On May 22nd 2007, a 16,400dwt petroleum/chemical carrier built for Norway STENERSEN was off the third product line in Jiangnan Changxing shipbuilding base, which therefore indicated the actual start of the shipbuilding in Changxing base. A big buoyancy tank in 210meters long 30meters wide and 4.5 me
The Grand Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL are adjusting their service concept on the Trans Pacific during the main season in summer to meet customer requirements even more effectively. The East Coast South (ECS) and East Coast North (ECN) will be reconfigured to offer more diverse loading
SEOUL –– South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering said Monday it had won orders worth a total 1.05 billion dollars to build 12 container ships for German clients.
Deliveries of food aid to Somalia by sea have been halted, after an attempt by pirates to seize a ship chartered by the UN food relief agency. The head of the World Food Programme said their programme to feed one million Somalis is under threat.
The fire at Cutty Sark could mean just one clipper from the same period remains intact – and there are plans for it to be demolished. The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 and, like Cutty Sark, combines a cast iron frame with a wooden hull.
A fire which swept through the famous 19th Century ship Cutty Sark may have been started deliberately, police say. The ship, which was undergoing a £25m restoration, is kept in a dry dock at Greenwich in south-east London.
MADRID – The Spanish government is investigating if a crime was committed by a Tampa company that said it had found $500-million worth of coins in an Atlantic shipwreck, news reports said Sunday.
Rangoon (AP)—A cargo ship from North Korea docked in Burma on Sunday in what was believed the be the first port call by a ship from the communist nation since the two countries agreed last month to resume diplomatic relations.
The new nuclear attack submarine Hawaii and other Virginia-class subs will be the major source of work for the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in coming years, officials said. The $2.4 billion vessel was commissioned May 5 in Groton, Conn., and is expected to arrive for the first time at its home port o
A luxury cruise liner has been chartered to accommodate hundreds of delegates attending a major oil conference in Aberdeen. The Offshore Europe exhibition, visited by an estimated 15,000 delegates, will take place in the city in September.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Vinashin to play the core role in transforming the shipbuilding industry into a world giant, thus speeding up national industrialisation.
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (“Knightsbridge” or the “Company”) announces that it has agreed to fix out on time charter one of its two Capesize bulk carriers currently under construction at Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd in the Republic of Korea. The charter is for a period of five years from the deli
Fishing communities in Devon and Cornwall are suffering high levels of poverty, according to a new report. Seafarers UK says fishermen’s families are more likely to have low incomes, debt, and suffer ill health and bereavement, than other occupations.
On Friday evening May 18 2007, the VO 70 Mean Machine of skipper and CEO Peter de Ridder smashed the record of the North Sea Race, organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club and part of the ABN AMRO North Sea Regatta.
