Asia’s first 10,000 teu (20-foot equivalent unit) container ship, classed by Lloyd’s Register, was christened today at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) yard in Ulsan just days before its scheduled delivery to the China Ocean Shipping Group (COSCO), China’s biggest shipping line.
Until the early 1990s, crews on barges and boats chugging down China’s 2,400-year-old Grand Canal did not need familiar landmarks to tell them they were approaching the scenic city of Hangzhou. They could smell it. “The water was black,” said Zhu Jianbai, assistant director of the city government’s
A major oil pipeline has burst in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada, causing homes to be evacuated and threatening the city’s port. Witnesses described crude oil shooting out of the burst pipe. The oil then ran downhill and into an ocean inlet before the pipeline’s flow was shut off.
A 35-year-old man has been airlifted to safety after breaking his ankle while fishing on rocks in Fife. The holidaymaker had been on rocks behind the St Andrews Aquarium when he fell at 0345 BST.
A picture of two people thought to have died in a boating accident off the coast of the Isle of Wight has been released to help jog people’s memory. Heather Jayne Harris, 20, and Richard Perry, 28, from the West Midlands, are thought to have fallen overboard from their inflatable dinghy last Wednesd
During a press conference Monday (July 23rd) in Casablanca, the A.P. Moller Maersk Group for Maritime Transport and Port Management announced the opening of a new container terminal in Tangier port on the Mediterranean Sea. The new terminal cost 150 million euros to build and can handle 2 million 20
Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, has signed an innovative 10-year contract with the UK Ministry of Defence worth £1 billion to help keep Royal Navy submarines at sea.
Having cross the starting line at Ambrose light at 18h 02′ 55′ Gmt Thursday July 19 near New York bay, maxi trimaran Groupama 3 has literally run the 2 925 miles of the Atlantic passage. She has set a new reference time of 4d 03h 57′ 54′.
Sdn Bhd hopes that with the revival of double-tracking project, parallel measures be initiated to expand rail terminal handling capacity linking its container terminal to the national grid. “Double-tracking rail link to Northport will expand rail terminal handling capacity at the port and help draw
Publicly listed PT Samudera Indonesia will build a container terminal worth Rp375 billion at Samarinda port, East Kalimantan, PT Samudera Indonesia`s Corporate Secretary Diana P Iskandar said here on Tuesday. The terminal will be operated by PT Samudera Indonesia itself and for this purpose it has e
The Volvo Trophy for the best overall national team performance at the ISAF Youth World Championships has been awarded to Australia (259 points) with Denmark second (248) and New Zealand third (230 points). Great Britain finished sixth.
After the sale of the Wally 101 last April and the Wally 100.3 two weeks ago, the largest Wally so far is signed: the Wally 50m, a blue-water sloop combining all the comforts and amenities of a mega yacht with the Wally performance and ease of handling as requested by the owner.
Royal Huisman’s latest launch has already turned heads in Valencia and Palma. Meteor was launched in May 2007, to the delight of her owners who had set a demanding brief for the yard and for naval architects Gerard Dijkstra and Partners in collaboration with John G. Alden.
Mean Machine have announced the withdrawal of their entry for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 after failing to secure the full funding for their campaign. The Dutch syndicate, headed by Peter de Ridder, had been in negotiations with a number of potential backers but with the start of the next event in
