Ecuador’s Manta port authority (APM) is not concerned by the US$450mn deepwater port project submitted by Spanish firm Alianza Internacional Portuaria (Alinport) for national merchant marine board (CNMM) approval, APM general manager Patricio Padilla told BNamericas.
A dramatic surge in the lucrative West Coast shipping trade has Richmond officials eyeing an undeveloped stretch of marshland just north of the Chevron refinery for a possible container ship port. California’s major ports are already operating at full capacity, and as trade between the Pacific Rim a
The Bua Provincial Council has embarked on a new shipping venture under Bua shipping limited. The company is in the process of purchasing a vessel from Germany which is expected to be delivered late next week.
The expanding global shipping trade is making the underwater world a noisy environment, with unknown effects on marine life, according to a new study of California offshore waters published Friday. The study shows a tenfold increase in underwater ocean noise off the coast of Southern California as c
THE town of Balamban is expected to grow further next year with the expansion of a large ship manufacturing company located in the municipality. In an interview, Aboitiz and Co. president and chief executive officer Jon Ramon Aboitiz said Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Inc. (THII) would invest some $100
Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) announced today that one of its new vessels, the M/V PAT TAYLOR, named in honor of the late New Orleans businessman, Patrick F. Taylor, will be christened on Monday, August 21, 2006, at the wharf of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Mrs. Phyllis M. Taylor, wife of Pat Tayl
Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won two large contracts in Russia. In St. Petersburg Boskalis will dredge a new access channel from the sea. In Varandey Boskalis is involved in the construction of two oil pipelines of 20 kilometers each in the Barents Sea.
Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, Inc. (LRQA), a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group, has awarded ISO 14001 certification to Holland America Line and Windstar Cruises at a ceremony in Seattle, Washington. ISO 14001 is the international standard for Environmental Management Systems, reflecting glo
Tehran, Aug 19, IRNA-Iran’s Offshore Oil Company exports 18-20 million barrels of crude oil per month. A report released by the international department of Iran’s ffshore Oil Company quoting the company’s export and import manager, Mahmoud Baharvand, said that its current daily production of crude o
Two fishermen, adrift in a life raft for three hours off the west coast of the South Island, were flown by rescue helicopter to Hokitika. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre says the two men made a distress call at about 1am Saturday morning, saying their fishing boat, the Challenger Two, was adrift and
Sri Lanka Air force fighters destroyed a boat manufacturing yard of the LTTE terrorists this evening (Friday the 18th of August) by aerial bombardment. The Media Center for national Security says the boat yard located at Thalayadi in Campianpaththuwa area has been destroyed and many terrorists were
Debates over the asbestos-covered ship known as
The Queensland Opposition has slammed Premier Peter Beattie’s latest campaign pledge not to build a cruise ship terminal on the spit at the Gold Coast. It says Queenslanders cannot trust anything Peter Beattie says. Nationals MP Jeff Seeney says today’s announcement is nothing but a “con” because th
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) , today delivered a fourth and final double-hulled oil tanker, the “Alaskan Legend,” to BP Shipping Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary and ship operating division of BP p.l.c. (ADR: BP). The “Alaskan Legend” will depart S
