In twilight tonight, the Sacagawea will get her first taste of saltwater. By 8 p.m., smoke will rise from beneath the ship’s 41,000 tons, champagne bottles will be smashed against her 12-story-high bow and descendants of Sacagawea will send this future Navy resupply ship stern-first into San Diego B
Three groups vying for the lucrative $1.45-billion contract to maintain Canada
This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers corps officials began a 60-day, $2 million project to cut into the Saginaw River’s bottom to remove the silt that threatens to strangle shipping in Saginaw County. The corps plans to remove at least 5 feet from the shallows of Saginaw’s only turning basin
Aker Yards has today signed an agreement with Kleven Maritime to acquire Kleven Flor
Golden Ocean Group Limited (GOGL) is pleased to advise that the Company has purchased the 1999 built Panamax M/V Kingston Trader. Simultaneously Golden Ocean has sold the vessel on back to back terms to Navigation Finance Corp ( NFC ) with a 10 years lease back at $ 9.300 per day on bare boat. The [
Jakarta (dpa) – Nearly 40 passengers were still missing after a ferry sunk in rough waters off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Friday. Most of the over 130 passengers and crew on board the Surya Makmur Indah ferry when it sunk off the coast of North Sumatra Thursday were resc
The World Bank says that each year about 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas goes up in smoke. That
On Monday, June 19th 2006, a Letter of Intent (LOI), has been signed between the Albanian Ministry of Defence and Damen Shipyards Gorinchem. The signing ceremony took place on board of the Dutch frigate ?Hr. Ms. Willem van der Zaan?, moored alongside in the Port of Durres, Albania. The LOI is the fi
Mogadishu: A cargo ship carrying 20,000 tons of coal sank off the coast of Somalia and a rescue mission was under way to save the crew, officials said yesterday. About 20 crew members are believed to be floating on life rafts since MV Kanaya went down on Wednesday, said Andrew Mwangura, head of the
he U.S. Navy ship (USNS) Mercy is continuing its five-month mission in Southeast Asia, traveling to Indonesia, Bangladesh and East Timor after rebuilding local facilities and providing medical aid and training in the Philippines. “The crew of the USNS Mercy, along with its partners from civilian org
Raytheon’s refreshed version of the MK 2 Ship Self Defense System has passed U.S. Navy open architecture qualifying testing. The MK 2 system, known by its initials SSDS, can now be used in warship combat-management systems that meet the Navy’s Open Architecture Computing Environment standard. “This
South-east Queensland authorities say a chemical leak on a foreign cargo ship that berthed at the Port of Brisbane late yesterday is worse than originally feared. Emergency crews have worked through the night at Fisherman Islands to neutralise the danger from toxic and highly flammable cleaning chem
Om 21-6-2006, dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv increased its 51% holding in Cofra to full ownership. This acquisition strengthens Boskalis
Saying the test had been scheduled for months and had nothing to do with the current crisis with North Korea, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has announced that a Navy ship has fired an interceptor that shot down a warhead from a medium-range missile over Hawaii, according to an Associated Press dis
