The anti-whaling ship, the Steve Irwin, is in Hobart after pursuing a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd boat has clashed with the Japanase security boat, Shonan Maru 2, with both sides using water cannons.
Minor Indian ports have not only bucked global trends showing a record 26.4 per cent growth in cargo traffic in the first two quarters of the current fiscal, but are also on course to give stiff competition to counterpart major ports in terms of the volume of cargo handled.
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. announced that it has taken delivery of the Canary, a 58,000 dwt Supramax dry bulk vessel. The vessel has entered into a ten year time charter. The rate through January 2015 is $18,850 per day; thereafter the contract converts to a profit-sharing charter with a base rate of
During the past nine months of 2009, cruise ship activity witnessed, a significant improvement compared to the same period in 2008: it recorded the arrival of 609, 293 tourists across the sea and the anchoring of 288 cruise ships, whereas the traffic in the 150 other Mediterranean ports, decreased.
Somali pirates have released a Singapore-flagged container ship that had been held for nearly 10 weeks, an EU naval force in the area says. It said the Kota Wajar, which had 21 crew members, was freed off the Somali pirate stronghold of Haradere.
Haug Offshore Services reports that it has secured three new deals for Christmas. The company will deliver base services to Odfjell Drilling’s Supply unit at Mongstad. This contract which covers operation of Odfjell’s main storage, including the supply storages for Deep Sea Atlantic, Songa Trym and
Marina waste will be dumped on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island in a trial given the go-ahead by Maritime New Zealand… Source: The New Zealand Herald, December 28, 2009; [mappress]
Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (Adgas) on Mondaysigned an agreement for a $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) project with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co for the engineering, procurement and construction of an integrated gas development plant on Abu Dhabi’s Das Island… Source:g
Chinese engineering contractor Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600583) will build a large deepwater maritime engineering base in Zhuhai, a southern Chinese city, enhancing its deepwater oil and gas exploitation capacity and enabling it to gain more deepwater resources in South China Sea… S
NEALE Hollier believes as much as $100 million each year floats past the Gold Coast and is buoying the economies of other towns and cities because of the state of the Broadwater… Source:goldcoast.com,December 29,2009 [mappress]
Mercator Lines, India’s third-largest shipping company by tonnage, has been attempting to diversify its activities in a bid to minimise impact of the cyclical nature of the global shipping industry. In the last two years, the company has made investments in offshore, dredging and coal mining activit
The government will set up a specific zone for ship-breaking yards at Sitakunda in Chittagong to better protect environment and ensure safety standard, said Hassan Mahmud, state minister for environment, on Monday. He said a meeting of environment and forest, industries, and shipping ministries will
The technical evolution of offshore support vessels (OSV) has initiated Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to publish new rules for ships intended for offshore support and supply, offshore towing, well stimulation, and other specialized offshore services. On 1 January 2010, new Rules for Hull Structures of Off
China says it has rescued the 25 crew members of a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in October. No mention of ransom payment was made, despite reports that $4m (£2.5m) was delivered on Sunday.
