Singapore may soon have to surrender its title, achieved five times, as the world’s busiest container terminal. According to Wang Qingwei, the board secretary of Shanghai International Port Group, Shanghai port is gaining fast on its competitor, and ‘is likely to overtake Singapore next year’.
Mumbai Port hopes to regain its stature as a major Indian container port with the government giving the go-ahead to the long-delayed US$293 million offshore container project.
Yrjö Julin (49) has been appointed President & CEO of Aker Yards. He succeeds Karl Erik Kjelstad who has served as Aker Yards CEO since January 2003. Kjelstad will leave Aker Yards to join the executive management team of Aker ASA.
Hoang Dat 36 was lifted to the water surface last Saturday, 25 days after it sank in a collision with a foreign-flagged ship in HCMC’s Nha Be River in mid-May. Staff of the Vietnam Salvage Corporation (Visal) succeeded in bringing the wrecked ship to the water surface after the accident killed half
Scotland’s new fisheries minister has travelled to Luxembourg for talks on fish quotas with European ministers. Richard Lochhead has pledged to “energetically” fight the Scottish fishing industry’s corner.
HUB Line, one of the fastest-growing intra-Asia specialists, has selected the newly-opened Sepangar Bay Container Terminal at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah as a hub port from which it will link its services to a network of several ports in the region.
Inspired by a DVD production on the Huisman Built gaff schooner Borkumriff IV (2002), a very experienced sailor and marine entrepreneur visited Royal Huisman and quickly agreed a contract or the 51m gaff rigged Schooner Meteor.
Swedish politicians and pop stars joined China’s President Hu Jintao and Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf on Saturday in welcoming back a replica of the ill-fated 18th century cargo ship Gotheborg from a two-year voyage to China.
Nations have agreed to ban international trade in the one of the world’s most spectacular fish. At the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting, delegates approved a bid to end the sawfish trade.
Carnival Group has taken up an option to build a new 86,000 ton-cruise ship worth 425 million Euros for its brand Holland America Line. The ship, which will be built at Marghera shipyard for delivery in autumn 2010, will have 1,050 cabins (85% with a sea view and 67% with a private balcony), for a [
Kongsberg Maritime and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace signed the contract for the new Finnish Navy Mine Hunting Vessel program on 9th of May 2007. The contract has a value of 114, 8 mill. NOK and include HUGIN 1000 MR autonomous underwater vehicle, EM 710 multibeam echosounder and HIPAP 500 acoustic
The new Scottish government is to carry out a review into whether a new £20m fisheries protection vessel is needed. The previous executive had agreed to put a contract for building the boat out to tender.
A trend toward larger boats has created an international dilemma resulting in lost profits for marinas here and abroad. Multimillion-dollar “mega” and “giga” yachts – some stretching as long as 500 feet – are becoming the boat size of choice among the super wealthy. But places to park these boats ar
As you read this today, the Packer super yacht Arctic P is steaming across the Mediterranean to the south of France. Australian media spies spotted the former icebreaker, ranked 30th among the world’s biggest private yachts, in Malta earlier this week.
