Animal rights campaigners are calling for a clampdown on people fishing for crabs in the Mersey. The Vicky Moore Foundation, based in Southport, has said some of those catching shore crabs in the marina at New Brighton are treating them as toys.
A replica Viking ship has pulled into Dublin nearly 1,000 years after the original sank off Denmark’s coast. The arrival of the Sea Stallion in Dublin’s harbour on Tuesday capped a 1,700km (1,000 mile) journey across the waters of northern Europe.
The Port of Waterford Company has announced that Waterford Container Terminal at Belview handled a record throughput of containers last year. As a result, the Port succeeded in generating almost h12m in revenues and over h3.1m in operating profits.
Despite the tough conditions that have so far ravaged the fleet in this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race, the front-runners, Rambler and ICAP Leopard, were last night flying back from the Rock towards Plymouth at record-breaking pace.
The Port of Seattle beat both its expectations and last year’s performance during the second quarter of 2007, despite only a slight increase in the number of passengers flying through Sea-Tac Airport and a moderate decline in the volume of containers shipped through the seaport’s four major containe
Owners of a ship that ran aground on an Aleutian Island will plead guilty to illegally discharging its cargo and have agreed to pay a hefty fine, a U.S. attorney said Tuesday. IMC Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. (IMC) of Singapore will also plead guilty to killing hundreds of seabirds when its 738-foot freig
The State Ports Authority said Tuesday that volume at its Charleston-area container terminals slipped nearly 5 percent in its latest fiscal year, putting it further behind its two top Southeastern rivals.
Just under two years after Jamaica and Maersk signed a five-year contract to use the Kingston Container Terminal as a regional trans-shipment hub, the Danish shipping line says it will drop direct calls to Jamaica, starting in October. The move is part of a reduction Maersk will implement on its wee
More than half of the competitors have pulled out of the Fastnet yacht race because of adverse weather. Some suffered damage off the Dorset and Devon coasts and by Tuesday afternoon 149 boats were forced to retire.
Aker Yards has entered into contracts with Solstad Offshore ASA for building of one Platform Supply/ ROV Vessel of Aker PSV/ROV 06 CD design and one Offshore Subsea Construction and Maintenance Vessel of Aker OSCV 06 L design. The total value of the contracts is approximately NOK 1,4 billion. Delive
Eitzen Chemical ASA (OSE: ECHEM) today reported its 2nd quarter 2007 results. The Company posted EBITDA of USD 48.1 million, increasing from USD 38.9 million in the previous quarter. Net profit for the quarter was USD 16.2 million compared to USD 0.8 million in the first quarter.
DryShips Inc.,(NASDAQ: DRYS) announced today that it will release its results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2007, after the market closes in New York on Tuesday August 21, 2007. DryShips’ management team will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 22, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.,
POSCO, the world’s third-largest steel maker, is considering developing an extensive steel project in Vietnam using investment capital amounting to US$4.5 billion, the Ministry of Planning and Investment revealed.
With a proven track record in delivery of smaller tugs, Sapor Shipyard of Sibu in Sarawak East Malaysia, is demonstrating an ability to build larger anchor handling tugs to meet the demands of the Malaysian petroleum industry.
