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The ten-strong fleet of Clipper 68s headed out from Manhattan
AN extra $115 million will be used to develop Techport Australia – home base for the $6 billion air warfare destroyer project – into the country’s premier shipbuilding hub. Premier Mike Rann and General Peter Cosgrove made the announcement yesterday as the former defence chief officially started as
Rolls-Royce, the world-leading provider of power systems and services, has delivered the first three gas turbine generator sets which will provide the main electrical power system for the Republic of Korea Navy
Efforts to remove the fuel and deck cargo from the grounded container ship
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Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. a provider of global marine transportation services, said on Wednesday that it took delivery of two product tankers, which will be renamed “Omega Princess” and “Omega Lady Sarah”. Omega said so far it has taken delivery of five double hull product tankers and has ag
Jumbo exercises option for 4th 1,800t lift capacity J-class vessel. In 2004, Dutch heavy lift ship operator Jumbo set a world record with the introduction of the first J-Class 1,600t lift capacity vessels, the mv Jumbo Javelin and the mv Fairpartner. In order to meet the growing demand of the oil &
A joint venture of Dutch contractors BAM Civiel and Van Oord Nederland signed a design and construct contract for a new railway on 4 July 2006. The client is Prorail. The contract is for a part of the Hanzelijn, a new railroad between the Dutch cities of Lelystad and Zwolle. The execution of the pro
An attempted pirate attack on a Japanese cargo vessel off Indonesia on Tuesday has alarmed shipping companies plying the Malacca Strait, a bottleneck that is critical for far eastern commerce. About half of the world’s traded oil passes through the 550-mile channel, which links the Indian Ocean to t
It will take about three days to complete off-loading the bunker fuel from a ship stuck on a sandbank near the East London harbour, the National Ports Authority (NPA) said. Terry Taylor, the NPA spokesperson, said about eight containers are being removed from the ship per hour. “It is going extremel
The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) signed shipbuilding contracts with foreign partners, including those from Japan, Germany and Israel, worth nearly US $4.5 billion in the first half of the year. Cargo ships under these contracts were mostly of 5,300 to over 56,000 tonnes.
The Australian oil exploration company Santos announced last Friday an oil and gas discovery at the Dua-4X exploration well currently being drilled in exploration Block 12E, offshore of Vietnam. Initial tests at the Dua-4X and Dua-4X ST1 wells, operated by Premier Oil, discovered oil and another wel
Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd., (GE Shipping) today said it has signed a contract to sell Aframax crude carrier ‘Jag Leena’. The sale of the 1985 built crude carrier was in line with the increasing preference towards double hull tankers – a ship equipped with double skin of steel separated by a
