Egypt put its installations along the Suez Canal on high alert over the weekend after receiving warnings of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida on ships in the strategic waterway.
Significant shifts in the employment level at Electric Boat are not unusual, and are influenced by the number of new submarines under construction.
A record number of yachties is expected on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf this weekend for the 2005 Sir Peter Blake Memorial Regatta.
We arrived in St Lucia at about 1020 local time this morning, with around 100L of fuel remaining after we gassed up, which took over an hour of time to deal with on island time. Owner and crew are doing well, rum punches from the local chamber of commerce were well received.
port’s last line of defense against a terrorist bomb. When the siren wailed, police stopped the truck inside a terminal at Newport News, and U.S. customs agents moved in for a closer look. The search was almost routine.
The state-of-the-art Dubai Cruise Terminal recently played a host to German cruise ship Detuschland which arrived in Dubai for a two-day programme with more than 757 passengers and 260 crew members on board
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The ceremonial launching and naming of the first ice-class container ship took place today at the wharves of the Finnish shipbuilders Aker Finnyards.
Thousands of people have demonstrated in the Irish Republic to support ferry workers in dispute with their company over plans to introduce foreign labour.
Global container transportation company, NOL Group, has extended the reach of its operations in the Russian Far East with the establishment of new customer service and operations centres for its container shipping business, APL, in Vladivostok and Vostochny.
With the one-year anniversary of the Selendang Ayu shipwreck in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, we are once again reminded of the true tragedy of this incident. With different decisions onboard and adequate rescue tugs on-station, the disaster was almost certainly preventable.
LONDON – Plumbing new depths. China’s largest offshore oil group, CNOOC, says its parent company plans to mine the briny deep of the South China Sea next year for oil and gas…
Connecticut won a major reprieve in August when the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission decided against closing the New London Naval Submarine Base in Groton.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Submarine builder Electric Boat will cut up to 2,400 jobs next year and warned that it could eliminate half of its work force in coming years as it faces a dwindling submarine market and a Navy policy directing repair work to its own shipyards.
