A Vietnamese state-run giant shipbuilder has targeted US$1 billion in production value this year and aims to double it by 2010 through expansion, a top corporate official said.
Alaska’s lone congressman and its senior senator have been quietly pushing to move the Coast Guard cutter Healy (the nation’s newest and most-advanced icebreaker) from the Port of Seattle, where it has been based since its launch in 2000, to Anchorage.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited at Kolkata handed over the first of the new series of fast attack crafts (Yard 2051) to Indian Navy recently.
ABG Shipyard has secured a $29.7 million contract for the construction of three anchor handling tugs (90 tonne bollard pull) for offshore applications from Cyprus-based Lamnalco.
Volvo Ocean racer, Brasil 1 arrived in Fremantle today and has been lifted out of the water so she can be loaded onto a truck and driven across the Australian continent to Melbourne, for repair in time for the in-port racing on February 4th.
Concerns about protecting groundwater around the planned confined disposal facility led to the timetable change. The facility will house an estimated 4.8 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment to be dredged from the waterway.
Statoil has signed an agreement with Aker Kv
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Azimut – Benetti announces the opening of its new service and warranty base, located in Fort Lauderdale. This service is jointly managed by Federico Ferrante for Azimut and Bill Leonard for Benetti. The Azimut service team is in charge of the management and technical support of the Azimut Dealer net
Vinashin will focus on science-technology cooperation with partners in countries with developed shipbuilding industries, as Japan and the RoK, famous for building cargo ships and oil tankers; Poland for container ships; and the Netherlands for mud dredging ships.
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An official from the South African Maritime Safety Authority said the Farley Mowat, a ship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, did not have the required certification.
One of four Taiwanese fishing boats hijacked last year off the Somalia coast has been set free, Taiwan’s government says.
Nigeria is trying to win the release of foreign hostages in its oil-producing delta region and combat a separate problem of “criminality” there, President Olusegun Obasanjo said today.
