PORT ARTHUR – Dredging to make room for deep-water ship berths needed for new liquefied natural gas terminals will lead to a side benefit of stronger wetlands a few miles west in an area popular with fishermen and duck hunters. With the addition of the Golden Pass LNG terminal, which started constru
Under a government plan to phase out inner-city ports, a southern company last Friday received an investment licence to develop the US$249 million Hiep Phuoc Container Port in Nha Be outlying District. The licence was handed over by chairman of the HCM City People
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said he supports the ongoing study of a US$1.2 billion deep-water port in northern Quang Ninh province while touring industrial sites in the province Sunday. Dung said during his visit that Quang Ninh should develop a system of deep water ports, industry, urbanization
Aker Floating Production ASA has through its wholly owned subsidiary Aker Contracting FP AS entered into a 180 day contract with Koch Shipping Inc., USA for its vessel `Aker Smart 3` (previously `Oriental Tiger`) to serve as an anchored floating storage unit in Malaysian waters. The contract has opt
The Government of Dubai and Dubai Petroleum Company (DPC) today announced a joint agreement that will change the operating agreements for Dubai offshore oilfields. Effective April 2007, DPC will end it’s role as operator, marking the end of Dubai’s first offshore oil concession and the beginning of
THE doomed Safmarine Agulhas has finally snapped in two on the western breakwater of the East London harbour. South African Maritime Safety Association (Samsa) spokesperson Captain Peter Kroon said the 17000-ton ship
Environment officials say an oil spill off the B.C. coast was the best of a bad situation. More than 29,000 litres of heavy bunker oil spewed into the water after a cargo ship punctured a fuel tank while leaving port. The wind pushed it about 500 metres into Howe Sound, and some seeped into the [&he
Aker Yards and Damen Shipyards Group have finalized the process of establishing joint ownership of the Damen Shipyards Okean, as announced on June 2 2006. The plans involve increasing the output capacity of the yard to 60,000 tonnes per year, and will contribute to a strengthened shipbuilding capaci
The Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, will be rescued from the James River “Ghost Fleet” and restored by a Norfolk shipyard. Colonna’s Shipyard won a nearly one million dollar contract to repair and spruce up the maritime relic. The ship is a national historic lan
Human error was the cause of the latest crash of a vessel from Sydney Ferries’ accident-prone fleet, a report by the NSW Office of Transport Safety Investigations has found. No-one was injured when the RiverCat Betty Cuthbert slammed into a moored yacht and motor launch on January 11 this year after
Search for a semi-submerged Russian ship, the Kapella, began in the Tatar Strait near the Sakhalin port city of Nevelsk early on Monday. The tugboat Topaz, arriving from Vladivostok, conducts the search. Late on Thursday, the Kapella collided with an Italian ship, got a hole of about five square met
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a groundbreaking contract to design and build its first drilling rig for deployment in Brazilian waters. The US$270 million contract from Brazilian drilling contractor Queiroz Galv
An oil spill reportedly covering 100 hectares of Barangay Sangat, San Fernando town
Terschelling, The Netherlands. Transas took part in the MARSIM 2006 Conference in Terschelling, The Netherlands, from 25th to 30th June. This year MARSIM was hosted by the Willem Barentzs Maritime Institute in cooperation with the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Maritime Research Institute Netherla
