A co-operative hoping to restart the Swansea to Cork ferry has agreed the basis of a deal to buy a new ship. It needs to be ratified by creditors of the Finnish firm that used to own it. The service stopped three years ago. The consortium, which has raised over £2.5m from pledges by small […]
There are calls for Sark’s Chief Pleas to enforce a shipping law allowing only licensed vessels to transport cargo and passengers between Guernsey and Sark. The plea has come from Sark Shipping and Harbours & Pilotage Committees. It follows concerns that, despite being unlicensed, the Brecqhou Warri
Victims of the North Sea Super Puma helicopter crash in which 16 people died have been named by police. Eight came from north east Scotland, with the others from Angus, Dundee, Dumfries, Cumbernauld, Liverpool, Norwich, the West Midlands, and Latvia. The 15 people named by Grampian Police were aged
An offshore worker has died in an accident on a diving support vessel four miles off Aberdeen. The crewman on the Well Servicer, operated by Technip, was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary following the accident during sea trials. He was pronounced dead at the hospital later on Wednesday evening.
LR-Fairplay reports that a joint venture (JV) involving Peru and Portugal has won a concession to develop the Peruvian port of Paita. LR-Fairplay said the JV company Terminales Portuarios Euroandinos will reportedly pump US$277 million into the project to upgrade Paita’s box terminal. The consortium
Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a contract for the extension of the cruise terminal in Nassau. The contract was awarded by the Ministry of Works and Transport of the Government of the Bahamas, and is worth approximately US$44 million. The project will be completed in the first six months
Eighty-eight staff at a port in Kent have had their jobs transferred to other companies following a decision announced last summer. The landside services affected at the Port of Dover will now be undertaken by either P&O Ferries or labour supply company OCS. It follows the outsourcing by the port of
“It might seem surprising,” said Joel Rewa-Morgan, the Ericsson physiotherapist. “But they wanted to get straight back into it.” His words seemed inconceivable. It’s been barely four days since the Ericsson twins reached Rio de Janeiro at the front of the pack, the two quickest teams in a leg that m
Eight people have been killed and another eight are missing after a helicopter crashed in the sea off the north east Scottish coast. The Bond Super Puma aircraft was returning from an oil platform, just before 2pm, when it went down 35 miles from Aberdeenshire. A spokesperson for the Maritime and Co
Austal will build its largest catamaran to date following an order from Denmark’s Nordic Ferry Services for the design and construction of a 113 metre high speed vehicle-passenger ferry. The vessel will be built by Austal’s Western Australian workforce and is scheduled for delivery in 2011. Designed
Headlines – order book rises to € 2 billion; – 40% increase in revenue to € 1.1 billion; – profit before tax up to € 105 million; – four acquisitions completed of technology and engineering companies. Revenue and result IHC Merwede revenue increased sharply in 2008 to € 1.1 billion (2007: € 774 mill
It hasn’t been easy for the Telefonica Black and Delta Lloyd teams to watch the rest of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet race through the Southern Ocean to get to Rio. Both boats arrived here by ship, rather than under their own power, after suffering significant damage on the way to Qingdao during Leg 4.
The port of Dakar, Senegal, will launch a tender process to find a private operator for its newly built dry port before the end of June. The dry port, 2km inland from Dakar seaport, has been built by the port authority at a cost of CFA16bn (US$35m) to ease congestion at existing port facilities and
The port of Portland has announced that an investment of US$16.3m in federal stimulus grants will help to enhance its marine and aviation facilities. The port authority said the investment would help to create over 300 construction-related jobs and ensure the long-term effectiveness and efficiency o
