Celebrity Cruises is canceling its June 3 sailing on Summit and shortening by one day its May 27 sailing to replace a radial-bearing unit that is showing premature wear in the ship’s starboard propulsion system. The replacement must be made in drydock, so the ship will enter the Victoria Shipyard dr
Qatar Gas Transportation Co (Naqilat) plans to invest $3.5bn on gas tankers, bulk carriers and a ship-repair yard, its managing director said. About $2.5bn is for liquefied petroleum gas carriers and $1bn divided equally on a yard and bulk ships, the director, Robert Curt, said in London.
There has been a collision between an empty tanker and a bulk carrier 3.5 kilometres southwest of St John’s Island. The Maritime and Port Authority says the incident occurred at 8pm on Wednesday night. There were no injuries, nor was any oil spilled. The Liberian registered tanker, MT Chrisopigi Lad
Petty Officer 3rd Class Francisco Menacheca was a high school junior in Queens when the hijacked airliners struck the twin towers. Ensign Andrea Zenn was a student at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx that day. Both of them saw the devastation in downtown Manhattan from their classrooms.
The Philippines will once again be the center of the international community as organizers stage the Ninth International Aviation, Maritime, and Defense (AMD 2005) Exhibition on May 26-29, 2005, at the Philippine Trade Training Center.
During the 2005 China International Logistics Week held in Shanghai from May 18 to 21, Feng Zhenglin, vice minister of Communications said that China has eight 100-million-tonnage ports, accounting for half of the world’s ten largest ports. China now has become one of the most dynamic and potential
The volume of cargo passing through China’s ports every year is expected to rise by more than 50 percent in the next five years, a report said Tuesday. Communications Minister Zhang Chunxian, speaking at a conference in Shanghai, said the total cargo volume would rise to 6.1 billion tons a year by 2
Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng said the development of municipal ports is an important part of the city’s efforts to become one of the world’s key centers of business, finance, trade and shipping by 2020. He said so on May 23 at the 24th International Association of Ports and Harbors’ World Ports Conferen
Aker ASA said it and Kvaerner ASA have started to collaborate on setting up Aker American Shipping ASA, a company that will own Kvaerner’s shipyard in Philadelphia and 10 product tankers. Aker added that following the company’s creation it will consider buying Kvaerner out of the venture if a planne
The fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard could be sealed as early as next week, when several members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) visit the facility. William McDonough, a former shipyard commanding officer and spokesman for the Seacoast Shipyard Association, said yesterday
Shipping rates for dry-bulk commodities such as coal and iron ore fell for a third week, reaching their lowest in almost 11 months amid rising tonnage supplies. The Baltic Dry Index, which measures the cost of chartering different-size vessels on worldwide trading routes, declined for a 11th straigh
A timely intervention of the maritime administration has saved 68 passengers aboard a ship that developed engine problem, 100 miles off Nigeria’s shores. The ship, MV Praque Yara, flying Sao Tome and Principe flag, was said to have drifted for two days near Brass waters in Rivers State, before sendi
A cache of arms found by Indian police in a container at the port of Mumbai highlights fears that containers are being used to smuggle illicit weapons around the globe, security experts said on Tuesday. Bombay police confirmed on Tuesday they had seized 37 revolvers, 1,280 rounds of ammunition and a
Charles St. Clair Brown, skipper and part-owner of Maximus, figures he is a sure bet to break the oldest record in yachting and that he’s even money to win the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge, which took off from New York on Sunday, May 22. But in his wager with former duty-free king Robert G. Miller,
