The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) failed to complete dredging of the 20km long channel from Baghabari river port to Mohanganj in a month, which was scheduled to be completed within 15 days.
AUSTRALIA’s second export LNG (liquefied natural gas) project has commenced operations with the arrival of a carrier in Darwin to load the first cargo from ConocoPhillips’s Wickham Point plant.
French rescue workers were hoping to tow the vessel to Le Havre, in France, before it went down in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
According to Team movistar the heavier weight of the stainless rams in relation to the titanium ones they’ve replaced, has forced the team to shed some weight off the bulb to meet the Volvo Open 70 Rule.
To cope with the bulging container traffic on the 22.5-km-long main harbour channel shared by both the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), MbPT will be sharing the channel deepening costs with JNPT.
Keppel AmFELS has received a fifth order from Scorpion Offshore (Scorpion) for a jackup rig valued at US$143 million.
MANCHESTER judge was at the centre of a passenger revolt on the world’s largest cruise ship. Hundreds of passengers aboard the Queen Mary 2 had threatened mutiny after damage to the ship prevented any stops for nearly two weeks.
The abundance of big tankers, the so-called very large crude carriers (VLCCs) of some 300,000 deadweight tons, makes several analysts express reservations about the projected revenues of the category this year.
National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., a subsidiary of General Dynamics, announced Tuesday it has received a contract option from the U.S. Navy to build an additional ship under the T-AKE program, a new class of combat logistics force ships.
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $9 million modification to an existing contract for submarine modernization and related work at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics .
Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) today announced that its report of drilling rig status and contract information covering the company’s offshore drilling fleet has been updated as of January 31, 2006.
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) is pleased to announce a sale of their naval architecture software to Bharati Shipyards of Mumbai, India. Bharati Shipyards is engaged in the design and construction of sea-going, coastal, harbour, and inland vessels.
SAN DIEGO NASSCO shipyards is set to build another combat logistics ship for the U-S Navy. The shipyard already has orders to build nine T-AKE class ships for the Navy.
Thousands of spectators will watch the launch of the navy’s newest warship at the Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow this afternoon.
