Human error was the cause of the latest crash of a vessel from Sydney Ferries’ accident-prone fleet, a report by the NSW Office of Transport Safety Investigations has found. No-one was injured when the RiverCat Betty Cuthbert slammed into a moored yacht and motor launch on January 11 this year after
Search for a semi-submerged Russian ship, the Kapella, began in the Tatar Strait near the Sakhalin port city of Nevelsk early on Monday. The tugboat Topaz, arriving from Vladivostok, conducts the search. Late on Thursday, the Kapella collided with an Italian ship, got a hole of about five square met
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a groundbreaking contract to design and build its first drilling rig for deployment in Brazilian waters. The US$270 million contract from Brazilian drilling contractor Queiroz Galv
An oil spill reportedly covering 100 hectares of Barangay Sangat, San Fernando town
Terschelling, The Netherlands. Transas took part in the MARSIM 2006 Conference in Terschelling, The Netherlands, from 25th to 30th June. This year MARSIM was hosted by the Willem Barentzs Maritime Institute in cooperation with the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Maritime Research Institute Netherla
With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai’s three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents. The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what’s billed as the largest land-reclamation project in the world, the product of five years of brute
BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. has begun an orderly and phased shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line. Shutting down the field will take days to complete. Over time, these actions will reduce A
BMW Oracle Racing capped three days of brilliant racing by claiming the prize for the German Sailing Grand Prix after posting four additional wins yesterday. On another sparkling day in Kiel, thousands of sailing fans and hundreds of boaters turned out again for the final day of the first-ever Ameri
New Zealand scored a one-two in the 420 world yachting championships off the Spanish coast today (NZ time). Carl Evans and Peter Burling won the gold medal and a second New Zealand crew, Simon Cooke and Scott Illingworth, won the silver, with both achieving the top placings with a race to spare. The
The second ropax vessel of the series of five sister vessels has been delivered by Fincantieri to Finnlines in Ancona, Italy. The name of the vessel is MS Finnmaid and she will start plying under the Finnish flag between Helsinki, Finland and Travem
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Monday that its West Coast refineries do not anticipate a crude shortage in the near term as a result of BP PLC’s (BP) decision to shut its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. The company’s 143,000-barrel-a-day Puget Sound refinery in Anacortes, Wash., does run a fl
A South Korean fishing boat with 25 crew members seized by pirates off Somalia in April has arrived in Kenya. The Dongwon-ho 628 was released after the alleged payment of a ransom of several hundred thousand dollars. Wearing tattered clothes, the sailors were greeted with cheers from diplomats and j
Rescue workers conduct rescue operation in the sinking container cargo ship “Hanlun” near Dachandao Island in Shenzhen of south China’s Guangdong Province on Aug. 5, 2006. The ship, which set off from Guangzhou, capital of Guandong Province, sank in the sea near Dachandao Island, with 8 crew rescued
A stricken bulk carrier, the Shearwater, that had been taking on water arrived in Durban harbour on Sunday, port control said. Water has been successfully pumped out of the carrier in heavy seas off northern KwaZulu-Natal and the vessel was no longer listing, officials said. Earlier a spokesperson f
