Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has received an additional order from The Port of Hamburg’s biggest container terminal operator, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA). Kalmar will supply nine more automatic stacking cranes (ASC) for the second phase
Dame Ellen MacArthur believes her solo round-the-world record will be broken by one of two Frenchmen this winter. Francis Joyon, 51, set sail from Brest last Friday in an attempt to regain the record taken from him by MacArthur in February 2005.
Alang in Gujarat is swinging back to life. Once world’s largest ship demolition centre, now a marginal player, Alang is slowly breathing life into itself, thanks to over two dozen junk ships that were beached recently for breaking, after an unusually long break.
Dredging concern Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has placed an order with shipyard IHC Holland for the construction of two innovative 12,000m³ hoppers. The order is part of the multi-year fleet expansion program at Boskalis. The ships will be completed in December 2009 and April 2011. The order involv
All 154 passengers and crew of a cruise ship that sank in Antarctic waters have now been flown to safety in mainland Chile. The MS Explorer went down after hitting an iceberg and the passengers spent several hours in lifeboats in sub-zero temperatures.
On 1st October 2007, the Blizzard, a 20 metre, schooner rigged, aluminium expedition sailing yacht, set sail from Hobart across the Southern Ocean to Puerto Montt on the west coast of Chile. En route she called in at the remote and uninhabited New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands.
A husband and wife from Shropshire are preparing to return home after being rescued from a cruise ship which sank in the Antarctic. Brian and Gillian Lee from School Grove, Oakengates, in Telford were on the M/S Explorer when it began taking on water on Friday.
We refer to the third quarter report released on November 15, 2007. Frontline Ltd. is trading ex-dividend of a cash dividend of $1.50 per share today November 26, 2007. The record date is November 28, 2007, and the dividend will be paid on or about December 12, 2007.
In the forecast presented in the third quarter report it was stated that freight levels of USD 28,000 per day in the product tanker market were required to meet the forecasted result of MSEK 65. The expected market upturn has not materialized and the freight levels have so far been substantially low
All of the participants in the first edition of the Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup are now moored in the Marina de Santa Cruz in Tenerife ready for tomorrow’s start. Racing, which will take place under IRC handicap, will take the seven competing yachts from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of
She’s for sale through Burgess for $34,450,000. The listing has some beautiful interior shots of this amazingly lavish 269-foot yacht. The yacht has accommodations for 28 in one master cabin, nine double cabins and four twin cabins.
A Japanese bank, in a move to decongest the port of Mombasa has extended a Ksh16 billion (about US$228.5 million) loan agreement to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) for construction of a three-phase second container terminal at the Port of Mombasa.
Multinational port operator Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has opened its US$244mn phase 1 expansion of the LCT container terminal at Lázaro Cárdenas port in western Mexican state Michoacán, HPH announced.
Euroseas Ltd., an owner and operator of drybulk and container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, announced today it will release its third quarter and nine month results for the period ended September 30, 2007, on Thursday, November 29, 200
