The group pushing for a major expansion to Sydney Harbour says its major financial backer is down, but not necessarily out… Source:thechronicleherald,December 24,2009 [mappress]
In their constant drive to purge the skies of harmful emissions and particulate matter the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release this week confirming the standards required for marine diesel engines in the future. All types of carriers, from container shipping and bulk tankers
Manufacturers’ approvals of a number of Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s liferaft stations have now taken the number of approved stations to 30. Since Wilhelmsen Ships Service launched its Liferaft Exchange Programme one year ago, the programme has made approximately 10,000 liferaft exchanges and continue
The UK Government wants to put fishermen at the heart of European Union policy decisions under a reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), it emerged last night. Two days after the Scottish Government called for the CFP to be scrapped, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) put
Bolloré Africa Logistics, a unit of Bollore SA, may sign an agreement to manage the port of Berbera and oversee $700 million of upgrades to the facility in Somalia’s breakaway northern Somaliland region, Abdillahi Duale, the foreign minister, said.
The government should work harder to promote yachting, said a top economic planning official, yesterday. Shan Chi, deputy chairman of the Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development, made the appeal at a forum in Taipei discussing industry transitioning and upgrade.
STX Europe has entered into new contracts with Island Offshore for the building of two Platform Supply Vessels. The vessels will be built at STX Europe in Brevik, and are based on the same design as Island Commander and Island Chieftain delivered from STX Europe earlier this year. The vessels are sc
Dragon Oil has finalised a rig to carry out new drilling on its Cheleken contract area in the Caspian Sea offshore Turkmenistan. Dragon has contracted a rig from Naftna Industrija Srbije Naftegas (NIS) for two years for a new Cheleken drilling programme involving up to seven wells which will be carr
Silversea Cruises’ newest ultra-luxury ship, Silver Spirit, today welcomed guests aboard its maiden voyage, an 11-day “Holiday Spirit” cruise departing from Barcelona tomorrow and concluding in Lisbon after visiting Malaga, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Casablanca and Tangier. “The delivery of Silver Spirit is
At least 27 people are missing after a passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat in the Philippines, officials say. The wooden-hulled ferry and the fishing boat were carrying at least 73 people between them, when they collided in Manila Bay in the early hours.
A consortium made up of Spanish construction firm FCC, Mexico’s ICA and Costa Rica’s Meco has won a Panama Canal dry-excavation contract with a $267.8 million bid. The consortium beat out Belgium’s Jan de Nul, Brazil’s Oderbrecht and the ISC Panama consortium to win the contract, the second most luc
The Northrop and Johnson Sales Division will showcase the 143ft expedition styled superyacht Devotion at the Seattle Boat Show starting Friday, January 29 – Saturday, February 6, 2010. Devotion, centrally listed with Gregg Morton, is a Sterling Yachts hull originally created by Fexas and Bannenberg.
A joint U.S.-Sierra Leone patrol team queried, boarded, and found four fishing vessels in violation of fishing laws, resulting in accrued fines totaling more than $1.2 million, December 6-12, 2009. USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) embarked nine Sierra Leone maritime law enforcement members and five U.
The International Committee on Seafarers Welfare (ICSW) on December 21 that 2010 would see a renewed focus on seafarers welfare and quality employment standards. ICSW will be undertaking a series of major new projects based on the impetus provided by the IMO-designated “Year of the Seafarer” and the
