The US oil corp. ENSCO said Monday a jackup rig was damaged while preloading offshore Vietnam and may be out of service for 60 days. No employees were injured and there was no environmental damage, the company added. Preliminary inspection indicates relatively minor damage to the rig, which has been
Federal grants, including $2.4 million announced this week, will help pay for a new Ocracoke ferry and improvements to its Manns Harbor shipyard. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday that it will help fund an enclosed paint building at the Manns Harbor Maintenance Facility , said J
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today delivered the USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE 1) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is named after Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led a legendary exploration of the American West from 1804 to 1806. USNS Le
The U.S. Navy is christening a ship named after American Indian guide Sakakawea, who joined famed explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in North Dakota and accompanied them to the Pacific Northwest. The ship, which will transfer cargo to other ships at sea, will be named the USNS Sacagawea, f
At least five persons were feared to have been killed on Tuesday as a vessel carrying petroleum product burst into flames at the Beachland Estate, Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos. The explosion, which occurred at the Obat Petroleum Depot, also left some others seriously injured. Two of them are said to be in c
It appears the B.C. government has a new ally in its effort to have the longstanding moratorium lifted on offshore offshore oil and gas exploration. The Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern B.C. has struck a deal with the province to obtain more information about offshore exploration. The president
Malta Maritime Authority (MMA) report excellent progress by Transas in the installation of the Malta VTMIS. On the 5th of June 2006, Transas Limited started physical installation work on the first radar site. Preparation, planning and project management tasks have been progressing as planned since t
For eight years it hasn’t existed – but yesterday Whangarei’s worst-kept secret was wheeled into the sun for the first time. With the radio mast and navigation equipment now fitted, the 65m superyacht built for reclusive multi-millionaire John Spencer is too big for the giant shed it was built in. T
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 said today that a new phase of cleanup at the upper river portion of the Sheboygan River and Harbor Superfund site begins this week. The project will continue under EPA supervision, in consultation with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, through
The RNLI at Lough Swilly has called for the harbour to be dredged after it was unable to deploy its big rescue boat today. The boat could not be deployed because of low water levels in the bay caused, the RNLI says, by the failure to dredge the harbour.
The Jamaican media got a taste of life onboard a Clipper 68 racing yacht on Tuesday when they went for a sail on Durban Clipper out of the newly named Errol Flynn Marina. Twelve journalists from the Caribbean island were showed the ropes by Cardiff Skipper Conor Fogerty and crew members from Durban
The crew and skippers of the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race experienced a taste of Hollywood on Tuesday night as Patrice Wymore Flynn, widow of the legendary 50s movie star, Errol Flynn, made a star appearance at the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race prize giving ceremony for Race 9
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The stage is set for the final act of the 2006 America
