More than 70,400 acres of New Jersey oyster beds that were closed a week ago because of an oil spill in the Delaware Bay can reopen today, the state Department of Environmental Protection said yesterday. Oysters sampled from the most heavily affected waters showed no evidence of petroleum, the DEP s
Eight sailors were saved and one were still missing after a cargo ship capsized on early Tuesday morning off the coast of East China’s Fujian Province, said the local maritime bureau. The accident occurred at about 5:20 a.m. in the seawater near Jiangjun’ao of Zhangpu County when the ship Jinhaida-8
SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce that the Company has recently received a number of Letters of Intent and Contract Awards as follows: FPSO for Chevron, Frade, Brazil / Tanker Loading and Discharge Terminals for India / Basic Design Packages and Supply of Proprietary Hardware Components for J
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has received an order for 12 E-One RTGs (rubber-tyred gantry cranes) from South African Port Operations (SAPO). The RTGs will be delivered to the port of Durban in South Africa. The deliveries of the first six RTGs wil
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 May 1, 2006. Drilling rig status and contract information on Transocean Inc.’s offshore drilling fleet has been condensed i
Four Chinese workers have been killed on Monday during an explosion accident aboard a Singapore-owned oil tanker, the Chinese Embassy to Malaysia confirmed. An explosion, believed to be an accident, occurred Sunday evening aboard the Singapore-owned 300,000-ton age oil tanker “SUVA” as it traveled i
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $10,991,000 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 (NYSE: GD). Initially awarded in October 2001
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A group of alleged Somali pirates captured by the US Navy in March have been freed and returned home to Somalia after the United States declined to prosecute them, a US official said on Tuesday. Ten of 12 suspected pirates detained on March 18 after firing on US warships in the Indian Ocean off the
On Friday 28 April 2006, the launching of the 5,600m
Felixstowe and Harwich are at the centre of a boom in shipping volumes fuelled by Chinese exports. By Dominic O
Babcock International, owner of Rosyth shipyard and Glasgow
Bouwe Bekking’s movistar conclusively confirmed that they are the force to be reckoned with in the lighter winds of the Chesapeake Bay today when they earned their first In Port Race victory to partner that offshore Leg 3 win into Wellington. Having now only once finished off the In Port podiums, wh
It cost 25,000 lives to build and revolutionized shipping, but now Panama’s marvel of engineering is too small for a new generation of mighty ships and tankers. Six years after gaining sole control from the United States of the man-made marvel the world once dubbed the “path between the seas,” the g
