The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has chosen Broward County and its seaport for the association’s first-ever global cruise event for travel agents.
Tap Oil reports that the Remus-1 well located in the Harriet Joint Venture Permit, TL/6, has reached the planned total depth of 2,823 meters. A thin sand reservoir containing oil was encountered at the top of the Double Island sandstone interval. No oil water contact was intersected with oil lying d
Kelvin Hughes has achieved a sale for the world
Top level talks are under way to steer a
Former President Bill Clinton will speak Thursday morning at the Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard to celebrate the company’s plans to build 10 tankers at the former Navy yard that once went three decades without christening a new ship.
nch firm, Technip and Saipem of Italy, are known to be justling for the plum contract to build the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloding (FPSO) vessel for the huge Akpo deep offshore field. Indications emerged at the weekend that contracts for the FPSO construction might be awarded this week.
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd, a shipping company specializing in the seaborne transportation of dry bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grains, announced that it has taken physical delivery of MV Powerful, a Panamax bulk vessel. The Company also announced the simultaneous commencement of a two-ye
THE Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited shipyard will be leased out and the slipway upgraded as part of plans to restructure the organisation.
The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships together could hold every one of Miami’s 360,000 residents with room to spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.
Tokyo (JCNN) – Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) (TSE: 9107) announced on April 12 that it has signed a time-charter contract with Idemitsu Tanker for a new very large crude carrier (VLCC) currently constructed by Kawasaki Shipbuilding. The new VLCC, which is scheduled to be commissioned by December 20
A top executive at German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems played down expectations for an early creation of a Europe-wide shipbuilding group, along similar lines to European aerospace giant EADS.
The future of shipbuilding in the United States requires national commitment and the nation and Congress need to determine the ship requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Navy, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems President Phil Dur told a U.S. Senate Armed Services subcommittee Tuesday
A fishing boat which sank with the loss of seven men did not have vital flood prevention equipment and twice had to be baled out by hand in the months before the tragedy, a court heard today.
Actor Johnny Depp may make an appearance in Wellington in February – joining fellow Pirates of the Caribbean stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. Depp, Bloom and Knightley will crew a boat in the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race. Bloom will cover Cape Town, Melbourne and Wellington, where compet
