The fourth owner in about as many years has control of the city’s former Steuart shipyard — illustrating, property watchers say, the lucrative real estate market in rural Lower Shore waterfront communities. “There was a profit involved; you won’t die rich if you don’t get a profit,” said Rick Evans,
Lee Khai Leong, a lieutenant-colonel in Singapore’s navy, surveys the Malacca and Singapore straits from the bridge of a Russian-built container ship, and speaks of a maritime nightmare. Pointing to a narrow sea lane south of Singapore that carries a quarter of global trade and nearly all oil import
Trawlermen from 10 major ports across Scotland are joining forces to fish hundreds of tonnes of marine litter from the North Sea. The
For the first time in over two decades, a North Korean ship docked in a South Korean port Sunday, the start of a series of voyages to pick up fertilizer donated to North Korea by the South Korean government. The North Korean vessel arrived in the South Korean port of Ulsan Sunday evening, according
A search for a fisherman who fell overboard from a Dorset fishing vessel in the English Channel on Saturday has been called off. The accident, on board a Weymouth-based boat, happened 20 miles north of Alderney, in French territorial waters.
India on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Thailand for joint maritime patrols to prevent piracy and arms smuggling. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash and his Thai counterpart Admiral Sampop Amrapala, signed the agreement in Bangkok.
When the Base Realignment and Closure Commission report was released last week, Hawaii’s congressional leaders thought the net effect here could result in small gain of one job. A week later, however, a deeper reading of the report shows that 213 civilians at the Defense Finance and Accounting Servi
Draped in morning fog, the water near the mouth of the Cousins River was dark and quiet last week as Eric Horne and Valy Steverlynck motored upstream in their 22-foot work skiff. Below the surface, invisible to boaters, tens of thousands of oysters rested on the estuary floor. Horne and Steverlynck
Jean Pierre Dick (Virbac Paprec) lead the Open 60
At 1410EDT today, the first start gun will fire for the 2005 Rolex Transatlantic Challenge, the latest in a series of transatlantic races run by the New York Yacht Club since 1866. This year’s event celebrates the centenary of yacht owner Wilson Marshall and skipper Charlie Barr’s record-breaking ra
In order to prevent damage to the marine environment, the companies, Decal Panama and Ocean Pollution Control (OPC), holders of concessions from the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), carried out an exercise to demonstrate their expertise in the contention of oil spills, using the island of Taboguilla
Seafarer’s House at Port Everglades recently honored Nicola Arena at its 2005 International Golden Compass Award Dinner at the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach. The event attracted more than 500 people and raised more than $175,000. Proceeds went to Seafarer’s, which provides assistance
The work to salvage the sunken launch that capsized on Tuesday afternoon in the river Jamuna near Aricha , was declared abandoned yesterday with 150 people still missing. Joint Director (Marine ) Emdadul Hoque of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) formally declared the salvage opera
Government of India (GoI) has cleared Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project (SSCP) at a worst possible time. The whole of Palk Bay is reeling today, under an excessive stress caused by the December 26th tsunami. Most of its biotic and physical resources remain challenged partially or fully by the tsunami
