On September 15, 2006 the namegiving ceremony of the LMG34PT project product carrier took place at the shipyard owned by SRC Laevaremondi OU, Tallinn. The tanker was built to the order of the Swedish company Svithoid Tankers AB. The tanker hull was constructed at the III International Shipyard. The
The Tokyo-based giant ordered a second 300,000-tonner at Universal Shipbuilding against a long-term charter from Chinese steel mill Beitai Iron&Steel Group. Earlier this month, NYK announced it had signed a 25-year charter with Beitai to import iron ore from Brazil. It will ship around 700,000 tonne
A lack of world-class infrastructure and high port and inland costs continue to limit India
More than one hundred thousand visitors are expected to descend on Southampton over the next 10 days for the UK’s largest on-water boat show. The annual Southampton Boat Show will be opened by trans-Atlantic rower and television star Ben Fogle alongside global yachtswoman Dee Caffari. From Friday, t
Northrop Grumman Newport News and General Dynamics Electric Boat have begun building larger structural sections to drive costs from their submarine building partnership, a key shipyard executive said Thursday. Both Newport News and an Electric Boat facility in Quonset Point, R.I., are each specializ
Stressing efforts to reduce costs and make delivery on time, officials with Northrop Grumman Newport News celebrated a construction milestone Thursday on its latest Virginia-class submarine, the North Carolina. The shipyard has finished welding the submarine’s four hull sections into a single unit,
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and the Program Executive Officer (PEO) Aircraft Carriers held a signature and awards ceremony Sept. 5 at the Washington Navy Yard to commemorate the certification of the ship specifications for the CVN 78 Class Aircraft Carriers, which makes up the CVN 21 prog
US Coast Guard in Ft. Lauderdale have spent Thursday night figuring out how to move a makeshift tourist attraction off the beach. The “Clipper Lasco”, is 645-foot cargo ship carrying 30,000 metric tons of bauxite, the main component in aluminum. According to the Coast Guard, the ship was inbound to
A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called for Ivory Coast to fully probe toxic waste unloaded by a ship, saying it should lead to prosecutions of those responsible and compensation for victims. The statement was issued by Okechkwu Ibeanu, U.N. special rapporteur on adverse effect
A gas discovery made by Statoil on the Tornerose structure in the Barents Sea is under consideration in connection with an expansion of the Hammerfest LNG plant in northern Norway.
Eivind Kolding, head of A.P.M
After the successful sea-trials, the breakthrough Wally 143 crossed the Adriatic Sea to reach the beautiful Kornati Archipelago of Croatia, for the photo shoot. Esense is the 43-meter (143-foot) high-performance sloop characterised by the innovative design both on deck and below deck, combining vint
SUBSEA 7 INC. (OSE Symbol: SUB) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately US $ 200 million by Esso Angola Ltd. for work associated with the Kizomba C Saxi-Batuque project in Block 15 offshore Angola. The Saxi-Batuque project will be developed using a conversion FPSO
The Suez Canal has reopened to very large vessels including supertankers after the authorities introduced special procedures in the deeper eastern channel, which is partially blocked by a sunken dredger. The authority had earlier turned away 10 large vessels because they were too big to go through t
