A ship sank Friday in the Thousand Islands regency, a police report revealed Monday.
Maersk Contractors has awarded Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. a contract for an FPSO vessel. Maersk begins its second $3-billion investment program with the award of the FPSO, having already placed $3 billion worth of orders.
KBR yesterday announced that it has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company, Ltd. (DSME) to provide topsides engineering, procurement and interface design services for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel on the Pazflor project, operated b
In order to get acquainted with Dutch exporting and internationally operating companies, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade, Mr Frank Heemskerk, visited Damen Shipyards Gorinchem on 30 January 2008.
The spokesman of a group of gunmen who hijacked two ships off of Somalia’s northeastern coast has said that they are not pirates. The man, who did not identify himself, contacted Radio Garowe, a station based in the regional capital of the semiautonomous state of Puntland.
Dutch water industry experts on Monday backed proposals to build several off-shore islands to protect the nation’s coast, much of which lies below sea-level, from rising seas caused by global warming.
A new £6m fresh produce terminal, with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes, will be built in the Port of Liverpool to handle fruit and vegetable imports destined for the north of England. The 90,000 sq ft cool store, called Liverpool Produce Terminal (LPT), will employ 30 full-time staff and is expected to b
BP today announced an increase of 25 per cent in its quarterly dividend, taking it to a level 31 per cent higher than a year ago. Chief Executive Tony Hayward said the rise reflected the company’s increasingly robust view of the future and greater confidence in its ability to deliver sustained divid
Carigali-PTTEPI Operating Co. Sdn Bhd (CPOC) on Jan. 31 awarded Malaysia’s M3nergy Bhd a contract for the charter of a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) to be deployed in the joint development area (JDA) Block B-17 field development project in the Gulf of Thailand.
New research from Energy Futures finds that ports for container ships are among the biggest sources of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and that recent efforts to curb pollution are not yet making a noticeable difference.
A cargo ship damaged in a storm some 200 miles west of the Isles of Scilly is still in an estuary in Cornwall waiting to be brought to harbour. Marine surveyors and representatives of the owners of the Horncliff, which is moored in the Fal Estuary off Falmouth, have been inspecting the vessel.
An underwater cable connecting Jersey to the UK has been damaged. Jersey Telecoms (JT) said the cable was damaged on Thursday when, during stormy conditions, a ship caught the cable with its anchor.
A 550-passenger cruise ship will be based for a season at Adelaide’s Outer Harbour for the first time early next year, in what the South Australian government says is a coup for the state. The MV Funchal, owned by Classic International Cruises, will arrive in late January 2009, visiting local attrac
Reservations for the 2010 inaugural World Cruise of the new, ultra luxury cruise vessel Seabourn Odyssey opened on February 4, 2008. The 108-day voyage departs from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on January 5, 2010. A 92-day, west coast alternative version departs Los Angeles, California on January 21.
