It cost $500,000 and was finished only last month, but the newly-dredged Brisbane Water channel near Ettalong Beach is already silting up again… [mappress] Source: Press Advocate, March 5, 2010
Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the North Sea island’s coastal protection network… [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, March 4, 2010
While most yards endured their hardest 12 months in living memory, one private Chinese yard continued to impress in 2009. Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries saw operating income soar more than 60% last year to RMB10bn ($1.5bn) as orders continued to flood in.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) navy is all set to dispatch two ships to the Gulf of Aden on Thursday to aid international efforts to combat piracy off the waters near Somalia, a senior naval commander told reporters here on Wednesday.
• Harbour Towage: slow-down mainly compensated by repositioning of vessels. • Terminals achieves sharp profit growth caused by new contracts. • Salvage result at a high level due to settlement prior year cases. • Transport activities contribute well. • Heavy Lift fleet utilisation lower than previou
Premier Colin Barnett has unveiled plans for a new deepwater port in the Pilbara that would be operating by 2015… [mappress] Source: The West Australian, March 4, 2010
When an inspection on a 183 metre chemical tanker revealed that the rope guard had been severely damaged by an anchor chain, the new owners asked Hydrex to remove the old rope guard and replace it with a new one while the ship was at anchorage in Limassol. A team of Hydrex diver-technicians was imme
London-listed Chariot Oil and Gas has reported a big upgrade to possible reserves offshore Namibia from 3.3 Bn bbl to more than 8.5 Bn bbl following the interpretation and processing of 3,000 line km of 2D seismic data acquired by Seabird Exploration in the second half of last year.
2010 is shaping up to be the best cruise season ever, according to the Cruise Newfoundland and Labrador (Cruise NL) group. Over 83,000 passengers and crew are scheduled to call on 50 provincial ports on 27 ships. Inaugural calls for 2010 include the AIDAluna, Amadea, Arcadia, Poesia Seven Seas Voyag
Shipowners may run into both heavy fines and imprisonment as a consequence of lacking international rules for organic load in sewage plants. Many sewage plants may simply be too small. The issue will be a hot topic at the upcoming Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) conference in London 10-
Croatia’s Brodosplit Shipyard has recently reported a US$12 million loss despite building a vessel which was ranked amongst the top ships of 2009 by Baird Publications. In 2009, the Brodosplit Shipyard delivered ‘Stena Progress’ Concordia Maritime, Sweden.
Various sources report that the Indian government’s plan for constructing new ports and expanding existing ones to support an expected increase in traffic is likely to create “huge demand” for capital and maintenance dredging in India.
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container-shipping line, reported its first annual loss since at least six decades and said it will be limited to a “modest” profit in 2010 because of inadequate price increases. Maersk fell the most in almost four months in Copenhagen trading af
THE $27.8 million Albany Waterfront project is well on track with the protective outer breakwater already finished… [mappress] Source:albany,March 4,2010;
