A North Korean cargo ship that led the Australian navy on a four-day sea chase is to be destroyed despite its captain being acquitted of heroin smuggling charges, police said on Monday.
A crew member on a Hong Kong-based container ship died Sunday after being critically injured during a routine lifeboat-safety drill at Terminal 18 on Harbor Island.
At 0330 GMT this morning movistar was about to be craned back into the water. She is now motoring back down the Beagle Channel and has 34 miles to go before reaching the spot where she suspended racing from where she can resume racing to Rio.
An early lead now could so easily dissolve into a deficit in the light and fluky winds usually found off Rio de Janeiro, not a comforting thought for race leader ABN AMRO ONE and Mike Sanderson as he sits helpless with no wind, watching as the fleet closing in on him.
Statoil has concluded its in-house commission of inquiry following the gas leak on the Visund platform in the North Sea on 19 January. The underlying cause was a design fault on a knock-out drum.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE: MTW) announced today that U.S. Shipping Partners, L.P. has awarded the Manitowoc Marine Group (MMG) a contract for the construction of two 156,000-barrel, ocean-class, double-hull tank barges.
Aker Arctic, which started operations as a new company in the beginning of 2005, has erected a modern new office and ice model test facility in the Vuosaari district of Helsinki.
The Arabian Gulf state of Qatar is currently the largest market for MariNOx , the world
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A proposal before Congress that would limit the construction of wind turbines near shipping lanes could effectively doom plans to build the country’s first offshore wind farm near Massachusetts, the project’s supporters say.
Iran has invited foreign companies to develop its offshore South Pars gas field, the first such call since hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took power in August, Iranian state media reported.
An Arizona father whose daughter’s disappearance from a cruise ship went unreported, a Connecticut couple who had nearly $7,000 worth of jewelry stolen on a cruise are among a dozen people scheduled to testify at a congressional hearing Tuesday.
A fisherman has died after falling overboard from a boat near Skokholm Island off the Pembrokeshire coast on Saturday, say Dyfed-Powys Police.
The captain and three officers from an alleged North Korean drug-running cargo ship have been found not guilty of helping to import heroin into Australia.
