The Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon Shipmarine Company, an affiliate of shipbuilding giant Vinashin, secured Sunday an accord to build two 6,500 DWT freighters for Japanese Kanematsu Corporation. The two ships would be Shipmarine
The Naming Ceremony for the eighth and ninth Armidale Class Patrol Boats to be launched was held today at the Austal shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. Fourteen patrol boats in total are to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy. The 56 metre, all-aluminium monohull vessels were named
Dutch Environment Secretary Pieter van Geel was to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Osman Pepe in Turkey on Monday in an attempt to resolve a dispute about a ship containing 54 tons of asbestos. The Otapan, which had been lying in Amsterdam since 1999, left on July 28 under tow for Aliaga, no
Des Moines has been towed from the Philadelphia shipyard en route to Texas to be scrapped 45 years after it was decommissioned. The 717-foot ship was ordered during World War II, but wasn’t finished until after the war ended. It was one of the largest cruisers of its time, but it never saw combat.
Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ESPH), the Stuart, Florida-based technology innovation company for homeland security, marine, disaster relief and defense applications, announced today that it has shipped the initial M3500 Robotic Systems to begin coating removal services for BAE Systems Ship Re
Navy budget cutters are about to achieve what flood and fire could not: sink the Dolphin submarine. Less than a year after completing a $50 million project to repair and upgrade the San Diego-based research vessel, the Navy will decommission it Sept. 22. It is the country’s last diesel-electric sub.
On August 28 2006 the Nizhny Novgorod Teplokhod JSC (MNP Group) launched the hull of the first dry cargo ship of 164-
A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a security alert at a busy ferry terminal. Officers were called to the Ardrossan ferry terminal when staff became concerned about the behaviour of a group travelling on a minibus. They were due to sail from Ardrossan to Arran on Scot
Burger Boats president, David Ross, has announced that the company
After almost 10 months at sea, the Swedish ship Gotheborg will arrive in Shanghai today. The tall ship will first drop anchor at the Wusong Port in Baoshan District at 2pm so a group of Swedish officials, including the mayor of Gotheborg and Princess Victoria can board. It will then set off for the
Calgary, Alberta – Mr. John C.S. Lau, President & Chief Executive Officer, Husky Energy Inc., announced that Husky will be expanding its mainline crude oil pipeline between Lloydminster, Alberta and its terminal at Hardisty, Alberta. This expansion will accommodate increased production from its Tuck
In Sydney, Australia, in 2000, one Italian sailor fights hard against a British competitor for the Olympic Gold medal in the Finn Class…Luca Devoti against Iain Percy. At the end, it was the younger Percy who walked away with gold around his neck. Then they were rivals, but today these two men are r
Three hundred twenty tons of humanitarian aid sent from Turkey to Lebanon by Turkish NGOs have arrived at the Beirut port. A civilian ship carrying humanitarian aid worth $3.5 million arrived at a Beirut port on Saturday morning. The aid ship was welcomed by Lebanese Labor Minister Trad Hamade, Turk
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Crews have righted a ship loaded with new cars and SUVs that had keeled over onto its side a month ago in the north Pacific Ocean. The Cougar Ace, which had been listing severely south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is being prepared for a tow to Portland, Ore., the Anchorage Dail
