A consortium comprising Gammon India and its sudsidiary Gammon Infrastructure Projects has been awarded the Kosi river bridge project and the Gorakhpur bypass project by National Highways Authority of India. The total cost of the two projects is estimated at Rs 1,080 crore. According to an official
A rare turtle species could block the development of an $11 billion gas pipeline on Barrow Island, off the north-west coast of Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) chairman Wally Cox says the development of the Gorgon Liquefied natural gas project would unnecessarily damage Ba
The owner of an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea in February, killing 1,000 passengers, is paying millions of dollars to the families of victims and to survivors. An Egyptian prosecutor announced Tuesday that shipowner Mamdouh Ismail has transferred the money into a compensation fund. The fam
Glenn Bourke, CEO of the event, yesterday notified the teams they will have to reach Holland by midnight on Friday in order for the In Port race to go ahead as scheduled, but latest estimates suggest the fleet, currently stuck in a high pressure system off the Scottish coast, will not arrive until S
With the tanker Stena Primorsk as the centre of attention, Concordia Maritime and the entire Stena group take ‘one big step’ into the limelight this week. They will together be arranging a number of activities on land and at sea – right in the heart of Stockholm! Events will include a royal naming c
Zurich, Switzerland, June 6, 2006
New Delhi – India’s Supreme Court Monday permitted asbestos- lined ocean liner SS Norway into the country’s territorial waters. The direction came after a pollution control agency had last month barred the ship from entering western Gujarat state’s Alang shipyard where it was due to be scrapped. A t
Tasmanian Treasury officials are concerned the Melbourne to Devonport ferry service is facing similar problems to the axed Sydney service and is unsustainable. The Tasmanian Government-owned ship will be sold after its last voyage in August. The discount airfares and rising fuel costs that helped fi
The Pha Rung Shipyard, a member of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) on June 3 handed over a dry-cargo ship of 6,500 tonnes to Dong Do Shipping Lines Company under the Vietnam National Shipping Lines Corporation, Vinalines. The ship, named Dong Ba, is 102.79 metres long and 17 metre
At midnight local time the yachts were 20 nautical miles east of the Fastnet, at 1000GMT they were a scant 35 miles to the west. It must be a new record, the slowest passage so far during a Volvo Ocean Race or a Whitbread. Even Lizzie Green, the event oracle for historical information can
Sailing in idyllic sunny conditions, with the breeze building to 11 knots from the morning
With half of the food onboard already consumed and not even a third of the way into leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race, it will be a slimmer set of sailors who eventually arrive in Rotterdam after their scenic tour of Ireland. Mark “Crusty” Christensen is already planning for adjusting the food quota
In a separate development, the Israel Navy is finalizing details of a contract with a German shipyard for two more submarines, which will reinforce Israel’s strategic deterrence capability, or launch a retaliatory strike against Iran from the sea in the event of a missile attack. Defense News says t
We have been working closely with Vinashin for several years now, and several major Danish companies have become involved as investors as well as suppliers. Only a few weeks ago Aalborg Industries and Vinashin opened a new factory in Hai Phong to produce marine boilers here. Earlier this year MAN B&
