Pakistan on Monday alleged that the Indian Coast Guard has killed one of its fishermen in `unprovoked’ firing on March 18. Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam told reporters that an official of the Indian High Commission was summoned and a formal protest lodged on the incident.
Two Somalian ministers have been sent to negotiate with villagers who took hostage 25 seamen, including nine Indonesians, last week, the African country’s head of mission here said Tuesday.
Workers were loading a fin whale corpse onto the flatbed trailer on the bank of St. Lawrence River in Quebec Province, Canada, on April 10. It is said the 45-ton fin whale died after getting stuck in the propeller of a Danish cargo ship.
As the trade winds continue to breathe life into what once looked like the dying embers of the ABN AMRO TWO challenge, the youngsters
ABN AMRO ONE has stopped squeezing the concertina and has started to move the ends apart, sucking in the air.
There is a ridge of high pressure ahead of the boats, some 1,000 nautical miles away, which will stop the fleet in its tracks, but at the moment there is some compression going on as ABN AMRO ONE runs into some lighter winds. All the fleet close on the leader and at last ABN AMRO […]
MS Norilskiy Nickel, an arctic container vessel built under NB 505 at Aker Yards in Helsinki, was today delivered to the Russian MMC Norilsk Nickel, one of the world
Qatar is becoming a goldmine for Korean shipbuilders as the top three companies won orders for liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers worth $7 billion.
Low operating costs and increased payload capacity will be gained by the choice of W
The giant support structure of an offshore drilling platform, the largest ever launched in Asia, has commenced its voyage from Shenzhen city in South China’s Guangdong Province, the state media reported Sunday.
With launch site operations now underway at 154 degrees West Longitude on the Equator, the Odyssey Launch Platform is ballasted to its launch depth and stationed alongside the Sea Launch Commander (Assembly and Command Ship).
The floating port is a 250-metres long ship with 123,705 metric tonne of cargo capacity. This ship would help in loading and unloading of cargo from big ships which are unable to drop anchor close to ports owing to draught constraints.
Five tall ships and a government research vessel are slated to dock in at the Inner Harbor during visits late this month and in early May as part of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Baltimore, according to Sail Baltimore, a local nonprofit group that welcomes visiting ships.
A Singapore-flagged container ship is being towed to Salalah after it was severely damaged in a blaze during a voyage through the Indian Ocean, the Oman Daily Observer reported yesterday. The huge vessel, ‘MV Hyundai Fortune’, carrying some 4,000 containers
