A replacement for the Auckland Police launch Deodar ll will be operational by the end of 2007. In a joint announcement today by the Commissioner of Police Howard Broad and the Comptroller of Customs Martyn Dunne, the tender for the new vessel has been awarded to a New Zealand-owned and operated comp
Carnival Cruise Lines said that by August 2007 it would deploy a second year-round ship to New Orleans. The 2,758-passenger ship named Carnival Triumph would cement Carnival’s status as the number one cruise operator, Carnival said. The company claimed that it would be the only cruise line to operat
U.S. Customs officials evacuated people from one of North America’s largest ship-container terminals in Seattle and called in the bomb squad yesterday after a cargo container alarmed bomb-sniffing dogs. Seattle police determined there were no explosives in the container, but officials were still che
The Chinese government on Wednesday approved the national plan for the distribution of sea ports and the medium and long-term plans for the shipbuilding industry. The two plans were approved at a meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. It was agreed at the meeting that a reasonab
Net profit Smit Internationale N.V. increases by 57% in the first half of 2006
Washington State Department of Transportation/Washington State Ferries last week took a major step toward launching the first new vessels in the system since 1999 by issuing request for proposal documents for the design and construction of four new ferries. RFD documents include technical informatio
Royal Vopak announces two expansion projects in Asia. At its Sebarok Terminal in Singapore, the company will add 216,000 cbm fuel oil storage capacity to the current capacity of 1,037,800 cbm. In Vietnam near Ho Chih Minh City, Vopak has acquired an 80% interest in a terminal to serve the chemicals
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WAIHEKE Shipping has formally apologised to Hauraki Gulf officials for using Motuihe Island beaches as a makeshift shipyard. The Auckland Regional Council has released a letter of apology it received from the Half Moon Bay company in which it admits regret for its actions (Times, August 14). The let
Canada’s Christensen Yachts Ltd., which makes yachts for the ultra-rich, has chosen Tennessee as the site of a new shipyard. CYL will build yachts costing as much as $50 million each at a new $20 million facility on the shore of Tellico Reservoir southwest of Knoxville, the company said Wednesday.
Hyundai Heavy Industries(HHI) completed and sailed out to install an offshore gas platform, part of Korea
Miami, FL. – The Coast Guard continues to search for one person from a Panamanian-flagged ship that sank last night 100 miles east of San Andres, Colombia. The Panamanian government notified the Coast Guard that the motor vessel Dayana, a 495-foot car-carrier freight ship, had sank and requested ass
Overfishing and increasing pollution are destroying one of the world’s great fishing grounds in the East China Sea, Chinese state media said Wednesday. Eighty-one percent of the sea has been rated in the second-worst of five pollution grades, up from just 53 percent in 2000, the Xinhua news agency r
Carnival Cruise Lines said today that it has chosen the Port of Miami for its next new fleet addition, the 2,974-passenger Freedom, now under construction at Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard. Freedom will replace the Carnival Triumph at the Port of Miami with year-round, week-long Eastern and Western Ca
