PORT HUENEME – Port Hueneme in Ventura County was closed off for several hours Monday afternoon while authorities investigated a possible terrorist threat on a cargo ship, authorities said. The closing came just before noon after a dockworker discovered a possible threat written in the cargo hold of
ST. THOMAS – Once U.S. Coast Guard certification is complete, Mr. B – a $3 million barge – will begin transporting vehicles between St. Thomas and St. John. The new, 136-foot-long, 44-foot-wide barge was blessed during a small private ceremony at the V.I. Port Authority barge terminal at Enighed Pon
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti, by Viktor Litovkin) — I’d like to start with some figures. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built more nuclear-powered ships than any other country – about 250 nuclear missile submarines, five surface ships, including several heavy missile cruises of the Admiral Ushakov cla
Australia’s Sean Langman is switching from speed to nostalgia by restoring a 1932 built 28-footer to contest this year
The Italian Luna Rossa Challenge stunned America
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., a leader in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, has purchased an additional ship similar in size to the Odyssey Explorer. This ship has completed preliminary mobilization and will be equipped with a state-of-the-art side-scan sonar system and a Remotely O
Sens. Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden said Tuesday that a Senate panel has approved an additional $15 million to continue deepening the Columbia River. The funding for dredging was included in the annual spending bill approved by the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee.
New Orleans developer Earl E. Weber Jr.’s search for a place to dock his 107-foot Dennison yacht led him to buy the old Summerfield Boat Works boatyard in Fort Lauderdale. Weber will follow through on plans initiated by Dallas-based GreyHawk Marine Group to convert the World War II-era boatyard into
Authorities, salvors and other stakeholders are working together to facilitate an effective response to the grounded container ship
SEOUL – South Korea fell behind China and Japan in the number of shipyards ranking in the world’s top 50 in terms of order backlogs as of the end of May, although seven South Korean companies were No 1 through No 7, a London-based market research firm said Monday. Fifteen Japanese shipyards and the
Nine people are believed to have died when a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sumatra island last week, and around 30 people remain missing, officials have said. An Indonesian navy boat was trying to retrieve eight bodies of people thought to have been on board the ferry, which was carrying at least 133 p
PA Resources AB (publ) has completed the offshore installation of the entire platform incl. the main deck and flare boom in the Didon field in Tunisia. Subsequently, the company will shortly start to drill the first production well, Didon#5. PA Resources AB has now fully completed the offshore insta
Commercial discoveries and promising new prospects near Norne mean that this Statoil-operated field in the Norwegian Sea is likely to continue producing longer than earlier thought. When this discovery came on stream in 1997 from a production ship and five subsea templates, it was expected to operat
MISC Bhd, the world’s biggest owner of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, has placed a fresh order to build as many as four tankers, executives familiar with the matter said yesterday. The contract value for the four 38,000 deadweight tonne carriers is estimated collectively to be in the region of
