Two Glasgow shipyards have won a share of a £150m order to build three patrol boats for the Trinidad and Tobago navy. BVT’s yard at Scotstoun will build one vessel and carry out work on another, with the help of the Govan yard. The firm’s Portsmouth facility had been due to build all three ships [&h
When pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia surged last year, the world sent its navies to tackle the problem. But now that we are taking the pirates on, does anyone know what to do when we catch them?
China has heaped more criticism on the US after a weekend confrontation between the two countries’ vessels in the South China Sea. The US ship had behaved “like a spy” and China’s action was “totally within our rights”, state media quoted senior naval officials as saying.
The Port of Oakland has awarded a 50-year concession to a partnership comprising Ports America and Terminal Investments, an affiliate of Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s second largest shipping line.
A Cornish couple’s luxury world cruise has turned into a “disaster” after their ship developed a fault, their daughter told the BBC. Rex and Yvonne Buckingham, from Illogan, are passengers on the P&O liner Aurora. The ship has been stranded in Auckland, New Zealand since Friday after developing a “t
An extensive search operation is under way off an island in central Japan after two cargo ships collided. One, a South Korean vessel with 16 crew members, is missing and feared sunk. The other, a Panama-registered cargo ship, was damaged but its crew is safe. The Japanese Coast Guard has six patrol
China says a US Navy ship involved in Sunday’s confrontation with its vessels off the southern island of Hainan violated international and Chinese law. Foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said US complaints that five Chinese vessels had harassed the USNS Impeccable were “totally inaccurate”.
Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord says its turnover rose to Euros 1.896 million in 2008 (2007: 1.652 million). Net profits were Euros 190 million (2007: EUR 164 million), an increase of 16 per cent. Expressed as a percentage of turnover, profitability remained stable at 10 per cent of turnover. “Ou
Global engineering and project management group, AMEC, has secured a contract for maintenance and services of BP’s Unity platform in the North Sea. AMEC will provide management and technical resources to the platform over a period of four years.
AER Supply Ltd. announced that it has been named the exclusive distributor for BSCO, Inc. Fire Suppression Systems for 13 states. “The BSCO product line is in high demand in both the OEM and aftermarket sectors,” said Rudolf Mes, general manager for AER Supply. “As part of our company’s strategic in
Dutch maritime services company Smit International NV (SMIT.AE) is open to selling the entire company to peer Boskalis Westminster NV (BOKA.AE), Smit’s chief executive officer Ben Vree said Thursday. Vree, who was speaking after the firm reported a 2% increase in 2008 net profit, said he is “open to
An initiative of the ‘Safety Incentive Scheme’ fund of Heerema Vlissingen employees and customers. Heerema Vlissingen, one of the three construction yards of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) donated three diesel pumps to the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM) (Royal Dutch Rescue Comp
Port authorities and terminal operators have been warned about the rising number of fatal mooring injuries. The UK P&I Club said it has spent more than US$34m settling related insurance claims in the past 20 years.
The UK government has issued a statutory instrument confirming controversial new port rates regulations. Scheduled to come into force on 9 March, the statutory instrument confirms the collection and enforcement of backdated business rates liabilities.
