City officials took their eight-year campaign to dredge Norwalk Harbor to the state Transportation Strategy Board yesterday, asking them to take a larger role in helping municipalities get approval for such projects.
In its first trans-oceanic voyage, the Spanish team leaves Australia sailing through Cape Horn en route to Brazil, clocking in 8.100 miles of navigation – 6.700 of them non-stop.
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HONOLULU (AP) – A cruise ship company has canceled a 10-day cruise to Hawaii because of engine trouble. The Celebrity Cruises ship “Infinity” was scheduled to set sail this Sunday from Ensenada, Mexico, to Honolulu.
Millions of visitors are due in the North this summer to celebrate the arrival of a spectacular fleet of Tall Ships as they drop anchor in the Tyne. And yesterday the build-up to what promises to be one of the biggest events in the UK this year began with a Tall Ships launch event on […]
SUCCESSFUL bid for the navy’s air warfare destroyer contract would eventually inject more than $20 billion into South Australia’s economy, State Defence Unit chief executive Kevin Scarce said. Rear Admiral Scarce said the $6 billion construction program would likely be supplemented by a long-term ma
Louisiana shipbuilder Conrad Industries Inc. says it will voluntarily take its stock off Nasdaq around the end of the month and will deregister its common stock.
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Taipei, March 23 (CNA) State-run China Shipbuilding Corp. (CSBC) President Fan Kuang-nan said Wednesday that a plan to change the company’s name will cost an estimated NT$140 million (US$4.46 million). Fan told the legislature’s Sci-Tech and Information Committee that the company submitted its name-
A disabled fish-processing ship adrift in the stormy Gulf of Alaska with 204 people aboard was taken under tow by a Coast Guard cutter Tuesday. The 325-foot Independence’s steering system failed Monday in 20-foot seas with blowing snow and wind as high as 60 mph. The weather calmed overnight, but
India will next month begin building an indigenously designed aircraft carrier that will tap Italian expertise and take eight years to complete, a senior naval officer announced yesterday. The carrier is designed to operate a mix of Russian MiG-29K and Kamov 31 anti-submarine helicopters and the nav
With stiff northerlies predicted and a strong fleet, tomorrow’s Ultimate Coastal Challenge yacht race between Auckland and Tauranga is likely to be over quickly. Brand new super maxi Maximus, the largest racing yacht to be built in New Zealand, will make its open-water debut during the race.
March 22, 2005 — SAN DIEGO, CA — National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO: www.nassco.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has delivered the Alaskan Explorer, the second of four Alaska-class double-hull oil tankers being built for BP Oil Shipping Company, USA, a sub
Keppel Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Ltd, has secured a Floating Production Storage & Offloading (FPSO) hull conversion contract worth S$84 million from Marathon Petroleum Company (Norway) on MST Odin. The 87,000 dwt multi-purpose shuttle tanker arrived at Keppel Shipyard
