SWAN Hunter’s last remaining shipyard will be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the North-East, it emerged last night. Swans has been given no alternative but to close its yard in Wallsend, North Tyneside, after the Ministry of Defence (
Lockport La…, Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. announces the appointment of Mike Toups as General Manager of Bollinger Amelia Repair, L.L.C., Amelia, La. “We are excited about Mike
The vote to encourage offshore drilling for oil along all of America
A ship at the centre of a week-long industrial dispute in Australia has set sail, with unions claiming a victory. The MT Stolt, the country’s last flagged chemical tanker, had been docked in the southern city of Hobart since Sunday, when the crew stopped work in protest against plans to replace them
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THE Cape Town container terminal has had a good year, and the operational staff are confident that they are well placed to handle any challenges in the future. The terminal handled 615 000 TEU
Over the past two weeks two new ACC sail numbers have been issued by class Technical Director Ken McAlpine. On Friday, Areva Challenge stated they are building FRA 93. The team assigned ACC 92 hasn
Fisheries authorities say a boat caught in Australian waters this morning with more than 100 kilograms of shark fin on board was probably operating out of Dili. It is the first time a boat carrying an East Timorese flag has been accused of illegal fishing. The vast majority of illegal fishing boats
With the majority of the fleet now more than half way to Jersey it is easy to think of them as being
SUBSEA 7 INC. (OSE Symbol: SUB) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued in the region of US $ 55 million by BP Norge AS for fabrication, installation and tie-in of two new pipeline systems at the Valhall field which is located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Four new [&h
Clipper Windpower and BP Alternative Energy today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance for a long-term turbine supply agreement and the joint development of five of Clipper
On July 12 the first vessel “Azov Concept” of the series of four was delivered to Albros shipping company. “Azov Concept” was launched at the Gelibolu shipyard (Turkey). The 8050 tons dwt vessel of Azov XL type and RSD12 model was laid down on December 20, 2004. All in all the 4 vessels are to [&hel
A troubled Tyneside ship building yard is to lose a contract to a rival yard in Scotland. The Ministry of Defence (MoD), said it and Swan Hunter had agreed to close the contract, despite only one of the two ships commissioned being completed. The ship, Lyme Bay, will now be transferred to BAE System
The St. Sebastian River will get deeper and cleaner. But tell that to the opossum pipefish or the big-mouth sleeper, which could suffer from the muckraising cleanout. Subaqueous Services Inc. of Orlando on Wednesday began pumping the first gobs of about 2 million cubic yards of muck that a 3-year, $
