The Port of Singapore Authority, a global leader in port management and services, will acquire a 12% stake in ABG Heavy Industries for close to Rs 50 crore. Sources said PSA will pay between Rs 325-350 per share. ABG is setting up two container terminals in Kolkata and Kandla. That apart, it is also
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For the third consecutive meeting, Miami-Dade County commissioners postponed voting Tuesday whether to allow Flagstone Property Group to create a 50-slip mega-yacht marina on Watson Island. Commissioner Bruno Barreiro proposed delaying the vote until November to allow for further review of modificat
Jacksonville, FL. – The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of a 90-foot commercial fishing vessel two-miles northeast of Ponce de Le Inlet, Fla., at 11:15 a.m. after discovering several safety violations aboard the boat. A joint boarding was conducted from an FWC boat, which included officers from th
Papenburg, 11 October 2006 Here we go: MEYER WERFT launched the production of the first steel plate for the new giant cruise liner for the cruise operator Celebrity Cruises (Miami).. The first ship of this class will be delivered to Celebrity Cruises, an affiliated company of Royal Caribbean Interna
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel nabbed a Costa Rican fishing boat carrying 3.5 tonnes of cocaine off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, a record haul in the region, police said on Monday. Four Costa Ricans were arrested last Thursday aboard the fishing vessel after it was stopped in international waters, sai
GRAND TURK, The Turks and Caicos Islands — Adrift out here on the fringes of the Caribbean, The Turks and Caicos Islands sit at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, nature’s afterthought 575 miles southeast of Miami. Oh, they’ve had their share of pirates and slaves, shipwrecks and plantations; but scar
KARACHI: Cargo handling stood at 76,987 tonnes at the Port Qasim, comprising 56,438 tonnes of import and 20,549 tonnes of export cargo inclusive of containerised cargo carried in 2,148 containers, during 24 hours ended at 0800 hours on Monday. Three ships scheduled to load and offload containers and
The U.S. Coast Guard is considering restricting access to an area offshore from Port Everglades after two large freighters ran aground this year, damaging delicate coral. “We’ve been working toward a resolution,” said Lt. James Suffern, the Coast Guard’s chief of waterway management for the region.
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The 65-foot fishing vessel Phantom ran aground at 2:45 a.m. today at the entrance to Willapa Bay in Pacific County, Wash., and was bouncing back and forth, buffeted by surf, Bob Koster, civilian search and rescue controller for U.S. Coast Guard Group Astoria said. He said a 47-foot motor life boat f
FORMER US president Ronald Reagan had a deep mistrust of the Washington bureaucracy, prompting this assessment: “Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, ‘Stop doing what you’re doing’. Reagan’s words are particularly relevant to Queensland po
A project called Transatlantic21 is almost ready to attempt the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean–from Europe to the United States–in a boat driven by solar power. Sun21 is a 14-meter catamaran that was built to show the potential of solar energy for water navigation. The 7,000-mile journey from
The first Class America ever built in China will carry the sail number CHN 95. The building of the hull was completed in Dong Guan and validated by Ken Mc Alpine, technical director of the 32nd America
