Visiting Montenegro Deputy Prime Minister B Gvozdenovic, heading a high-level delegation, and Union Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T R Baalu today held discussions on areas of mutual co-operation and collaboration in the maritime sector, especially in the areas of development of port
Norwegian vessels building and rebuilding company Bergen Yards is mulling the moving of some of the production of special-purpose vessels to the production site of Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry (BSI), Bergen Yards marketing director Magnus Stangeland said.
Singapore and Malaysia ended a two-year dispute on Tuesday over Singapore’s land-reclamation works in a narrow strip of sea that separates the neighbours, the latest improvement in often-strained relations. Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo and his Malaysian counterpart, Syed Hamid Alb
Team New Zealand is close to securing another major sponsorship deal which would all but complete their funding for Valencia 2007. Rumours abound the new backer is a giant Spanish brewery. Team boss Grant Dalton is giving little away, apart from saying the deal is nearly done. However, Dalton admits
Northrop-Grumman’s Newport News Shipbuilding is challenging a report published in The Savannah Morning News on April 23, 2005, which alleged that a dozen shipyard workers who had installed protective foam inside the hulls of aircraft carriers said “they had fudged records or installed the foam contr
A committee of the Harbor Commission on Monday voted to enact a 5 percent increase in the port’s shipping services fees, including rates for using docks and storage of containers. It’s the first such increase in the port’s general tariff since December 2003, when the rate was also raised 5 percent.
Varun Shipping Company Ltd., has acquired its eighth LPG Carrier, Maharshi Devatreya, with a cargo carrying capacity of 35,559 cbm. With this acquisition, the company would now be operating a diversified fleet of 15 ships, the company informed The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE) here today.
A high power Steering Group has been constituted to formulate cruise shipping policy for the promotion of cruise tourism in the country. Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury informed the Rajya Sabha that the group had recommended formation of sub-working groups to look into issues like immigration, cus
A cruise ship hit a pier while docking in Mexico, cutting a 42-foot gash in the ship’s side and delaying its return to New Orleans. Nobody was hurt, but the 2,030 passengers will have to either fly back on chartered flights or wait until the repairs are done, said Michael Sheehan, a spokesman for Ro
There has been a sharp increase in the number of cruise passengers visiting Malta in the first three months of this year, the National Statistics Office said. The number of cruise passengers went up by 12,922 over the same period last year and amounted to 15,675. In the period under review, the high
Amels, a division of the Damen Shipyards Group, announces completion of the transfer of administrative and technical personnel from Makkum to its larger facilities in Vlissingen, in the southwest of Holland. Effective immediately, all Amels activities-including sales and marketing, naval architectur
The European Union on Monday prolonged until 2010 its arrangement for providing exemption to antitrust laws for shipping companies which team up to form consortia. The arrangement automatically excludes cargo shipping consortia from EU antitrust rules banning collusion between companies, providing t
On Sunday, 24 April, agreement was reached on a far-reaching form of co-operation between Samskip and the Dutch Kloosterboer Group whereby Samskip will acquire a number of coldstore companies that belong to Kloosterboer. This move will create one of Europe’s leading specialists in reefer logistics f
Marine police have set up three special units to give an “added punch” to their anti-piracy operations. Police internal security and public order director Othman Talib said the units handled combat dives, intelligence and special investigations. The units had already scored a major success with the
