Emirates Dredging Company LLC (EDC) has signed an agreement with IHC Holland (IHC) to build one cutter suction dredging vessel and a land booster station. The dredging vessel to be delivered in 2007 is a 1,100 kw power-on cutter with significant cutting power for dredging both sand and rock. The lan
Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has constructed thirteen vessels including six corvettes under Baynunah program the UAE and the GCC Navies, Khaleej Times reported. Other new building programs include a 64-metre naval landing craft for the Royal Navy of Oman, a 42-metre landing craft for the UAE Speci
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A report submitted to Egyptian parliament has assigned blame for February’s Al Salam 98 ferry disaster, in which more than a thousand passengers died, to the ship’s owner and government transportation agencies. “The parliamentary findings showed up the situation at Egypt’s Red Sea ports,” said Hafez
RESCUERS have abandoned the search for a Chinese sailor presumed dead after falling overboard from a Liberian-registered cargo ship off the New South Wales coast. An intensive two-day search for the 51-year-old in waters north of Newcastle has yielded no trace of the man, who disappeared from the Ym
In line with its leadership strategy in modern offshore, BOURBON is expanding its fleet with next-generation, innovative and high-productivity vessels to assist its oil and gas clients in the development of their deepwater and continental offshore operations.
The Swedish authorities are trying to solve the mystery of a man calling himself a
The Nigerian government has expanded its bilateral relations in oil sector with friendly foreign countries in the interest of the national economy, a high- ranking Nigerian official said at the weekend. “The government has deliberately expanded the scope of its relations with foreign countries in or
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Fifty years ago on April 26, a trucker from Maxton, N.C., ran an experiment here that forever altered international trade and the global economy. While many scoffed, Malcolm McLean hired a crane to hoist 58 trailer-sized steel cargo boxes onto a Texas-bound freighter. It was an alternative to the th
BINTULU Port Holdings Bhd is realigning its activities and developing more facilities and infrastructure as it sets its target to become a world-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) port and the main port of the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines-East Asean Growth Area. While the main focus wo
UltraStrip Systems, Inc. (OTC BB: USTP), the Stuart, Florida-based technology incubator company for homeland security, marine, and defense applications, announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with Jian Huang Engineering Pte, Ltd. of Singapore including an initial sale of two of
BEIJING: A Chinese cargo ship which was reported missing in the Bohai Sea of north China over two months ago has been found sunk in the sea with 10 people aboard missing, local maritime authorities said. The missing were unlikely to have survived, said an official with the Maritime Affairs Administr
