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  • Peru: Callao Terminal Officially Signed Over to APM Terminals

    5 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      Official responsibility for the administration and management of Terminal Muelle Norte, (the North Terminal) at the Port of Callao, Peru, was assumed by APM Terminals in a ceremony held on July 1st in Callao. With the final documents signed, the APM Terminals banner was raised, and stevedores set to work on the eight vessels […]

  • New Zealand: Barge Smith Borneo Recommences Salvage Operations on Rena

    26 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Following recent deterioration of the front and rear sections of the wreck due to heavy weather Maritime New Zealand is continuing to closely monitor the condition of the Rena. The crane barge Smith Borneo is secured on the starboard side of the Rena wreck and waiting to recommence salvage operations, while the divers assist with […]

  • 13 Foundations Up at Borssele 1&2

    30 January 2020

    DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed 13 of the 94 monopile foundations on the 752MW Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Ørsted said. Innovation is loading the monopiles and transition pieces at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 facility before transporting and installing them at the site located some 22 kilometres off the […]

  • Welcon to Build 80 Borssele 1+2 Turbine Towers

    26 April 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Siemens Gamesa has selected Denmark’s Welcon to manufacture 80 turbine towers for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The towers are scheduled for delivery from mid-November 2019 to mid-June 2020. This order brings Welcon’s order backlog for turbine towers to more than DKK 1 billion, the largest order backlog in the […]

  • “Spin, Baby, Spin” (USA)

    24 December 2010

    With Rhode Island Sound now looming as the next frontier for wind development near the Vineyard, the Ocean State’s Gov. Donald Carcieri summed up his state’s energy policy this month with a single phrase: “Spin, baby, spin!” The governor spoke at Roger Williams University on Dec. 10 at a meeting of the Rhode Island/Massachusetts joint […]

  • Halcrow Prize for XBEACH Gravel Model

    18 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Robert McCall (coastal morphology expert), Pieter van Geer (coastal engineering expert) of Deltares, Gerd Masselink and Timothy Poate of the University of Plymouth will be awarded the Halcrow Prize for their scientific publication about the XBEACH gravel model. The new numerical XBEACH gravel model will help agencies working with gravel beaches to improve coastal safety […]

  • Greece: Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Takes Delivery of Its New Bulk Carrier

    6 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd, a Marshall Islands Company, announced that it has take delivery of new addition in its fleet. The very first delivery for 2012 took place on January 5, 2012. 58,000 DWT Class Bulk Carrier M/V Desert Spring was christened day later during a special ceremony at HMD Shipyard. [mappress] World Maritime News Staff, January 6, 2012; […]

  • Australian Navy Intercepts Boat with Suspected Asylum Seekers

    28 December 2011

      A boat with 116 suspected asylum seekers and two crew members was intercepted north of Christmas Island by Australian Navy. HMAS Maryborough provided assistance to the vessel following a request by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Michael Keenan, opposition border protection spokesman, stated that this incident proves that Labor government has been avoiding to […]

  • Damaged Endurance set for repairs

    10 April 2009

    The flood-damaged Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance has arrived off the coast of Portsmouth after being transported home from the Falklands. Ten passengers were rescued when HMS Endurance lost power as the engine room flooded off Chile in December. Fears had been raised the ship could be scrapped after she was towed to […]

  • Migrants prompt tourism fears

    9 September 2006

    The Canary Islands are at bursting point. Not the beaches and hotels that cater for millions of tourists each year, but the police stations, courts and detention centres being used to house the boatloads of illegal immigrants risking the ocean crossing from west Africa. It has reached the point where some local authorities are publicly […]

  • Cruise ship horror

    29 May 2006

    A cruise ship passenger jumped into the pitch-black ocean off the British Virgin Islands, prompting a futile 12-hour search that bogged down thousands of vacationers yesterday, officials said. The unidentified man went overboard from the Carnival Legend vessel just after 1 a.m. on Saturday, the cruise line said. The liner was about 650 miles offshore […]

  • Ardell announces the sale of Lürssen’s Twirlybird V

    21 August 2007

    Representing both Buyer and Seller, Gage Powell from the Florida Ardell office recently completed the sale of the 133′ Lurssen ketch Twirlybird V. The yacht was built by Lürssen Yachts in 1993 to a design of Ron Holland. The trial run on the yacht was especially interesting, consisting of an ocean voyage from the Galapagos […]

  • Ship sinks in northwestern Turkey, killing three crew members

    15 October 2006

    Three crew members were killed and seven others were rescued early on Saturday when a ship bearing the flag of Comoro Islands sank off Turkey’s northwestern coast in the Black Sea, Turkey’s local Zaman daily reported. The “Magic” ship sank two miles (3.2 kilometers) south of Igneada Koru Burnu of Turkey’s northwestern province of Kirklareli, […]

  • Thousands expected at boat show

    15 September 2006

    More than one hundred thousand visitors are expected to descend on Southampton over the next 10 days for the UK’s largest on-water boat show. The annual Southampton Boat Show will be opened by trans-Atlantic rower and television star Ben Fogle alongside global yachtswoman Dee Caffari. From Friday, the show will feature tall ships to luxury […]

  • Clipper 05-06: Ahoy, shipmates

    24 June 2006

    The fleet is heading north to the restart line, and at present is just west of Great Inagua, the southern most of the Bahamanian islands. Conor Fogerty, skipper of Cardiff and the duty skipper for the fleet at the moment, hopes to restart the race from Jamaica to New York later on today. They have […]

  • Ship finds tanker responsible for Philippines oil spill

    1 September 2006

    A Japanese survey ship has found a sunken tanker, three weeks after it went down in rough seas, causing the Philippines’ worst oil spill. The Philippines coastguard says the Japanese vessel found the wreck in deep water off Guimaras island after carrying out a sonar sweep of the area. A remote-controlled submersible will also be […]

  • Bulgaria interested in Croatian LNG project

    2 July 2014

    Bulgaria might be interested in the possibility of investing in Croatian LNG project on the island of Krk. Deputy minister of economy of Croatia Alen Leveric said that the Ministry of Economy will present the LNG project to Bulgarian representatives in Sofia in the coming weeks when further discussion on the possible connection of Bulgarian and Croatian gas […]

  • Egyptian Damietta Port Receives Semisubmersible Drilling Rig Ocean Endeavor

    19 July 2012

    The port of Damietta recieved during the month of June the giant semisubmersible drilling rig Ocean Endeavor owned by U.S. company Diamond Offshore. Ocean Endeavor is specialized in the detection and exploration for oil and was leased to the Burullus Gas company working in the field of oil exploration in the area of Alexandria for […]

  • Dredging Resumes at Snohomish River (USA)

    24 January 2013

    The dredging program on the Snohomish River federal navigation channel has resumed this week, reports heraldnet.com. American Construction Company will remove up to 127,000 cubic yards of material from the mentioned area by clamshell dredging. According to William Dowell, a spokesman for the federal agency, hydraulic dredging also was done in an area between the […]

  • VIDEO: Waterdunen Coastal Protection by DEME

    10 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (DEME), an international group of specialized companies in the field of capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation, port infrastructure development and etc, has just released a video about the Waterdunen coastal protection project. Waterdunen is one of the eight weak links of the Dutch coast. Under this development program, […]

  • Dredging plan nears approval

    10 May 2006

    Final approval for maintenance and improvement dredging at the boat ramp in Phinneys Harbor, under the Emmons Road Bridge and out into Little Bay, is likely to commence in late fall or early winter. An order of conditions is expected soon from the commission, which is reviewing the project. Norman Hayes of the BSC Group, […]

  • Shanghai Begins Work on New Shipyard

    6 June 2005

    Construction has begun on what China says will eventually be the world’s biggest shipyard, part of the country’s plan for taking a dominant role in the industry. China’s biggest shipbuilding company began building the 8-kilometer-long (5-mile-long) facility late last week on an island in the Yangtze river, north of Shanghai, state media reported. The US$3.6 […]

  • Ayer Chawan Basin Reclamation Project About to Begin (Singapore)

    13 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has informed the shipping, harbour craft and pleasure craft communities in Singapore’s waters that the Ayer Chawan Basin reclamation work is scheduled for June 15, 2013. These reclamation works at Jurong Island will involve the removal of existing rocks from the rock keys along the shoreline and stockpiling […]

  • VIDEO: Floatover Substation Installation in North Sea

    30 July 2014

    Earlier this month, one of the world’s largest converter platforms has been installed off Sylt, an East Frisian Island, under the direction of Seaway Heavy Lifting. SylWin alpha platform, built by Siemens, is so large and heavy that the “float-over method” has been used to lift it from a pontoon onto the already installed jacket […]

  • VIDEO: And Round She Goes!

    29 August 2014

    This time-lapse video shows Sofrana Surville’s round trip through New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, which lasted 33 days. The whole journey has been condensed to this 14-minute video. Surville is a 140.67-meter container ship built in 2007 and home-ported in Saint John’s. She is currently sailing under the […]