Nine people are believed to have died when a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sumatra island last week, and around 30 people remain missing, officials have said. An Indonesian navy boat was trying to retrieve eight bodies of people thought to have been on board the ferry, which was carrying at least 133 p
PA Resources AB (publ) has completed the offshore installation of the entire platform incl. the main deck and flare boom in the Didon field in Tunisia. Subsequently, the company will shortly start to drill the first production well, Didon#5. PA Resources AB has now fully completed the offshore insta
Commercial discoveries and promising new prospects near Norne mean that this Statoil-operated field in the Norwegian Sea is likely to continue producing longer than earlier thought. When this discovery came on stream in 1997 from a production ship and five subsea templates, it was expected to operat
MISC Bhd, the world’s biggest owner of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, has placed a fresh order to build as many as four tankers, executives familiar with the matter said yesterday. The contract value for the four 38,000 deadweight tonne carriers is estimated collectively to be in the region of
Officials at the Bach Dang shipyard in northern Hai Phong city said Sunday that the newly built freighter that got hung up on its own launch rails has now been towed into the water without further damage. The Sun Island freighter was resurrected by high tide, after which it was easily towed to the w
BREMERTON — At the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, workers are preparing to transplant the nose of a retiring submarine — the USS Honolulu — onto the USS San Francisco, which was damaged when it ran into an undersea mountain in 2005. “A bow replacement on an operational hull is unique and has never been
Acergy S.A. today announced that it had been awarded a contract valued at approximately $125 million for a deepwater SURF installation project offshore Angola. The installation work is scheduled to take place during the first half of 2008.
The fleet commenced racing at 2100 UTC on June 26th, using a Le Mans starting sequence controlled by the duty skipper, Conor Fogerty on Cardiff. The following race start report is from Nicola Finan, also from Cardiff.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 26 (RIA Novosti) – Baltic Shipyard [RTS: BALZ] will not pay dividends for 2005 but will use the company’s net profit for development, the press service said. The net profit of one of Russia’s largest shipyards, which specialized in production of warships, large-capacity commerci
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Bangladesh shipping minister Akbar Hossain has died after suffering a heart attack, an official said on Monday. Hossain, 65, went to hospital in the capital Dhaka late last night complaining of chest pain. “Shipping minister Akbar Hossain, a veteran freedom fighter, died after a massive cardiac arre
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Multraship has added twin-schottel tug Hamtun (1985, 3.500 ihp, ex-Red Funnel/Adsteam) to its fleet. The tug has been renamed Multratug 16 and will mainly be deployed for harbour towage services in the ports of Terneuzen and Flushing and on the Terneuzen-Ghent Canal. Earlier this month the former Du
The first project, set to be announced in Halifax on Monday, will be the selection of a builder for the navy’s three new joint support ships. The $2.8 billion program was started under the former Liberal government. A consortium led by General Dynamics Canada is thought to be leading contender and i
