A big cargo ship was freed from a Columbia River sand bar, hours after being grounded there Monday. The ‘Hanjin Beijing’ was on its way from the Port of Portland, headed toward the Pacific Ocean and ultimately Japan, when it apparently ran aground on sand and a soft bottom a few miles downstream, ne
A massive container ship headed for Portland ran aground in the Columbia River on Monday. The 872-foot long Hajin Beijing became stuck near Columbia City, Wash.
Plans for a huge deep water terminal on Teesside, which could create up to 7,000 jobs, have taken a step closer with the removal of the last objection. PD Ports wants to create a £300m deep-sea container terminal at its current facility at Teesport.
Feadship De Vries Makkum has celebrated its royal status in style. In the pressence of 1100 guests, the Queen’s Commissioner of the Friesland province, Ed Nijpels, unveiled the crown on the roof of the ‘Makkum Cathedral’.
Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Dr. Salman Shah held important meetings with key Chinese bankers, financial institution and shipbuilding companies for cooperation in setting up two giant shipyards in Pakistan during his visit to China.
IT is 37 metres long, weighs 300 tonnes and has its own hot tub, dining room and bar. M4 is the biggest boat to grace this year’s Southampton Boat Show. For anyone not short of a few pounds, it can be all yours for a cool £11.5m. The latest mega-yacht from south coast boatbuilders Sunseeker [&hellip
Work on conserving material from the fire-damaged Cutty Sark is under way in Kent, so the whole ship can eventually return to its dry dock in London. Specialists working on the tea clipper have said their aim is conservation rather than restoration, because much of the original material remains.
A consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. will build 16 new berths in Singapore to enable the island state to handle growing demand for container capacity, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said Wednesday.
At Uljanik on 15th September 2007 from the slipway No. 2 there was launched Hull No. 468, known a ‘Morning Menad’. The ship is a 4,900 Car Truck Carrier of 12,300 DWT for the Buyer Ray Car Carriers Ltd. This is the fifth ship in a series of nine ships contracted with the company Ray […]
Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) today announced that it has extended its shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding Trading Company, Limited to include one more 8,530 TEU vessel, bringing the total number to five vessels. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by the Shanghai Jiangnan
The Lurssen mystery project made its appearance last week. Superyacht Times has the picstures. Not much is known about the 155-meter project besides the name Sunflower.
TEESSIDE group PD Ports today announced it had taken a major step forward in its plans to build a £300m deep sea container terminal at Teesport. The scheme, which could create 5,500 jobs, now has no outstanding objections and port bosses hope it will be given the green light by the Government.
This could have dramatic effects on both commercial shipping and hydrocarbon exploitation. Travel time for a container ship on the Rotterdam-Yokohama route could be cut by about a third by using the Arctic Ocean rather than the Suez Canal. Vessels could move freely, without the cumbersome – and expe
Ocean liner shipping services have been diversifying operations to include terminal operations, a trend in maritime trade that is becoming more predominant, port experts say. On Aug. 23, the Port of New Orleans gave authority to President and CEO Gary LaGrange to enter into a lease with a new joint
