VERMILION, Ohio – The wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Erie. Thomas Kowalczk, an amateur shipwreck prospector, used sonar on his boat to discover the General Anthony Wayne in 50 feet of water, about 12 kilometres north of
The stranded bulk carrier Pasha Bulker is ‘standing up well’ off a Newcastle beach, after a major storm forecast to hit the NSW coast overnight moved out to sea. ‘It wasn’t as bad as what we expected,’ Newcastle Port Corporation spokesman Keith Powell said.
The America’s Cup Match is about to begin. After more than two months of racing this year, Emirates Team New Zealand has won the Louis Vuitton Cup, and will now face off against the Defender, Alinghi, for the America’s Cup.
Aker Kvaerner has signed a contract for delivery of equipment and modifications to Aker Floating Production’s SMART 1 Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel. This new contract is an amendment to a contract awarded in November 2006 for both SMART 1 and 2 vessels.
Vietnamese largest shipbuilder, the state-run Vinashin, delivered Tuesday two 53,000 ton container ships to the UK’s Graig Investment. The 190m-long vessels were built by two Vinashin subsidiaries – Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Company and Ha Long Shipbuilding Company.
SHANGHAI: Cosco Group, China’s premier shipping conglomerate, has signed a deal with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd to build a shipyard in northeast China
A channel at China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port is being deepened to allow 300,000-ton ships, making it the deepest man-made channel in the country on completion. The government is investing 500 million yuan in dredging the Xiazhimen channel to 22.5 meters below the possible lowest tide height, and the ch
A tanker transporting oil for PETEC Co. yesterday collided with a cargo ship owned by Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin Group), causing an oil spill in the Nha Be River in HCMC.
Piraeus, Greece – Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc. a provider of global marine transportation services focusing on product tankers announced today that it has signed shipbuilding contracts with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, a preeminent shipyard, in South Korea, to construct and acquire five newbuilding
Imtech N.V. (technische dienstverlening) maakt bekend dat de maritieme opdrachtenportefeuille in China snel toeneemt. Ten opzichte van twee jaar geleden is sprake van een groei van ruim 50 procent. Momenteel telt de Chinese orderportefeuille voor het verzorgen van technologische oplossingen ruim 240
Sky Petroleum, Inc. (OTCBB: SKPI), an oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce that Crescent Petroleum Company International Limited (‘Crescent’), the operator of the Mubarak Field, has informed the company that the Mubarak K2 ST3 well is currently drilling at a depth of approximately
Chinese maritime officials on Tuesday blamed the crew of a Chinese container ship for a collision with a Korean vessel that left six seamen dead and ten missing last month. The Ministry of Communications revealed its findings at a press conference in Beijing, saying the ‘Jinsheng’ was primarily resp
Calgary, Alberta – Mr. John C.S. Lau, President & Chief Executive Officer of Husky Energy Inc., announced today that Husky has been awarded exploration licenses on Block 5 (2007-22) and Block 7 (2007-24) from the West Disko 2006 Licencing Round, offshore Greenland.
Australia is to buy three Spanish-designed warships and two large Spanish landing ships, Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed. As reported in The Age today, Melbourne will benefit most, with the superstructure and fitout on the massive warships to be completed at the Williamstwown shipyards, cre
