MDOT expects to award the contract for operation of the ferry across the Bay of St. Louis to an Indiana company that runs two ferries in Alabama, it announced Tuesday. Hornblower Marine Services, which opened its Gees Bend Ferry about an hour southwest of Montgomery on Monday, beat one other company
Mobile’s Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. has sold its 30 percent stake in Austal USA to Austal Ltd., Bender President Tom Bender and Austal USA Chief Executive Officer Greg Metcalf confirmed Tuesday. The deal, which Metcalf said was struck last week, was valued at $20.6 million, according to a repo
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; TSE:7011) has received an order for six M501G gas turbines from Florida Power & Light (FPL) for its West County Energy Center project in Florida. The order was received through Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA), MHI’s power systems operation base
The International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) has committed to facilitate the offloading of the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar 1, Governor JC Rahman Nava said on Tuesday. The IOPC, which is a worldwide group of oil refiners, will be the one to look for a company that could siphon t
As big questions hang over the country’s ports, new data shows the port of Auckland closing in on Tauranga in terms of the value of goods exported. The Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) figures for the year ended June show the value of exports through Auckland rising 14.6 per cent ($830 million) to $6.5
The Port of Melbourne has set a new monthly record in the amount of containers it moved in and out of the port last month. The record “throughput” totalled 177,906 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) – the industry standard container size – surpassing the previous best of 170,895 TEU in October 2005.
Cebu-based shipbuilding company Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) has made a commitment to invest US$100 million or roughly P5 billion in the expansion of its shipyard in Balamban town in Cebu’s western seaboard. THICI, a joint venture between Japan’s Tsuneishi Corp., one of the world’s l
Workers on Tuesday continued unloading cargo from a freighter whose hull remained wedged in a delicate coral reef off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. The 34,589-ton Clipper Lasco ran aground on Thursday, and Coast Guard officials want to make sure they don’t add to any
Three men had to be rescued from their yacht after it hit rocks and ended up on its side in rough seas off Devon in the early hours of Wednesday. The inshore lifeboat was launched to help the 40ft yacht, Ambition. The crew called for help after the yacht hit the Maer rocks off Exmouth […]
Drilling Rig Expected to Return to the Mubarek Field in Early November. Sky Petroleum, Inc., an oil and gas company with a development project in the United Arab Emirates, is pleased to provide an update on the drilling plans for the second well at the Mubarek Field. Sky Petroleum and Crescent Petro
The Ha Long Shipyard in northeastern Quang Ninh province has signed a contract to build a 54,000-tonne cargo ship for Vinashin Lines, a forwarding company owned by the Vinashin Group. The vessel, designed by the Science and Technology Institute of the Shipbuilding Industry, will be the largest cargo
Favorite Alaska cruise itineraries continue in 2007 with Holland America Line. Three Vista-class ships Oosterdam, Zuiderdam, and new to Alaska, Noordam offer more suites than ever before. Each Vista-class ship features 162 suites in seven categories, plus 461 (479 on the Noordam) Deluxe Outside Vera
It’s definite! Both Norwegian Crown and Norwegian Wind will retire in 2007. Norwegian Crown, which you may recall served originally with Royal Cruise Lines, moved to NCL and then was switched to the line’s sister company — Orient Lines — as Crown Odyssey, currently handles the seven night New York t
Sea NG Corporation (www.coselle.com) announced today that the American Bureau of Shipping (
