Kidnapping for ransom has become a booming business in Nigeria’s oil producing region, the Niger Delta, and as the country prepares for April’s general elections, the trend sees no sign of waning.
LERWICK Port Authority is to lobby the Scottish Executive to speedily issue a harbour revision order, which would allow the port to create new land for development.
Those who take their megayachts to Monaco this summer will have a new place to go if trouble occurs. La Ciotat, the new shipyard from Monaco Marine and Semidep may be the largest megayacht facility in the Mediterranean.
A full investigation is to be carried out into how a passenger ferry collided with a cargo ship on the River Mersey.
Pembrokeshire could overtake Neath Port Talbot as Wales’ top emitter of carbon dioxide if plans for an £800m gas fired power station proceed, it is claimed.
The final phase of a project to save a fish dating back to the Ice Age which was native only to one lake in Gwynedd has been successfully completed.
PortFolk formulated questions to interview by e-mail a representative or director of the Port of Rotterdam, within the meaning of publish interviews with the directors of the ten most important ports in the world.
On Wednesday 21st February, Shell is holding a webcast on the subject: “Carbon Management Technologies” featuring Graeme Sweeney, Executive Vice President, Shell Renewables, Hydrogen, CO2 and Power. A question and answer session will follow an introductory presentation.
The crew of a ship who barricaded themselves in their cabins in a row over wages are seeking to have the vessel arrested.
Salvage experts in charge of the recovery of the MSC Napoli, grounded off Lyme Bay in Devon, are planning to remove the ship from the coast.
A marine expert from the South West says the future of the fisheries industry in Cornwall and the rest of British Isles is in serious danger.
Thames Water has admitted it is responsible for a second sewage spill at a Berkshire beauty spot.
Rescue workers have recovered bodies of 15 children and three men from a school trip boat accident in India, officials say.
Japan is likely to decide next week whether its disabled whaling vessel Nisshin Maru can resume operations.
