Wärtsilä Corporation initiated in 2006 a two-year development project to test scrubbing plant for removing sulphur oxides (SOx) from the exhaust gases of marine diesel engines and oil-fired boilers. The project involves testing of scrubbing equipment on marine engines burning typical grades of heavy
Halifax Capital Bhd has won a shipbuilding contract worth about US$23.2mil from PT Kasih Industri Indonesia. Under the deal, the company would supply four sets of tugs and barges to Kasih Industri, it said in a stock exchange filing. The ships would be completed and delivered within two years, it sa
One of the first ever international boat shows to be held in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand has the boating industry in Thailand abuzz with excitement. Boat Thai is on track for a successful first show, having already garnered many firm reservations despite being more than three months away. Support
Spitzbergen, the North Pole and Alaska are all names that spark the imagination of people drawn by the lure of the Far North and the ice pack. Today this fascinating world is under threat. As part of the Fourth International Polar Year, Jean-Louis Etienne* will follow this route as he flies over the
A US navy ship helping hunt for an Indonesian plane missing for nine days should be able to shed light on whether metal objects found on the sea bed is wreckage, an Indonesian navy commander said yesterday. The search for an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 that vanished in bad weather on January 1 with 102
A group of Kilkeel fishermen who pleaded guilty to landing illegal fish have been given fines totalling almost £150,000 at Liverpool Crown Court. The court was told the men cheated the system of £400,000 by falsely claiming they had caught non-quota fish such as conger eel and gurnard.
The BBC television series Dragons’ Den seems an unlikely proving ground for a man-overboard detection system but not for mermaid id – recently adopted for the 2008-09 race. Back in August 2006, Matt Hazell was among a group of contestants who braved the Dragons’ Den, a show in which inventions are p
Noreq AS, leading Norwegian manufacturer of maritime equipment, has signed an agreement with Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for delivery of 19 lifeboats for use on their Semi Submersible Crane Vessel THIALF and HERMOD. The total contract value is approximately 1m Euros. The contract includes deliv
Container volume reaches the 7 million TEU mark. Good results for conventional/breakbulk and ro/ro. The port of Antwerp expects a final volume of 167.3 million tonnes for 2006. This represents growth of more than 4% in comparison with the figure of 160 million tonnes for 2005.
President Bush lifted a ban Tuesday on oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, an area known for its endangered whales and the world’s largest run of sockeye salmon. The action clears the way for the Interior Department to open 5.6 million acres of the fish-rich waters northwest of the Alaska
Details of more than 30 million people who emigrated from Britain by ship are being published on a new website. Previously family history researchers would have had to make the journey to The National Archives in London to read the lists.
A US Navy survey ship has joined the search for an Indonesian plane which went missing nine days ago. Oceanographic equipment is being used to determine whether metal objects found off the west coast of Sulawesi are from the wreckage of the airliner.
THE transport of plutonium off the Welsh coast was criticised by politicians last night as it emerged radioactive cargo was shipped through the Irish Sea on a former ferry. Safety fears over the use of the 20-year-old ship, Atlantic Osprey, on a journey between Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and Cherb
The Japan Whaling Association says the Sea Shepherd organisation’s anti-whaling ship, the Farley Mowat, is now a pirate vessel. The ship has reportedly lost its registration in Belize and is without a flag.
