San Rafael company has agreed to pay a $735,000 fine to settle a complaint charging it with dumping dredged material from its disposal vessels more than 200 times outside designated disposal areas of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
A small container ship sank on Thursday while being loaded in Antwerp harbour, killing the captain, a spokesman for the Antwerp fire brigade said. Divers were searching for a second person who was unaccounted for and three others workers had been found and were being treated for hypothermia, said Jo
New Delhi, Aug. 17 (PTI): The Supreme Court today allayed fears of environmental activists that toxic laden Norwegian Ship S S Norway, beached at Alang Coast in Gujarat, will be dismantled in contravention of its order saying it knows how to deal with the violators. “We have not permitted breaking o
THE possibility of salvaging a fishing vessel that ran aground just south of Swakopmund this week was still uncertain yesterday afternoon. The strong south-westerly wind experienced at the coast over the last few weeks caused Novanam Fishing Company’s vessel Kolmanskop to break from its moorings at
Renaissance Services plans to acquire a platform supply vessel and a rescue ship to support its oil service contract business in the Caspian Sea, a report said. The platform service vessel called Citadel and the emergency response and recovery (ERR) ship named Bakki will join the fleet by next month
A former car ferry used by the Queen on a cruise of the Western Isles is one of three passenger ships to stop off at Invergordon on Thursday. The visits of the Hebridean Princess, Golden Princess and Vistamar will give the Cromarty Firth port its busiest day of its cruise liner season. Passengers in
After 1800 miles and 7days, 4hours, 29m and 4s at sea, Artemis Ocean Racing established a new monohull record for the fastest time round Britain and Ireland last night. The Owen Clarke designed Open 60 crossed the Cowes finish line of RORC’s Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race at 22:29:40s BST,
The Japanese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday filed a protest to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo over the detention by Russian coast guards of a Japanese fishing schooner near the South Kuriles and wounding one of the crewmembers who has died, according to Japanese media reports. However, the Russian Emba
Russian coast guards on Wednesday detained a Japanese speed vessel having the board number 123-174 after warning shots. They found a killed person on board, the public relations group of the Sakhalin coast guard department of Russia’s border guard service. The department said the vessel was stopped
A controversial asbestos-lined former ocean liner, The Blue Lady, has docked in the western Indian port of Alang in Gujarat State to be scrapped. Port officer Anil Rathore told Press Trust of India that the ship known in its glory days as the SS France would be broken in a month’s time. Indian Supre
A U.S. cruise ship’s engine propeller struck the sea floor while docking Wednesday in the Bahamas, spilling oil and damaging the vessel, the cruise company said. The Celebration was forced to abandon its planned stop in Nassau and return to its homeport in Jacksonville, Florida, a Carnival Cruise Li
A major shipbuilding contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars could be heading to Whangarei. The Whangarei District Council will meet behind closed doors tomorrow to discuss an offer from Culham Engineering to buy a block of ratepayer-owned land at the end of Fraser St, in the port area, known
VietNamNet Bridge – The Pha Rung Shipyard in the northern port city of Hai Phong on August 15 began work on its largest-ever cargo ship of 34,000 DWT and an oil tanker of 6,500 DWT. As part of Pha Rung’s contract to build 8 cargo ships for Graig Invetments of the UK, the 34,000 DWT […]
Coastal Contracts Bhd will focus on building oil and gas (O&G) logistics vessels to capitalise on the current high crude oil prices and increase in O&G exploration as well as production activities. Executive chairman Ng Chin Heng told StarBiz that the company was currently working to secure the supp
