About 120 people were feared drowned after a boat packed with passengers and goods capsized on Ghana’s Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest reservoirs, police in the West African country said on Monday.
Military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday it received a $5.2 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Navy to study how the soon-to-debut Littoral combat ship can be modified to meet the needs of the Israeli Navy.
They call ABN AMRO ONE the Volvo Open 80 now, a recognition of the fact that it would take a boat bigger, longer and more powerful than the other boats in the fleet to beat her. But would ten feet longer be enough?
The freighter Runner 4, which sank off the Estonian coast at the beginning of March, released more oil into the waters of the Gulf of Finland during the weekend. According to Finland’s Environmental Administration, the spill involved about five cubic metres of light fuel oil.
SEOUL (Yonhap) _ South Korea’s shipbuilders ranked No. 1 through No. 7 worldwide in terms of order backlogs for the first time ever as of the end of February, a London-based market researcher said Monday.
The wind
A direct shipping route linking Greece with China was inaugurated Saturday in an agreement aimed at boosting commercial ties between the two nations.
More than 80 people have been injured in a collision between a high-speed ferry and a whale in Japan. It is the most serious of a spate of collisions between ships and the marine mammals.
The death toll from last week
Beijing: Four Chinese sailors were missing after their boat sank following collision with a South Korean ship early today in east China’s Shanghai Municipality.
The ship that sank off the coast of Estonia in March is leaking oil again, Estonian authorities said Friday. Finland on Sunday sent a coastguard ship and an oil combating vessel to the scene, but they were recalled in the afternoon after the Estonians said the situation had improved.
Ha Noi (VNA) — Ha Long Shipyard workers have been successful in fixing damage to the hold of the country’s largest vessel, the Florence, that caused it to take in water a mere hour after its launch in Quang Ninh Province on April 6.
One important change for larger tankers is that there is no longer a serious backlog of old ships that can easily be removed should market prospects look unfavourable, said the managing director of Intertanko, Peter M Swift.
“After the agreement reached between the Minister of Industry and Mining, Minister of Economics and the Minister of Petroleum, it was decided that 6 of 17 ships ordered to ISOICO are to be constructed in Iran, under the supervision of the named company,” said an informed official.
