Singapore’s clipper has beaten nine others in the latest leg of the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race. The “Uniquely Singapore” clipper, which was in eighth position before the start, crossed the finish line first. On May 30, just before 10pm Singapore time, Uniquely Singapore took their firs
Concerns that the dredging of Charlottetown Harbour will ruin fishing grounds have been addressed, a harbour authority official says. In order to open the port to larger cruise ships, parts of the harbour will have to be made deeper, and fishermen had been worried the sediment from the dredging woul
Ocean Isle Beach | After years of disappearing sand and even some disappearing oceanfront homes, the seriously eroded east end of this Brunswick County resort town is finally getting some relief. New sand is being pumped from the nearby Shallotte Inlet crossing of the Intracoastal Waterway, but ther
Today, dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv completed the acquisition of the dredging fleet and dredging activities of the Dutch company D. Blankevoort International Dredging Company, which was announced earlier this year. The acquisition provides Boskalis with an additional team of some 8
Singapore-listed Cosco Corp says its shipyard division has won four high-value contracts worth more than S$180 million. The deals were won by China-based Cosco Shipyard in which it has a 51 per cent stake. These contracts range from building tugs and barges and to convert an oil tanker.
The construction of the second oceanic mega-yacht of the A1331 class started at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk on Tuesday, shipyard spokesman Mikhail Starozhilov told Itar-Tass. He said the construction of the first yacht began last year to order of the Baltika Shipbuilding Company.
The Defence Ministry initiated on Sunday a project to relocate the Ba Son shipyard from HCM City. he VND4 trillion ($250 million) facility, to be located at Cai Mep port in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, will build and service naval vessels. The new shipyard, expected to become operational by 2010, can b
Authorities in Barbados are still trying to discover how a boat carrying the bodies of 11 men was found adrift off the Barbadian coast a month ago. Police believe the men were mostly from Senegal after finding an Air Senegal ticket on board and a note left by one of the dying men. In the […]
Twenty one Indian crew members of a bulk cargo ship carrying iron ore were rescued by the Coast Guard as one died after it hit an oyster rock and started sinking at Karwar port, a senior Coast Guard official said. The ship “MU Ocean Sharaya” with 22 crew members was coming to the port for […]
Today, 30 May 2006, the keel of Tallink
On Wednesday the 24th of May the contract was signed between Damen and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, the Ministry of Transportations, Directorate General of Sea Transportation for the construction and delivery of one Damen Buoy Tender Vessel 5811 and three Damen Aid Tender Vessels 481
On May 27, H.4442, a 6,700 UNITS PCTC for Wallenius Lines was named the
Bertram Engelsen, Technical Director from the Norwegian shipping company Solvang ASA, pushed the button of the computer-controlled plasma torch for the steel construction of the second out of a series of four gas tankers. This machine cuts the first steel plate and hallmarked the start of constructi
Maersk Contractors has entered into a seven-year contract with Woodside Energy Ltd. Maersk will be providing a Floating Production and Storage Offloading vessel (FPSO) on service agreement basis, for development of Woodside
