Japan’s largest shipping group, NYK, considers Vietnam an attractive investment destination and plans to pour at least US $200 million in the country in the coming time, said the group’s chairman.
SINGAPORE Shipowners are rushing to order oil tankers from yards including Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea before stricter design rules take effect Saturday, increasing the cost of vessels.
SINGAPORE Shipowners are rushing to order oil tankers from yards including Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea before stricter design rules take effect Saturday, increasing the cost of vessels.
On 4 January 2006 Aker Yards and ALSTOM announced their intention to join forces in shipbuilding. Aker Yards has been notified by the European Commission that it has no objections to the intended transaction.
A Sun Cruz casino ship ran aground in Dania Beach Monday night after losing engine power, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
The defence ministry has decided to expand the shipbuilding and repairing capacity of Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited. As part of a proposed expansion plan, a unit each at Haldia and Garden Reach will be set up in five years
The Federal Opposition says the discovery of an unmanned ship drifting in Australian waters last week calls into question the Government’s border security.
The Great Eastern Shipping Company on Monday took delivery of a newly built OSV named `Malaviya Twenty Five’ from Bharati Shipyard Ltd.
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Passengers on the Carnival Cruise Lines’ ship Sensation returned today from a four-night cruise, many with complaints about conditions on the ship, including six passengers who were kicked off the vessel.
“There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay,” said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. “We have worked on two — one from 1559 and another from 1705. But no one has found one buried on land. This was quite a surprise to everybody.”
THE most famous ocean liner in the world will return to the River Mersey to mark the official opening of Liverpool’s planned cruise ship berth in September, 2007. Cunard’s majestic Queen Elizabeth 2 will call at the line’s former world headquarters
Gdynia Maritime School Ltd. in Poland has decided to upgrade their Polaris Ships Bridge Simulator to the latest version. The upgrade will contain new features like AIS, EDCIS, ice navigation and an upgrade of the visual system from SeaView R4 to SeaView R5.
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Over 2005 we realised a turnover of EUR 1,002 million (2004: EUR 763 million). Our company has benefitted from the turnaround in the market. The net profit of EUR 42 million is more than double that of 2004 (EUR 16 million).
