Cosco Pacific Ltd, Asia’s third-largest container-terminal operator, said one of its ventures and Pan Asia International Shipping Ltd. will form a $1 billion container terminal operator in China to handle growing trade.
Island Global Yachting (IGY), one of the world’s premier owners, developers and managers of luxury marinas and yachting lifestyle destinations and Nautical Center Prgin (NCP), one of Croatia’s leading marine industry companies, announced today a joint venture to develop Croatia’s first dedicated meg
A cargo ship with 30 Russian crew and six passengers sank in the Sea of Japan on Sunday, and 22 have been rescued, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported. The vessel sank during a storm 180 miles (288 kilometers) off Russia’s far eastern port of Nakhodka in the morning
On October 30th 2007, the second Damen Container Feeder 800 out of a series of 6 vessels was handed over to HS Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG MS ‘Karin Schepers’, a single ship company under management of HS Schiffahrt, Haren, Ems Germany. The next day, she left the building yard, Damen Shipyards Galati,
A crew member has died after falling down a flight of stairs on a boat, according to police. The 48-year-old man was on board a boat berthed at Greenhead in Lerwick, Shetland, when the accident happened.
Salmon spawning in the River Taff are being threatened by poachers, the Environment Agency has claimed. Officers took some of the fish out of Blackweir pool in Cardiff’s Bute Park on Friday in order to transfer them to the agency’s hatchery in Brecon.
Palm Beach County’s marine industry wants a bigger piece of the $732 million South Florida superyacht market. Every time one of those sleek, luxurious yachts glitters and glides through South Florida waters, piles of cash pour from its decks. From service to dockage, supplies to crew, megayachts spe
A World War II ship that served for decades as a training vessel for Texas A&M University sea cadets was sunk in open waters off the Texas coast Saturday, launching its new mission as an underwater habitat and diving destination.
Communication has been lost with a Comoran-flagged cargo ship captured by pirates off the Somali coast last month, raising fears of the crew safety, a maritime monitoring group said on Saturday. The MV Al Marjan, with 22 mostly Asian crew members on board, was seized on October 19 as it sailed to Mo
Total announces a new oil discovery in the ultra-deep offshore Mer Très Profonde Sud (MTPS) block, which lies approximately 185 kilometres offshore the Republic of the Congo in a water depth of 2,120 metres. Drilled to a total depth of 4,110 metres, the Persée Nord Est Marine-1 discovery well found
Taisun, the world’s largest crane, capable of lifting 20,000 metric tons and currently undergoing testing and commissioning, was planned, designed and managed end-to-end using Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions.
Aker Kvaerner has helped fund a mobile water well drilling rig that will supply safe water for the community of Cabinda, Angola. The rig was handed over to the local community in an official ceremony in Cabinda in Angola last weekend.
Greenpeace blockaded an Indonesian tanker carrying palm oil for export on Friday as it tried to leave port on Sumatra for a second day, an activist said. “What we’ve done is we’ve anchored off the ship which is at berth and there’s not enough room for it to be able to leave its berth,’ said [&hellip
In a welcome development, the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), which is continuing its supremacy over other ports in cargo handling, is attracting a large number of Panamax vessels after the first phase of deepening in Outer Harbour. The VPT, which was handling vessels with 195 metres LOA (length ove
