Fishermen on the east coast of Yorkshire are holding talks in London in a bid to resolve a bitter dispute with French trawler skippers. The Bridlington-based lobster fishermen claim boats from Boulogne have been trawling their fishing grounds, destroying their lines of pots.
The U.S. Transportation secretary will check in on final preparations for free ferry service across the Bay of St. Louis, slated to start Wednesday. Mary Peters should get to see the boat, which was expected to leave Bayou La Batre, Ala., Monday at midnight for the commute to its new 1.6-mile route
NEARLY three centuries ago, the notorious pirate Blackbeard ran aground in his ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, off what is now a North Carolina beach town. This month, a crew of 13 is heading out to sea each day, hoping for clear-enough weather to dive the 20 to 25ft to the ocean bottom to excavate
Russian authorities have extended until Tuesday night a search for the missing sailors from the Sinegorye cargo ship that sank in the West Pacific a week ago, rescuers in Vladivostok said Tuesday.
The Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation on October 30 began building a 104,000-tonne oil tanker named “Dung Quat 01”, the largest of its kind built in Vietnam so far. The construction, which uses technology from Poland, will be supervised by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
On Oct.30, at Quay A, a naming ceremony was held for H.4441, a 4,300 Unit PCTC for A.P.Moller. H.4441 was named
Four foreign dredging companies have been shortlisted by the Jawaharlal Nehru port to execute its Rs 8 billion project for dredging the harbour entrance channel, reports Business Line. This is seen as another indication that overseas companies are steadily gaining ground in the domestic dredging mar
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On Oct. 30, Capt. Wei Jiafu, President and CEO of COSCO Group, met with Hon. Mr. Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the 93-year-old retired Chairman of AP Moller-Maersk Group and Mr. Michael P. Rasmussen, Chairman of AP Moller-Maersk Group and their delegation.
An affiliate of Vietnam shipbuilding giant Vinashin Monday started work on the first of three 105,000 oil tankers under a contract last July with the state-run oil giant PetroVietnam. The US$56 million freighter to be 245m-long, 43m-wide and 20m-height will be built by Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industr
The Yokohama District Court ordered Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay a combined 210 million yen in damages Monday to former employees who say they contracted pneumoconiosis by working at its shipyards. It is the first ruling on a case involving lung disease linked to employment at a shipyard, a
A new passenger ferry beginning service this week between Meridian and Sapelo Island is sure to make special deliveries. The catamaran-style boat, the Katie Underwood, is named in honor of Sapelo’s last midwife. Underwood, whose parents were born into slavery on Georgia’s fourth largest barrier isla
A boat which ran aground on rocks off the Summer Isles is being towed to nearby Ullapool. The Harvest Caroline – a fish farm supply vessel – dragged its anchors after suffering engine failure. The coastguard said the skipper’s wife was evacuated safely from the boat. Five crew remain aboard.
The Port of Long Beach Green Flag programme to reduce ship speeds has yielded nearly 90% compliance, the port authority reported this week.
