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Former President Bill Clinton will speak Thursday morning at the Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard to celebrate the company’s plans to build 10 tankers at the former Navy yard that once went three decades without christening a new ship.
nch firm, Technip and Saipem of Italy, are known to be justling for the plum contract to build the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloding (FPSO) vessel for the huge Akpo deep offshore field. Indications emerged at the weekend that contracts for the FPSO construction might be awarded this week.
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd, a shipping company specializing in the seaborne transportation of dry bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grains, announced that it has taken physical delivery of MV Powerful, a Panamax bulk vessel. The Company also announced the simultaneous commencement of a two-ye
THE Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited shipyard will be leased out and the slipway upgraded as part of plans to restructure the organisation.
The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships together could hold every one of Miami’s 360,000 residents with room to spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.
Tokyo (JCNN) – Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) (TSE: 9107) announced on April 12 that it has signed a time-charter contract with Idemitsu Tanker for a new very large crude carrier (VLCC) currently constructed by Kawasaki Shipbuilding. The new VLCC, which is scheduled to be commissioned by December 20
A top executive at German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems played down expectations for an early creation of a Europe-wide shipbuilding group, along similar lines to European aerospace giant EADS.
The future of shipbuilding in the United States requires national commitment and the nation and Congress need to determine the ship requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Navy, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems President Phil Dur told a U.S. Senate Armed Services subcommittee Tuesday
A fishing boat which sank with the loss of seven men did not have vital flood prevention equipment and twice had to be baled out by hand in the months before the tragedy, a court heard today.
Actor Johnny Depp may make an appearance in Wellington in February – joining fellow Pirates of the Caribbean stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. Depp, Bloom and Knightley will crew a boat in the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race. Bloom will cover Cape Town, Melbourne and Wellington, where compet
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Team Alinghi was officially welcomed to Valencia at a ceremony in the Valencian Town Hall earlier today. The event was headed by Mayoress Rita Barbera, and President of the Valencia Region Francisco Camps welcomed the 104 members of Team Alinghi to Valencia.
The Shipping Ministry has proposed the setting up of two shipbuilding hubs, including a Rs. 2,100-crore world-class facility in Kochi contiguous with the special economic zone proposed on land owned by Cochin Port Trust.
