A ceremony marking the keel laying for Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria was held today at the Marghera shipyard of Fincantieri near Venice, Italy. The second largest Cunarder ever built, Queen Victoria will enter service on December 11, 2007 and become the third in Cunard’s fleet of Queens when she join
WASHINGTON — Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country’s coastal waters to energy development. The House late Thursday rejected an attempt to end the quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling
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Extra security workers will be on duty for the return to port Sunday morning of the Mariner of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which is home-ported at Port Canaveral. The ship has been in the news since one of the passengers was lost at sea on Monday. “There will be some heightened security
Gouda – Imtech N.V. (technical services provider in Europe) announces that it has acquired a majority interest of 51% in Tess Electrical Marine Inc. in Fort Lauderdale in Florida USA . The acquisition fits in with Imtech’s strategy of further growth in the maintenance and services market for luxury
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Ports of Auckland and the Auckland Regional Council are this week providing what other New Zealand ports cannot for the giant ship the FPSO Whakaaropai. The enormous size and draft of the vessel and also that it has no ship mooring lines and only one anchor, means it is not permitted to enter the po
The U.S. Navy has awarded Mobile-based Austal Hull 130 Chartering LLC a $13.4 million contract for a 228-day lease of a high speed vessel to transport soldiers and equipment among countries in the West Pacific, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Parent company, Australia-based Austal Ltd.,
On Friday 12th of May 2006, DAMEN and COTECMAR of Cartagena, Colombia signed a contract for the construction of two Damen Stan Tugs 2208. The vessels are expected to be delivered by mid 2007. The tugs will be constructed for Damen’s stock position and are the result of many years of close cooperatio
Work is due to begin on a new cruise liner which is widely thought will eventually replace the QE2. The new
Day 9 and the racing must go on. The fleet continues to spread out, with the leaders breaking the 1,000 nautical mile mark in southwesterly winds that continue to push the fleet towards the finish. With the stronger winds over the last 48 hours, the miles are disappearing and it looks like the leade
A.P. Moller – Maersk has declared the option for a third deepwater development semi-submersible at Keppel FELS limited in Singapore. The new rig is expected to be delivered in March 2010. Similar to its sister rigs the rig will be able to operate at water depths of up to 10,000 ft and is designed fo
A MacGREGOR RoRo cargo access/transfer equipment package is a key part of Matson Navigation
SYDNEY, N.S. – There was a time when the Maritimes were linked by sea routes eastern seaboard, and they can be once again, says the author of much hyped intermodal sustainability report on short-sea shipping. According to the Cape Breton Post, Dalhousie professor of marine transportation policy Dick
