Dubai Ports (DP) World-UAE, the region’s leading port operator, has announced that it has recorded another year of impressive growth in container throughput for 2005, handling 7.62 million TEUs, which represents 19 per cent growth for 2005 compared with 2004.
Sea-power trends in the Pacific Ocean are ominous. By 2025, China’s navy could rule the waves of the Pacific. By some estimates, Chinese attack submarines will outnumber U.S. submarines in the Pacific by five to one
Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC, Amelia, La., a Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has delivered Bollinger hull #490, DBL 103, an ocean service double hull, oil tank barge built to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA
Three more illegal fishing boats were caught in Australia’s northern waters yesterday, including two with children on board.
The Matson Navigation Company has officially launched its new China – Long Beach Express service with the recent sailing of the 2,600-TEU containership MV Manulani from Shanghai.
Team ABN AMRO continues to sandwich the fleet as the boats charge towards the scoring gate at Cape Horn and the bad news for those backing an upset this leg is that Mike Sanderson
The U.S. Navy will move two of its fastest attack submarines to Washington state by next summer as it shifts defenses from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said Monday.
The master of a vessel has admitted being four times over the legal drink-drive limit. Scunthorpe magistrates remanded Romanian national Adrian Fericel, 45, in custody to Grimsby Crown Court.
Ashdod port will begin handling cargo shipment and will become affectively the only direct call port on the eastern Mediterranean. Cosco will arrive to Ashdod once a week, on Thursday morning.
Peter Korning, Director of Danish Am System A/S, hopes that a trip to Vietnam will help him find the Vietnamese partners to set up production in Vietnam.
The Ben Kien Shipbuilding Industry Company on February 25 successfully launched the Grace Casablanca cargo ship of 8,700 tonnes.
Ok… who can lend me their crystal ball? Man this is extreme yachting. As I am bouncing along here the speedo beside me clicks over 32 knots and sits over 30 for over 30 seconds! Once back at a leisurely 27 knots, life seems safe again…
Hardman Resources Limited has announced that oil production from the Chinguetti field (Hardman 19.008%), offshore Mauritania, commenced during the early hours of the morning on Saturday 25 February 2006.
The Gwadar Deep Seaport in Pakistan’s Balochistan province will be functional by the middle of this year after completion of additional dredging of the channel to 14.5 meters, making it the deepest port of Pakistan and trans-shipment port for the region.
