New Delhi – The state-owned Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has bagged the contract for deepening the channel between Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay under the ambitious Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP). Expected to cost Rs.20.77 billion, the 69 million cubic metres of dredging will be done
SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento-based U.S. District Court has ordered a halt to all dredging at the Port of Stockton, dealing a blow to a massive expansion plan. Environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port of Stockton last month to stop the dredging of the San Joaquin River,
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Top Yachts is exhibiting for the first time at Monaco and Genoa Boat shows the revolutionary new 5 double cabin Custom Line 97 n. 1
The Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts is an epic tale of a voyage in search for the Golden Fleece. Now, more than three thousand years later, shipbuilders in the Greek port of Volos have recreated Jason’s mythical vessel, piecing together images from ancient vase paintings and wall frescos to
On September 19 the joint-stock shipping company Latvijas kugnieciba (LK) ceremoniously accepted the second tanker – the vessel “Jurkalne”, from the Croatian ship factory 3.Maj, as LK Public Relations Service chief Marita Ozolina-Tumanovska informed LETA. Iveta Sulca, who is head of the European Com
Whitby Harbour will soon have a new
Two men have been rescued from a fishing boat which sank at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour in Kent. They were taken off the commercial fishing vessel, called Chananne, by lifeboat minutes before it went down, at about 0730 BST. The Maritime Accident Investigation Bureau is investigating the cause
A high-speed ferry service running along the chain of islands is just what Caribbean integration should be about. The ferries will be capable of moving large numbers of Caribbean people and products at reasonable rates up and down the chain of islands. At a press conference yesterday, Peoples Empowe
MDOT expects to award the contract for operation of the ferry across the Bay of St. Louis to an Indiana company that runs two ferries in Alabama, it announced Tuesday. Hornblower Marine Services, which opened its Gees Bend Ferry about an hour southwest of Montgomery on Monday, beat one other company
Mobile’s Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. has sold its 30 percent stake in Austal USA to Austal Ltd., Bender President Tom Bender and Austal USA Chief Executive Officer Greg Metcalf confirmed Tuesday. The deal, which Metcalf said was struck last week, was valued at $20.6 million, according to a repo
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; TSE:7011) has received an order for six M501G gas turbines from Florida Power & Light (FPL) for its West County Energy Center project in Florida. The order was received through Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA), MHI’s power systems operation base
The International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) has committed to facilitate the offloading of the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar 1, Governor JC Rahman Nava said on Tuesday. The IOPC, which is a worldwide group of oil refiners, will be the one to look for a company that could siphon t
As big questions hang over the country’s ports, new data shows the port of Auckland closing in on Tauranga in terms of the value of goods exported. The Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) figures for the year ended June show the value of exports through Auckland rising 14.6 per cent ($830 million) to $6.5
