Inland shipping is likely to play a more important role in China’s cargo transportation, Li Shenglin, minister of communications, said yesterday. Rail and road transport carry the bulk of the cargo across the country, but major inland waterways will be developed in next 15 years to share a larger pe
A major effort to try to reverse the decline in tuna stocks worldwide is getting under way in Kobe, Japan. Five regional bodies responsible for managing stocks of tuna, one of the most valuable and endangered species, are at the meeting.
Around 200 tonnes of oil have leaked from a cargo ship beached off the coast of Devon. Coastguards are confident the main fuel tanks have not split. It is believed the leaking oil is coming from the ship’s engine room. The MSC Napoli contains 3,500 tonnes of heavy fuel oil but the Maritime and Coast
The ss Great Britain has been short-listed for another prestigious European award. In May, Brunel’s only surviving ship, restored in her original dry dock in Bristol, won the Gulbenkian prize, with a cash award of £100,000.
NAUTILUS Minerals Inc has contracted Canyon Offshore to provide the vessel, a remote operated vehicle (ROV), and drilling equipment for a major exploration, evaluation drilling and environmental base line study programME, starting March, over its Solwara projects in Papua New Guinea.
Russian border police have seized a Japanese fishing boat in waters near a chain of disputed islands, officials in Tokyo have said. A spokeswoman for the Japanese Coast Guard said she did not know what had happened to the six people on board.
Feadship has announced the launch of the 67.00-meter (219’10”) twin screw motoryacht Anna. She is the largest yacht in terms of volume ever built by the De Vries yard in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. This latest scion of the Feadship fleet is being kept pretty much under wraps for the time being. Only
On January 12, ISA launched the motoryacht GEMINI, the fourth hull of the award-winning ISA 120 series. MY GEMINI, like the nearly all the models of the series, is the result of the close cooperation of ISA team, the architect Vallicelli and the Cristiano Gatto Design team the interior designer. MY
The seven Indian crew members onboard a merchant ship that was attacked by LTTE rebels off the Jaffna peninsula are safe, the ship’s owners said Monday. The MV City of Liverpool, which was damaged in yesterday’s suicide attack by Tamil Tigers, is now in the port of Kankesanthurai and undergoing repa
On the 19th of October 2006, Nakheel awarded the 115 million USD contract for the New Island Development to Jan De Nul Group. The project consists of constructing a new island 50 km offshore in 20 metres deep waters. The island will have the shape of a crescent and its primary function is to provide
Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited (“YRS”) is pleased to announce the successful skidding and floating off of the ‘Yacht Express’ at its yard in Yantai, Shandong, China. The ‘Yacht Express’ weighing 15,000 metric tons is the heaviest vessel to be built on land and skidded onto launching barges in China
The Azimut 39 Evolution, one of the Middle East Premieres that will be presented by ART Marine during the Dubai International Boat Show 2007, has just arrived in Dubai. As announced last week, ART Marine will offer to this Boat Show 3 Middle East Premieres: the Atlantis 50 presented in Cannes in Sep
So the city is pushing for not just more investments in its South Road Properties Special Economic Zone, it is also hoping to optimise Cebu’s beach attractions by setting up a marina. Tomas Osmena, Mayor, Cebu City, says: “We are going to put a mega yacht club for visiting yachts from Singapore and
SHE might be dating its US billionaire owner, but not even supermodel Kristy Hinze could resist making a splash on board Jim Clark’s $100 million super yacht Athena in Newcastle Harbour yesterday. While there was no sign of Clark – who is 36 years older than the 27-year-old Aussie bombshell – Hinze
