Thailand has shelved its ambitious $7.3 billion plan for an oil “land bridge” after the Dec. 26 tsunami made potential investors question its safety and viability, a senior Energy Ministry official said on Tuesday. “Tsunami risks around where the sea ports would be built have been raised and we need
Australia’s largest air and sea operation targeting illegal fishing has netted 27 Indonesian boats carrying 240 crew in the past week off the country’s north coast, Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald said on Wednesday. The nine-day “Operation Clearwater” uncovered organized large-scale illegal fishing
The world’s biggest iceberg has hit the end of an Antarctic glacier, snapping off a block about 5 square kilometers (3 square miles), a New Zealand scientist said Wednesday. The giant iceberg, known as B15A, ran into the tip of the Drygalski Ice Tongue in “more of a nudge than a collision,” said Lou
For the last several years, freight deliveries by tanker have tripled on average. More than $5 billion were spent on shipping Russian oil by tanker in 2004. But Russian oil companies are still less than enthusiastic about entering the shipping business. A proposed law approved by the administration
The Federal Government is under pressure to spend an extra $100 million on securing Australia’s ports. A new report released today by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute also calls for a specialised police force to patrol ports and greater security checks on foreign crews. The study on the ter
The demand for barges is set to increase in the coming years when steel-hulled vessels will replace wooden dhows, said a leading exhibitor taking part in the Gulf Maritime 2005 exhibition at Expo Centre Sharjah.
The FFV has given K-Challenge the official label of French Team for the 32nd America
Two of the world’s fastest racing monohulls are set to go head-to-head during the upcoming 2005 Rolex Transatlantic Challenge. The race starts May 21st off New York and after passing through a gate off The Lizard, finishes at The Needles, on the Isle of Wight, UK. Robert Miller’s 140-foot (43m) Mari
Bay Shipbuilding Co. has four new-build contracts that continue to keep its shipyards busy with about 725 workers. The shipyard announced on Monday a contract previously kept secret
A change in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A proposed dredging project at the Port of Pascagoula could be on hold or eventually scrapped due to concerns that it would affect the habitat of a fish considered a threatened species. The port has plans for three-phase dredging project that would create approximately 150 acres of tidal marsh on th
Navy Secretary Gordon England repeated his call Tuesday for a single shipyard to build destroyers, again raising concerns about the prospect of a reduced workload at Bath Iron Works. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington to consider his nomination to be deputy secretary of d
Palmer Johnson has now sold three of their highly acclaimed 120 ft. Sport Yachts and also signed a contract for a 150 ft. Super Sport Yacht which is scheduled to deliver in late 2006. Further, the company sold the first of their 123 ft. GRP Raised Pilot House series upon its debut at the 2005 [&hell
Plans to construct Belfast’s first Tall Ship could breathe new life into the local ship-building industry, an officially-commissioned report on the project has found. A business plan for the venture, which would take three years to complete and would cost around
