A cruise ship hit a pier while docking in Mexico, cutting a 42-foot gash in the ship’s side and delaying its return to New Orleans. Nobody was hurt, but the 2,030 passengers will have to either fly back on chartered flights or wait until the repairs are done, said Michael Sheehan, a spokesman for Ro
There has been a sharp increase in the number of cruise passengers visiting Malta in the first three months of this year, the National Statistics Office said. The number of cruise passengers went up by 12,922 over the same period last year and amounted to 15,675. In the period under review, the high
Amels, a division of the Damen Shipyards Group, announces completion of the transfer of administrative and technical personnel from Makkum to its larger facilities in Vlissingen, in the southwest of Holland. Effective immediately, all Amels activities-including sales and marketing, naval architectur
The European Union on Monday prolonged until 2010 its arrangement for providing exemption to antitrust laws for shipping companies which team up to form consortia. The arrangement automatically excludes cargo shipping consortia from EU antitrust rules banning collusion between companies, providing t
On Sunday, 24 April, agreement was reached on a far-reaching form of co-operation between Samskip and the Dutch Kloosterboer Group whereby Samskip will acquire a number of coldstore companies that belong to Kloosterboer. This move will create one of Europe’s leading specialists in reefer logistics f
Marine police have set up three special units to give an “added punch” to their anti-piracy operations. Police internal security and public order director Othman Talib said the units handled combat dives, intelligence and special investigations. The units had already scored a major success with the
The Indian government has been urged by the environmental campaign group, Greenpeace, not to allow a Danish ship carrying toxic waste to be scrapped. Greenpeace says that the King Frederik IX ship, is carrying dangerous and carcinogenic asbestos insulation. The vessel docked at the Alang ship breaki
BP Plc, the world’s second-largest oil company by market capitalization, beat analysts’ forecasts with a 29 percent rise in first-quarter profits on Tuesday, boosted by high oil prices. BP said in a statement its replacement cost net profit, which excludes rises in the value of inventories, rose to
A top Pentagon official is now saying a plan to have Navy destroyers built at a single shipyard needs more study. While that statement is hardly definitive, the news that the Navy might be backing away from a decision that could spell the death of Bath Iron Works is good for Maine and the nation. [&
Construction officials have come up with a series of safeguards for marine life endangered by explosions planned to deepen a channel at the Port of Miami. Among the precautions will be spotters in helicopters looking out for dead manatees, turtles and dolphins, The Miami Herald said Monday. “We’re b
Mike Golding Yacht Racing in the UK has announced that Ecover has been fitted with a new keel in preparation for the Calais Round Britain Race beginning in France next May. The keel arrived in Britain on April 15 after Canadian skipper Derek Hatfield agreed to sell the keel from his own boat. Unlike
Saint Petersburg, Florida – Rough weather turned a trip on a St. Petersburg Casino ship into a nightmare. Passengers on the Ocean Jewel were expecting to return at 11pm Saturday night. Instead they didn
Pirates hijacked a tin-laden Indonesian ship traveling to Singapore and held the crew captive for two days while unloading the cargo in a Malaysian port, a maritime watchdog said Tuesday. The pirates, believed to be Indonesians, fired gunshots at the ship and boarded it Friday shortly after it had l
Dubai-based Gulf Energy Maritime (GEM) has taken delivery of the first of four tankers it has on order from Korean shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries
