The Union cabinet has approved the Sethusamudram ship canal project, which was conceived about 150 years ago. The project many not be as important as the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, but it will definitely change the Indian navigation scenario. Described by commentators as the Suez of the East, t
Will technological advances, fuel costs and environmental concerns bring back commercial sailing for cargo ships? Shipping firm Wallenius Wilhelmsen (WW) has designed a high-tech “back to the future” freighter powered solely by wind and waves in the expectation that increasing regulation and shippin
Minister Akbar Hossain yesterday asked officials to seize all vessels plying without valid documents and hand them over to the police stations concerned. He said this while presiding over a high-level meeting of the ministry at its conference room, an official handout said.
Gov. John Lynch has put together a committee to help persuade the Navy to keep the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard open. The Save the Shipyard Advisory Team includes two dozen lawmakers, business leaders and state and local officials. Lynch says its job will be to support the work being done by him, the N
The Maritime Safety Authority is satisfied the Rescue Co-ordination Centre did everything it could to assist in the rescue of two fishermen aboard the Iron Maiden which capsized off the Northland coast last year. Both men died. Rodney Hide has released tapes which he claims shows efforts to rescue t
Environmental activists say a shipyard in Seward dumped large quantities of sandblast grit contaminated with a toxic substance into air, water and beaches of Resurrection Bay. They also say that government officials did not enforce regulations that might have prevented the pollution in the first pla
Kazakhstan is able to export up to an annual 30 million tons of petroleum via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, or BTC, mainline, with a design throughput of 50 million tons. “We expect Kazakhstan to deliver up to 30 million tons a year in that direction, and we regard this prospect among our principal econo
Shipbuilding enterprises in east China’s Shandong province are presently holding orders for building 120 ships with a contract volume totaling 4.7 billion yuan (566 million US dollars), said sources with the provincial economic and trade commission. About 430 million US dollars of the shipbuilding o
Celebrity Cruises is canceling its June 3 sailing on Summit and shortening by one day its May 27 sailing to replace a radial-bearing unit that is showing premature wear in the ship’s starboard propulsion system. The replacement must be made in drydock, so the ship will enter the Victoria Shipyard dr
Qatar Gas Transportation Co (Naqilat) plans to invest $3.5bn on gas tankers, bulk carriers and a ship-repair yard, its managing director said. About $2.5bn is for liquefied petroleum gas carriers and $1bn divided equally on a yard and bulk ships, the director, Robert Curt, said in London.
There has been a collision between an empty tanker and a bulk carrier 3.5 kilometres southwest of St John’s Island. The Maritime and Port Authority says the incident occurred at 8pm on Wednesday night. There were no injuries, nor was any oil spilled. The Liberian registered tanker, MT Chrisopigi Lad
Petty Officer 3rd Class Francisco Menacheca was a high school junior in Queens when the hijacked airliners struck the twin towers. Ensign Andrea Zenn was a student at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx that day. Both of them saw the devastation in downtown Manhattan from their classrooms.
The Philippines will once again be the center of the international community as organizers stage the Ninth International Aviation, Maritime, and Defense (AMD 2005) Exhibition on May 26-29, 2005, at the Philippine Trade Training Center.
During the 2005 China International Logistics Week held in Shanghai from May 18 to 21, Feng Zhenglin, vice minister of Communications said that China has eight 100-million-tonnage ports, accounting for half of the world’s ten largest ports. China now has become one of the most dynamic and potential
