Some 127 people were feared drowned after a boat carrying 150 passengers sank off the port of Kribi on Cameroon’s Atlantic coast, state radio said on Thursday.
Hai Phong (VNA) – The Bach Dang Shipyard, a subsidiary of the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), delivered a 610-TEU container ship to the Bien Dong Transport Company on March 23.
In 2005, Royal BAM Group realised a net result of
Mexico and major shipping interests are bolstering Pacific ports south of the border, hoping to catch future docking runoff as an increasing tide of Asian cargo sails toward already clogged ports in California.
Two Australian fighter jets bombed and sank an impounded North Korean cargo ship on Thursday in what Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said was a strong message to Pyongyang about its involvement in drug running.
Just after midnight, the Queen of the North was pushing its way through the cold, dark waters of the Inside Passage when a massive jolt reverberated through the ship’s aging hull, waking passengers who had retired for the night.
Hanjin Shipping will start a new direct service between North China and the US West Coast called CEN (China Northeast Service) starting April 1.
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a US$132 million contract from a wholly-owned special purpose company of SeaDrill Limited (SeaDrill) for a KFELS B class jackup rig.
Employees working in the Scotstoun and Govan yards have given up the age-old tradition of the mid-morning tea break in return for
On wednesday March 22th, 2006 the Damen Double HOT was launched. The christening of the ship was done by Mrs. Jane Serjent, wife of Mr. Ian M. Serjent, Executive Director, Marine and Technical Services of the principal James Fisher Shipping Ltd. from U.K.
India’s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. has signed a shipbuilding pact with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for work to support the Los Angeles, Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia-class submarines. The total estimated value of the contract is approximately $248 million for work performed through 2008.
A ferry carrying about 100 people sank after it strayed off course in the early morning darkness on Canada’s rugged Pacific Coast on Wednesday, but officials believe everyone was rescued safely.
Exploration drilling on Statoil’s Uranus prospect in the Barents Sea has been completed without proving any hydrocarbons which are possible to produce.
