Ha Long shipyard, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), has launched Tay Son 3, a cargo ship with a capacity of 12,500 tonnes. This is the third of eight ships of the same kind the shipyard is building for the Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines). Vinashin
Port Elizabeth – The owners of the trawler that sank near Port Elizabeth on Sunday after colliding with a container vessel, are still investigating ways to recover bodies that might be trapped in the wreck. That’s according to the Mossel Bay municipality.
Keppel Corp said its unit Keppel Fels is in talks with Denmark’s AP Moeller-Maersk for the the possibility of supplying Maersk with a semi-submersible drilling rig. ‘We are currently in talks with them (Maersk) for the (potential) design and construction of semi-submersible drilling rig,’ a Keppel C
In a desperate bid to achieve at least four million barrels daily production capacity by year 2006, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has given nod to Total’s request to begin developing the 225,000 barrels per day Akpo field. Located on the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 130, also in the
Malaysia International Shipping Corp Bhd (MISC) has signed preliminary agreements with two European groups to enable it to move into the global oil and gas market. The shipping company said it has signed an initial accord with Norway’s Bergesen Worldwide Ltd, a leading provider of floating productio
Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd. has awarded a $1.08-billion lump sum turnkey contract to Technip as leader in consortium with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the engineering, procurement, supply, construction, and offshore commissioning of an FPSO for the Akpo field development offshore Nigeria. The Akpo f
Maritime safety authorities have launched an investigation into the deaths at sea of 14 South African chokka fishermen after a tanker collided with their trawler off Port Elizabeth. The 14 men are believed to have drowned when their 30-metre steel fishing vessel, the Lindsay, was hit by the 20 000-t
Dubai, which is the regional leader in waterfront development, will see more coastal development projects in the future, according to Khalid Bin Sulayem, Director General, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, Government of Dubai. Opening the Waterfront 2005 Dubai exhibition and conference a
New bids for the first phase of deepening the Columbia River channel are closer to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates, putting the project on track for a timely start-up, corps officials said. Three companies presented their cost estimates to get the project under way as early as this month. The
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s largest shipbuilders, won Iranian contracts worth almost $1 billion to build 10 oil tankers, an Iranian official said. National Iranian Oil Tanker Co. will award the contracts to South Korea-based shipbuilders Dae
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are lining up to save the military’s shipbuilding programs, which promise to be central to budget negotiations when House and Senate authorizers meet to mark up the fiscal 2006 defense authorization bill. With members of both parties concerned about the details o
The town of Sanford has the largest population of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employees. 392 people who work at yard live in the town. People who live there are hopeful the shipyard will stay off the Pentagon’s list of base closures.
Starting today, 25 medium-sized Coast Guard cutters will be repaired at Baltimore’s Coast Guard Shipyard. Commanding officer Captain Ron Rabago says the project will take eight to ten years. He says, when completed , the aging ships will be equipped with the latest navigation equipment, so they can
New Zealander Russell Coutts moved into a tie for the career victories lead on the Swedish Match Tour yesterday with his second straight triumph in the Toscana Elba Cup – Trofeo Locman. Coutts won the event, Stage 5 of the 2004-’05 Swedish Match Tour, with a 3-2 victory over Australian Peter Gilmour
