A Polish yacht which went missing on its way to Aberdeen carrying seven crew has been found off the Orkney islands. A search was launched for the Syrenka, when it failed to arrive in Aberdeen on Saturday after leaving Iceland.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has officially opened the New Zealand Oil & Gas managed Tui Area Oil Project. The ceremony coincided with the first shipment of approximately 300000 barrels of Tui crude oil being loaded aboard a tanker and shipped to its Australian buyer.
Total announces that the Snøhvit gas field, in the Barents Sea, has started production. Total holds an 18.4% interest in this project, which is operated by Statoil (33.53%). The partners are Petoro (30%), Gaz de France (12%), Hess (3.26%) and RWE-DEA (2.81%). Natural gas produced offshore in a 310-3
A Nato task force of ships from six nations has been conducting operations off the coast of Somalia, where there has been a upsurge in piracy this year. The ships – from Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and the US – are on the first circumnavigation of Africa by a Nato naval group
BRAZIL: The hull of the P-53 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) was berthed to the QUIP’s Quay in the Port of Rio Grande on Sept. 20, two and a half weeks after arriving off the coast of Rio Grande in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 4.
CKYH Alliance is to restructure the PNW butterfly service jointly operated by COSCON and HANJIN Shipping by adding port of call at the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, in its South loop section effective end October when the port starts operation.
A crisis is looming in superyacht crew availability as between 3000 and 4000 new recruits are sought to man yachts due to launch over the next 12 months. Industry research shows that there is US$1.5 billion worth of superyachts currently under construction but there are too few qualified crew to man
September 27 would witness the launch of direct container shipping services to North China region from Chennai Container Terminal (CCT). The new service called NCC would be operated on Thursdays.
The migrants are believed to be Palestinians from Gaza. The 15, suffering from exhaustion and hunger, were taken to hospitals in the city. Police said all 15 would be returned to Turkey.
The man who gave us his United Colours, who revolutionised the Italian fashion business, who made our brains hurt by yoking cheap and cheerful knitwear with images of Aids, prisoners on death row and babies trailing umbilical cords, has built the ship of his dreams. The boat is called Trib, and it i
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE: GNK) today announced that it has reached an agreement to extend the time charter for the Genco Wisdom, a 1997-built Handymax vessel currently on charter with Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd. The extended time charter will be for an additional 35 to 37.5 months
We are pleased to announce that the Namegiving Ceremony for the VOS Tracker took place today, Friday 21 September, at the Maaskant Shipyard in Stellendam , Netherlands . The VOS Tracker is an Emergency Rescue and Response Vessel (ERRV) for safety standby and is the first in a series of four vessels
Concordia Maritime’s product tanker Stena President – the fifth of ten tankers in the P-MAX series – will be named today. The naming ceremony will be held at Brodosplit Shipyard out-side Split. After her delivery, the tanker will enter a 10-year charter with Argo Shipping and transport oil from e.g.
The operator of a cargo vessel from India and its chief engineer have pleaded guilty to environmental crimes and obstruction of justice for covering up illegal dumping of oily waste at sea, the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday.
