Many of the marine industry companies in the Turku region in the southwest of Finland want to alleviate their labour shortage by hiring migrant workers. In order to invite new workers to the field, a recruitment meeting was organised in Helsinki on Tuesday. In the Turku region, there are already hun
KUCHING: Hock Seng Lee Bhd (HSL) will develop a RM50mil shipbuilding industrial zone in the new township of Tanjung Manis in central Sarawak. The proposed zone of 142ha will cater for the construction, repair and maintenance of ships and other related downstream activities. HSL signed a memorandum o
A French shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy on a maintenance formula designed to ensure our troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as DCN, is based in Cherbourg, France. But representatives are in Halifax this week touting a maintenance met
Scientists from the United States are sifting through 45 tonnes of blubber and bones at the Kellys Cove wharf to try to determine how an endangered whale died off Yarmouth. A coast guard patrol vessel spotted the dead northern right whale Sunday about 12 kilometres off the Nova Scotia coast and towe
Two Antiguan-flagged cargo ships collided off the Kent coast when one overtook the other. Dover Coastguard said the accident between the Dealer and the Vindo happened 17 miles off Ramsgate, in the Dover Strait, at 0230 BST. Watch manager Frank O’Neill said no pollution occurred and no-one was hurt,
The discovery of a possible oil reserve in the Gulf of Mexico may fuel cheaper gas prices. While harvesting the oil may be years away, it could mean that it
DFDS Seaways has purchased the passenger ship m.s. “Fjord Norway” from the Norwegian shipping company Fjord Line. She will be delivered 16 October 2006. After refurbishment and change of name, the vessel will be deployed on the previous Fjord Line route Bergen – Haugesund – Stavanger – Newcastle fro
At a time of year when work can dry up, South Hampton Roads
Trico Marine Services, Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement, effective September 1, 2006, to build two GPA 640, 210′ offshore supply vessels for a total cost of approximately $35 million. The vessels will have diesel electric propulsion and class 2 dynamic positioning systems. Bende
Gassled has decided to assign the technical service provider (TSP) tasks for the Langeled pipeline system to Statoil from and including 1 September 2006. Statoil will then become responsible for the daily operations of the 1,200-kilometre Langeled, the world’s longest subsea pipeline. Langeled, the
The Dung Quat shipyard has imported 1,500 tonnes of steel, the first shipment of steels for the construction of a 100,000-tonne oil tanker. The oil tanker will be the first ship built by the new Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation in the Dung Quat economic complex, the largest of its kind in
New vessel construction will return to the Portland Shipyard for the first time in years under a contract announced Tuesday. New venture U.S. Barge expects to deliver its first ocean-going barge to Young Brothers Ltd. in Hawaii in September 2007. U.S. Barge is co-owned by Vigor Industrial and Oregon
Texas has a strong maritime and naval tradition. The latest chapter was on display this weekend. Escorted by the 19th century tall ship Elissa, the Navy’s newest fast-attack nuclear submarine entered Galveston Monday. The nuclear-powered USS Texas is to be commissioned Saturday by first lady Laura B
Chevron Corp. and two partners said Tuesday that they had tapped a potentially huge new source of oil in the Gulf of Mexico’s deep waters, fueling hope that further discoveries in the region could help ease the nation’s oil supply woes. The successful test of one of the deepest oil wells ever drille
