The Yachting division of Van der Velden® Marine Systems will exhibit at Seatec 2010, the 8th International Exhibition of Technologies, Subcontracting and Design for Boat, Megayachts and Ship Builders in Carrara, Italy (10 – 12 February 2010). Van der Velden can be found at the stand of Navaltecnica,
Container handling company Euromax has won the ‘Havenbeeld’ Port Trophy 2009, a new annual prize intended to encourage business owners in the port to pay attention to the appearance of their offices, industrial complex or terminal.
Up to 36,000 jobs will be created in the development of the London Gateway’s port site, which will be Europe’s largest combined deep sea port and logistics park. Of those jobs, 12,000 will be operational roles, but DP World – which is behind the £1.5bn development – could not confirm when they would
A Pakistani fishing vessel used by Somali pirates to hijack a UK-owned car-transporting ship has been freed in the Indian Ocean. The Shahbaig – also known as the Shazaib – was used as a “mother ship” from which smaller boats were launched to capture the UK-owned Asian Glory.
Veripos has extended its multi-source Differential GPS service for South Atlantic and Southern Ocean regions with the establishment of new reference station facilities in the Falkland Islands.
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE:ANW) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Verbeke Bunkering N.V., a physical supplier of marine fuel in the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (ARA) region, the world’s second largest bunkering market.
Special ceremonies at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard near Trieste, Italy, were held today to mark the float out of Cunard’s newest liner, Queen Elizabeth. Cunard’s President and Managing Director, Peter Shanks, was joined by 79-year-old Florence (Dennie) Farmer, who served as guest of honour at t
The Norwegian shipbuilding industry’s orders in 2009 decreased by 90 per cent compared to 2008. The new orders in 2009 was worth 1.3 billion Norwegian kroner. The lack of new orders will come to the surface in 2011 when most of the yards’ orders end.
Beginning next month, India will reportedly dredge the Ichhamati river in Bangladesh as the south Asian neighbours co-operate for the first time to protect rivers they share. Dredging of around 300 or more rivers in Bangladesh is urgently required, media reports say, resulting in heavy silting and r
THE Port of Brisbane Corporation has denied recent dredging of the shipping channel off Bribie Island will contribute to alarming erosion on the island. [mappress] Source:sunshinecoastdaily,January 6,2010
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced today it has commissioned the construction of a dive support vessel (DSV) with an estimated capital cost of $17 million. Oceaneering expects delivery of the 200 foot by 46 foot vessel from a U.S. Gulf Coast shipyard late in the fourth quarter of 2010. The ne
YORK, Maine —The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the Piscataqua River in Eliot, Maine, where tankers turn, according to Robert Green, an environmental specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in Portland. The Army Corps has applied to the DEP to move an estimated 100,
Major rivers and their tributaries in greater Sylhet region see gradual decrease in their flow due to massive siltation in absence of planned dredging, causing a serious threat to the environment in the region. [mappress] Source: The Daily Star, January 5, 2010
Four ships scheduled to load and offload containers of palm oil and chemicals were arranged berthing at Qasim International Container Terminal, Liquid Cargo Terminal and Engro Vopak Terminal, respectively on Sunday.
