A giant pink spiny lobster has been found off the Cornish coast. The 59.5cm (23in) long crustacean, nicknamed Poseidon, is five times larger than normal spiny lobsters and needs two people to pick him up safely.
Cross-channel border patrols have been strengthened to prevent illegal immigrants coming to Britain from France, says the Home Office. Officials said more than 1,300 stowaways were prevented from leaving the French port of Cherbourg in July.
The European Commission has banned the fishing of endangered bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean for the rest of the year. The move was taken to curb over-fishing and dwindling stocks of fish, after the EU reached its 2007 quota.
Vietnam must better co-ordinate the planning and construction of an integrated seaport network to handle the country’s rapid trade growth, according to container transportation leader APL. The company was providing an update of the findings outlined in a research paper, entitled: “Vietnam Transporta
Höegh LNG today announced that it has entered into agreements with major contractors and formally started the engineering and design for its first LNG FPSO Unit (Floating Production Storage and Offloading), with the objective to design and construct the worlds’ first LNG FPSO.
COSCO Group and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed a strategic agreement in Beijing. Presided by COSCO’s Group Vice President Zhang Liang, the signing ceremony was witnessed by Capt. Wei Jiafu, President & CEO of COSCO Group, Fu Chengyu, President of CNOOC, and Luo Han, Vice Pres
On saterday September 15th, 2007 the launching was taking place of the first vessel of the type CF 7200. Madam Yulia Tymoshenko, head of the Fatherland Party and former President of Ukraine, did act in the launching ceremony among the watching eye of several hundred spectators.
Stealthgas Inc., a ship-owning company serving the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector of the international shipping industry, announced today that it has entered into new time charter agreements for M/V ‘Gas Sophie’, M/V ‘Gas Czar’ and M/V ‘Gas Nemesis’. In addition, the Company has entered into a
The Matthew, the replica of the ship John Cabot sailed from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1496, will visit Gloucester Docks for the first time. The square-rigged caravel is being used in sequences for a television adaptation of a Terry Pratchett comic fantasy book being filmed in the docks.
Shipbuilding companies APJ Bharti Shipyard and Essar have expressed interest in setting up two shipyards in West Bengal. Principal industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen said the representatives of the two companies had made presentations to the state government in this regard.
On 15 September 2007, the ‘Norwegian Gem’ was transported from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg along the River Ems to the North Sea. The latest luxury liner in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet will be powered by five 12V48/60B engines from MAN Diesel, the Augsburg-based large-bore diesel engine speci
Paragon Shipping Inc. (Nasdaq: PRGN) has announced that it has taken delivery of the third of the three drybulk carriers that it had contracted to acquire using the net proceeds of its recent public offering together with bank borrowings.
Incheon, South Korea’s second-biggest port, plans a 2 trillion won, or $2.2 billion, expansion to handle rising trade with China. The state-run Incheon Port Authority expects to build a new container pier by 2013 to more than triple container cargo volumes, Suh Jung Ho, the port operator’s chief exe
The historic Russian port city of St Petersburg has been officially announced as the race finish for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. This will be the first time in the race’s 34-year history that the fleet will visit a Russian port and follows the confirmation in late May that Russia will have its own
