The Pentagon has accused Chinese fishing boats of “dangerous” manoeuvres near a US Navy surveillance ship in the Yellow Sea last week. Two boats came within 30 yards (27 metres) of the USNS Victorious in an “unsafe and dangerous” fashion on Friday, a statement said. Correspondents say the US respons
Offshore Solutions B.V. is celebrating after winning the Offshore Technology Conference 2009 Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award (BMEA) for the design and operation of its Offshore Access System (OAS). Designed to operate in 2.5 metre Hs (significant wave height) sea states, the OA
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded type approval for its electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS) by the U.K. certification authority, QinetiQ. The type-approval certificate was granted for Sperry Marine’s VisionMaster FT™ ECDIS pr
Merit AS, of Istanbul, Turkey, has purchased the 80-percent share of Moonen Yachts Holding BV formerly owned by the Scottish Snowie family. The remaining 20 percent is owned by Emile Bilterijst, who continues to lead the company as Managing Partner. Merit AS, founded in 1989, specializes in Transpor
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded contracts of more than € 100 million in the United States and in Spain. In the United States a contract has been awarded by the Fox River Cleanup Group to desand and dewater PCB bearing river sediment of the Fox River in Wisconsin (USA). The project i
Brazil government managed energy company Petrobras on Friday lifted the first sub-salt oil from the massive, ultra-deep, offshore Tupi field in the Santos basin, an action Brazil’s government hopes will launch a new era for Latin America’s largest economy. “It is a historic moment, a new era” said P
Firefighters have put out a blaze on a Royal Navy helicopter carrier at Falmouth docks in Cornwall. The fire is believed to have started when a number of rags caught fire on the lower decks of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus. Firefighters investigated using breathing apparatus, a water jet and a t
A South Korean navy warship has foiled a pirate attack on a North Korean cargo ship off Somalia’s coast, military officials in Seoul say. They say the South Korean destroyer sent a helicopter with snipers on board to drive away a pirate boat that was chasing the North Korean freighter. Seoul says th
A Greek-owned ship with a Ukrainian crew has been hijacked by Somali pirates south-west of the Seychelles, a seafarers’ group says. It came hours after a Portuguese warship thwarted an attack on a Norwegian vessel in the Gulf of Aden. The warship, part of a Nato patrol, destroyed explosives its crew
A row has broken out over the building of a new £40m outer harbour scheme for a port in Norfolk. The Great Yarmouth Port Users Association said the scheme would bring “little benefit” to the town which would struggle with increased traffic. The largest ship ever to dock at the new EastPort outer har
Olympic legend Marcelo Ferreira has confirmed he will rejoin Delta Lloyd for the Boston in-port race on Saturday. The popular Brazilian trimmer made an immediate impact on his last outing with the team, helping Roberto Bermudez’s rejuvenated crew to a stunning third-place result when they raced arou
The Oceangoing vessels division of Van der Velden Marine Systems will feature its latest developments at Nor-Shipping 2009 which will be held on 9 – 12 June 2009, in Oslo, Norway. The booth of Van der Velden is situated in Hall C at stand number C02-21. Highlights of its presentation will include th
The new IMO-convention for “Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships” aims to prevent hazardous working conditions and to ensure environmental protection during ship recycling operations. It is going to be adopted at a diplomatic conference in Hong Kong this month. Expected to come into for
PortCalls Philippines and arl-shipping.com Limited have released an online schedule inquiry facility embedded into the PortCalls web-site, portcalls.com, allowing the Philippine transport community to perform self-service schedule inquiries on international sailings to and from two key Philippine po
