The environmental impact assessment to expand container handling facilities at the Durban port into Bayhead could begin next month, once the Transnet board has weighed up all its options. The Bayhead plan would quadruple container handling capacity by digging out a new harbour basin in the southern
Canada is developing Pacific ports to compete with the U.S. ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as with the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, in an attempt to draw a substantial market share of the millions of containers expected to flow into North America in the coming decad
High speed and sleek style are the two main goals of this concept yacht from designer Andrew Hawley. The Hawley F140 looks like a stingray with sails, its downward-sloping bow a clear sign this yacht’s for flat-water speed not wave-punching – but the key innovation is its 30-degree canting keel with
A new generation of mega ships is set to take advantage of Panama’s $5.25bn expansion. With its cargo of green and orange, rust red and silver grey containers piled high, the Antwerpen Express seems too big to fit inside the locks at Miraflores on the Panama Canal. But under the gentle buffeting of
The first 400 kids in attendance at the 2007 Lake Union Boats Afloat Show, which gets underway on Wednesday, will be fitted with a free life jacket by members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. The life jacket giveaway is part of a Kid’s Water Safety Education Program at The Boats Afloat Show to hel
Three Dutchmen with strong links to the Volvo Ocean Race have set a unique record aboard an Extreme 40 catamaran for sailing around the offshore windmill park Egmond aan Zee in The Netherlands. Former Olympic Tornado champion, Herbert Dercksen, the driving force behind the Extreme 40 catamaran serie
Salthouse, Auckland (New Zealand) will be the shipyard building the new addition to the Mean Machine family. The announcement was made in Hyeres, France. It’s no secret that the Mean Machine team feels at home in various places all over the world, from Holland to Spain to New Zealand… so it’s been n
A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside. The vessel is believed to lie beneath 6ft to 10ft (2m to 3m) of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols, Wirral, where Vikings are known to have settled.
India’s largest dredging project is set to get underway at the Rewas Port, owned by Reliance group. It will surpass the Sethusamudram project in volume. Global bids are scheduled to be called next month for the project, which received environmental clearance in May this year.
An eight-member expert team from Holland-based Svitzer Salvage Company, which arrived here from Singapore on Friday, today succeeded in opening the hatch of the stranded Chinese merchant vessel ‘Chang Le Men’, which had been beached at 16 degrees about 1400 m from Tannirbavi beach.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has won a 775 billion won ($824.8 million) order to build five very large container ships, the South Korean firm said on Monday.
Explorers have discovered a century-old shipwrecked ore carrier that sank mysteriously during a Lake Superior storm less than two months after it was launched. All but one of the Cyprus’ 23 crew members died in the Oct. 11, 1907, disaster. A team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society fou
Disaster officials confirmed over the weekend that diesel oil continues to ooze out of a ship that sank off Romblon three decades ago but clarified that it poses no threat to local residents.
Local state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin has obtained the go-ahead from central Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province to invest in series of industrial parks and urban projects in Cam Ranh Bay. The company will invest in three industrial parks (IPs), including a Cam Ranh IP-township, the South Cam Ranh IP, and
