Hanoi- The body of one sailor has been found and seven others remain missing after a ship collision in southern Vietnam, when a Chinese-registered gas tanker crashed into a Vietnamese cargo ship, an official said Wednesday. The accident took place near Lotus Port in Ho Chi Minh City at 1:50 pm Tuesd
Cochin, India- 16 May 2007–Since leaving Singapore just on a week ago, Earthrace found itself engulfed in the Bay or Bengal’s first monsoon of the season. According to Earthrace captain, Pete Bethune, on leaving Singapore, the forecast was for moderate winds only, but within 24 hours this had all ch
The home team, Desafío Español 2007, beat Emirates Team New Zealand on Wednesday for the first time in 10 tries at the 32nd America’s Cup. The Spanish team needed the victory – the result closes up the score in their best-of-nine Semi Final match to 2-1 with the Kiwis leading.
Cocaine valued at nearly £30m has been seized by the Devonport-based helicopter carrier HMS Ocean. The vessel is currently on patrol in the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
A Greek oil tanker carrying 81,200 tons of crude ran aground in Denmark but there was no immediate danger of an oil spill, authorities said Tuesday.
The Alabama State Port Authority on Monday approved specifics of its plan to build a $115 millon-plus terminal for transferring steel slabs from ships to barges in support of ThyssenKrupp AG’s plan to build a $3.7 billion mill in north Mobile County.
Pirates fired grenade launchers and machine guns at a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia, sparking concerns that key shipping routes are threatened, a Malaysia-based maritime watchdog said Tuesday.
Dolphin Offshore Enterprises India announced that Societa Cooperativa Nazionale Sommozzaton (CNS) has awarded the company a Contract, for saturation diving work in China.
JUNEAU, Alaska — A cruise ship that ran aground 49 miles west of Juneau near Hanus Reef in Lynn Canal overnight has arrived at a Juneau harbor for inspection, officials said.
Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won a major contract for the extension of the container port of Balboa, Panama, at the Pacific mouth of the Panama Canal. The work will be done in approximately 15 months from May 2007 on. The contract is worth approximately
Shipbuilding and support services supplier VT Group PLC said its UK shipbuilding joint venture talks with BAE Systems PLC continue to make good progress as it posted a 21 pct rise in underlying annual pretax profits to 74.2 mln stg, slightly above market forecasts.
If Roman Abramovich thinks he is getting a slice of the action with his £500m investment in Chelsea, perhaps he should take a look at Larry Ellison’s toys. That is because Ellison, who with £10.6bn is 11th on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people, compared with Abramovich’s 16th, actually ge
The Korean 3,800-ton cargo vessel Golden Rose sank off Yantai in China`s Shandong Province. A sailor of the Chinese container ship Jinsheng which collided with the Korean vessel said that they went on sailing after knowing their ship collided with Golden Rose, sparking suspicion that the accident wa
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (Nasdaq: HERO) today announced that it is taking precautionary measures with its liftboat operations in Nigeria because of the current unrest arising out of the recently held local and national elections and the resulting decision of its customer, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., to tem
