Dredge XI will clear a 13-km sediment-rich stretch in two years to create the 199 -km Sethusamudram canal between the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, paving a shorter sea route for commercial traffic headed to ports on the east coast.
Cunard’s owner, Miami-based Carnival group, had threatened to look elsewhere for a venue to launch its new vessel if a deal was not agreed before the end of this month.
Ports and ferries group P&O has agreed to a $6.4 billion takeover bid from Singapore’s PSA International, which would create the world’s largest ports company, the company said on Thursday.
Statoil has awarded Stolt Offshore an assignment to lay two pipelines from the Tyrihans oil and gas field to the Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea. The contract is worth over NOK 550 million.
BOATS have been damaged and birds and mangroves affected after a violent storm pushed a huge oil slick off the central Queensland coast into a marina.
Kota Kinabalu: Yayasan Sabah (YS) Shipping Sdn Bhd and Gagasan Carriers Sdn Bhd sealed a deal with a Korean shipbuilding company to build a RM74 million chemical tanker here Wednesday in an effort to venture further into the chemical transportation industry.
GROTON, Conn. A union at the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut has been told 169 union workers are being laid off next week.
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The Qatar Shipping Co recently took delivery of MT Umlma, the fourth newly built tanker from the series of six 105,000 deadweight ton vessels being constructed by South Korea’s Hyundai Shipyard
Grant Wharington, skippering his 98ft canting keeled super maxi Skandia broke his own race record in the Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong at Skandia Geelong Week today.
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The Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest cruise ship which is facing legal action by at least 250 passengers, is still running a day late and will not reach port until tomorrow, officials have admitted.
Marine engine sales were up 33 percent, primarily from increased demand for workboats and petroleum support vessels.
Despite the US navy’s seizure in Somalia last week of a suspected pirate vessel , Pirates have again hijacked yet another merchant ship off the coast of lawless Somalia.Maritime officials said on Wednesday.
