Six months ago, Carnival Cruise Lines’ 46,000-ton Holiday sailed out of its Mobile home port for the first time – sparking hopes of increased tourism and a shot in the arm for downtown. While the city is still a rookie in the cruise business, local officials say they believe the ship has been succes
By August, fishing and tour boats will have a safe passage along Sungai Kuala Besut when a dredging project to deepen the river is completed. Some 5,000 fishermen and 200 tour boat operators plying from the river jetty to Pulau Perhentian will benefit from the RM6 million project to be carried out o
The contractor for the Hudson Channel dredging project is asking for a six-month extension and a pay increase to finish work on the 2.1-mile maritime pass. Subaqueous Services Inc. has told county leaders it needs additional time to remove rocks and sand from a 40-foot area that is being widened to
Sailing from Newport to New York. Well, it was time to get the boat down to New York. We have got a busy schedule booked in for Friday and Saturday, and we wanted to start our trip back across the Atlantic from where we will be starting the leg of the race next year.
With more cruise lines pushing to base ships at ports outside of Florida, an increasing number of passengers are starting their voyages out of the former Navy yard in South Philadelphia. More than 92,000 travelers – a 50-percent increase over last year – are expected to board ships at the Cruise Ter
Solutions to the logistics challenges arising from the boom in Arabian Gulf petrochemical production will create spin-offs for other industrial sectors involved in international trade. The region is set to become the world’s biggest user of sea transport, logistics services, and cargo-handling facil
China will spend 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in improving the navigable capacity on the Yangtze River, the country’s longest, in 17 years, an official said yesterday. The money will be spent in dredging of the river’s lower reaches, expanding the middle reaches, and extending the navigable cour
Trends continue to sweep the international shipping freight market, especially in the tanker segment. And with the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) making a downward revision in demand forecast for the first time in many months, the shipping industry does not anticipate the freight mark
The hole left when a 154-foot boat sails out of a shipyard is more than just the space it once occupied, as Hodgdon Yachts learned when the ketch Scheherazade floated away in 2003. The super yacht was, at the time, the largest of its kind under construction in the Western Hemisphere. It took four ye
The Piracy Centre of the London- based International Chamber of Commerce has been churning out reports of sea robberies in the Straits of Malacca and classifying them as piracy. The classification is contrary to international law. The Piracy Centre labels an incident against a ship or crew within na
INS “Sindhughosh,” a diesel- electric Indian naval submarine, was launched today at a shipyard in northern Russia after deep upgradation with a cruise missile complex and sonar system. Launched with the breaking of coconut and uncorking of Champagne, Sindhughosh (Sea Soul) is the third Kilo class su
When Port Canaveral passed Port Everglades near Fort Lauderdale in cruise-passenger traffic several years ago, its leaders began billing it as the world’s second-busiest cruise port. However, the latest cruise passenger statistics tell a different story. If you count only multiday cruises on cruise
When registration for the 38th annual Antigua Sailing Week closed today 183 boats representing 27 different countries had registered to race in the granddaddy of them all. Racing kicks off tomorrow with the Dickenson Bay Race from English Harbour and will be tough for the next couple of days. Light
Mexico’s environmental agency has approved another liquefied natural gas receiving terminal for Baja California. The $55 million floating project would be built about five miles off the coast of Rosarito Beach by Moss Maritime, a global leader in LNG tanker construction, and Mexican partner Terminal
