A report submitted to Egyptian parliament has assigned blame for February’s Al Salam 98 ferry disaster, in which more than a thousand passengers died, to the ship’s owner and government transportation agencies. “The parliamentary findings showed up the situation at Egypt’s Red Sea ports,” said Hafez
RESCUERS have abandoned the search for a Chinese sailor presumed dead after falling overboard from a Liberian-registered cargo ship off the New South Wales coast. An intensive two-day search for the 51-year-old in waters north of Newcastle has yielded no trace of the man, who disappeared from the Ym
In line with its leadership strategy in modern offshore, BOURBON is expanding its fleet with next-generation, innovative and high-productivity vessels to assist its oil and gas clients in the development of their deepwater and continental offshore operations.
The Swedish authorities are trying to solve the mystery of a man calling himself a
The Nigerian government has expanded its bilateral relations in oil sector with friendly foreign countries in the interest of the national economy, a high- ranking Nigerian official said at the weekend. “The government has deliberately expanded the scope of its relations with foreign countries in or
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SINGAPORE – Singapore
Fifty years ago on April 26, a trucker from Maxton, N.C., ran an experiment here that forever altered international trade and the global economy. While many scoffed, Malcolm McLean hired a crane to hoist 58 trailer-sized steel cargo boxes onto a Texas-bound freighter. It was an alternative to the th
BINTULU Port Holdings Bhd is realigning its activities and developing more facilities and infrastructure as it sets its target to become a world-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) port and the main port of the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines-East Asean Growth Area. While the main focus wo
UltraStrip Systems, Inc. (OTC BB: USTP), the Stuart, Florida-based technology incubator company for homeland security, marine, and defense applications, announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with Jian Huang Engineering Pte, Ltd. of Singapore including an initial sale of two of
BEIJING: A Chinese cargo ship which was reported missing in the Bohai Sea of north China over two months ago has been found sunk in the sea with 10 people aboard missing, local maritime authorities said. The missing were unlikely to have survived, said an official with the Maritime Affairs Administr
PANAMA CITY, Panama
The boom in Singapore`s offshore oil and gas rig industry is expected to last another decade. Keppel FELS, the world`s biggest jack-up rig designer and builder, says energy companies are expected to increase spending on oil exploration and production, especially in deeper waters, Channel News Asia r
The canard has gone, the shrouds have been brought inboard and the orange house-brick beneath the hull has been replaced with a sleek racing bulb. The new look team from Brunel is on a mission, but will they smash the world records they are chasing, or will they rue the day they withdrew and dumped
