US ports are finding that they have to come up with increasing amounts of money to keep pace with demands from shipping lines serving the Pacific route, or jeopardise partnerships with Chinese and other Asian investors.
The US and Indian governments have both issued warnings to their vessels engaged in trade off the east coast of Africa to take precautions against an expected increase in pirate activity between now and May, a period of calm weather between monsoon seasons that is optimal for sailing, and the demons
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) last week agreed to establish an expert group to prepare a feasibility study on market-based instruments to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ships. A meeting of the UN agency’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) said the new group will study
PetroChina plans to spend at least US $60 billion in the next decade on overseas acquisitions, challenging Exxon Mobil Corp and BP Plc in the race to control oil and gas fields. “Ten years ago, PetroChina was a State-owned oil company, but now we have a goal of becoming an international, integrated
On March 26, Crowley Maritime Corporation christened the eighth of 10 new 185,000-barrel Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB) tank vessels that the company will take delivery of by 2011. The vessels christened were the tug Achievement and barge 650-8.
Huisman, the Dutch-based specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has secured a new contract with Centrica and MPI Offshore Limited to supply and install a new, state-of-the-art 600mt Wind Turbine Installation Crane onboard the Wind Turbine Installation Vessel “MPI Resolution”. The cran
Sydney Ports has again achieved record container throughput, with Port Botany’s container volumes reaching over 147,400 TEU in February 2010, an increase of 25.4 percent on the same month last year. Trade performance for the YTD (year to date) February 2009/10 was 1.301 million TEU, up 4.3 percent o
US ports are finding that they have to come up with increasing amounts of money to keep pace with demands from shipping lines serving the Pacific route, or jeopardise partnerships with Chinese and other Asian investors. Source:Cargo News Asia,March 31,2010
JOB DESCRIPTION: The work consists of maintenance dredging of Richmond Inner & Outer Harbor Channel of approximately 500,000 cubic yards of materials, to provide a project authorized depth, -38 feet plus 1 foot allowable paid over-depth for the Inner Harbor Channel and… [mappress] Source:fbo.gov,Mar
Tuesday 30th March 2010 Jongert Shipyard launched MY Lucia-M, a 39 metres motor yacht type 3900MY. Lucia-M is the first motor yacht of these dimensions ever built by Jongert. The motor yacht line has been developed by the yard at the specific request of several customers who appreciate the design of
Bellingham Marine New Zealand and the Skeggs Group of New Zealand have completed the construction of a NZ$2m floating jetty at Port Denarau Marina on Fiji’s west coast. Designed to address the growing need for superyacht berthing facilities in the Fijian islands, the new jetty has 46 slips from 12m-
THE Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) is running a pilot project investigating the use of catch quotas to reduce discards in the North Sea. Cefas fisheries observers and remote electronic monitoring (REM) equipment, including CCTV, will be used to document and quantify
The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia’s coast, administration officials said Wednesday. The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretar
CHINA’s largest water transport project, Yangtze River Mouth’s deepwater channel’s phase three rectification, has passed the state inspection,dredging has been successfully done and the channel has been opened for trial operations, reports Xinhua. [mappress] Source:Xinhua,March 31,2010;
