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  • Swedish Coast Guard to Somalia

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:22
    Preparations are already under way for the next Swedish contribution to the EU operation, which is expected to be the corvette HMS Carlskrona. She is expected to join the force sometime in April/May next year and take command of the EU-Navfor Somalia Oper...

  • Shipowning Companies Intership Navigation and Athena Marine: Five Stars for Excellent Quality

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:51
    Cyprus based shipowning companies Intership Navigation Co. Ltd. (ISN) and Athena Marine Co. Ltd. received the "GL Excellence - 5 Stars" certificate of classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL).  Capt. Eugen H. Adami, Managing Director of ISN/Athena,...

  • Taiwan’s CPC in LNG hunt

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:43
    Taiwan's CPC has tendered to buy three spot cargoes of liquefied natural gas for October to November supply. In the tender, which closed late last week, CPC requested two cargoes for Octobe...

  • Metal Trades Builds Hull for Barge Conversion

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:37
    Metal Trades, Inc. (Hollywood, SC) has built and delivered the outer hull for a double hull fuel barge conversion for Cross State Towing Company of Jacksonville, FL. The 256 ft long by 56 ft wide outer hull was designed by Glowacki Engineering to retrofit...

  • Garrett clams Montara claims

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:28
    The Australian government has hit back at claims that it is not doing enough to monitor marine wildlife in the area of the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea, while neighbouring Indonesia fears the slick may reach its shores. ...

  • Bangladesh looks to carve niche in small ship construction

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:09
    Dhaka: Local shipbuilders are banking on the ongoing recession to carve itself a position in the global market, as the demand for smaller vessels has increased, shipbuilders and analysts said yesterday, the local Daily Star reports.“Orders for small shi...

  • Drydocks World opens Batam training centre

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 11:38
    Singapore:  Drydocks World - Southeast Asia has  announced the official opening of its Training Centre in Batam, with facilities to develop the technical skills of the local workforce.Commenting on the occasion, Mark Biggs, managing director of DDW-SEA,...

  • Hyundai Heavy selected to take over Hyundai Corp

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:19
    Seoul: Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s leading shipyard, has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Hyundai Corp., a local trading company, the trading company’s main creditor said yesterday.Korea Exchange Bank said in a statement that STX Grou...

  • SRAB boosts finances

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:13
    SRAB Shipping has published its prospectus for a targeted share issue to raise SEK 35 million in additional capital. The issue is guaranteed. Some ten shareholders have agreed to take out shares corresponding to 25 per cent of the issue, without compensat...

  • Third Offshore Mariculture Conference to be held in Croatia

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:06
    The third Offshore Mariculture Conference will be held next year in Dubrovnik, Croatia from May 19 to 21, 2010. Aimed at growing offshore fish farming businesses, the conference will consist of two full days of technical papers exploring the progress and ...

  • Singapore: Major crackdown on shipyard safety

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:57
    The Singaporean Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has recorded 35 workplace health and safety code violations across nine shipyards during surprise inspections.In total, 25 fines and warnings were issued to the yards while the other 10 went to subcontractors wit...

  • Gradual increase in shipping confidence

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:28
    The latest Shipping Confidence Survey from international accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens records a continuing rise in overall confidence levels in the shipping industry over the past three months.   It also reveals a growing awareness o...

  • Chinese shipbuilding supported by stimulus

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:20
    The Chinese shipbuilding industry is being propped up by government financial support, according to Asiasis Daily News, the Korea-based online news service. The “Ship Industry Adjustment and Promotion Plan” was announced by the Chinese Government earl...

  • CG Monitoring Oil Spill Off Savannah Coast

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:12
    The Coast Guard is continuing to monitor an oil spill approximately nine miles offshore of Savannah after a tank ship damaged its double-hulled fuel tank during the deployment of the ship's anchor Sept. 27. The Singapore-based tank ship, Stolt Vision, rep...

  • Russia to build more icebreakers by 2015

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:07
    Vladimir Shtrambrant, the Chief Deputy of the Shipbuilding and Repair Yard of Rosmorport has said that the Russian Government plans to open a tender to build a series of icebreakers. Mr Shtrambrant said that Russia needed to build a series of 25MWt icebre...

  • Panama Canal awards contracts for Atlantic entrance dredging

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:01
    The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has awarded Netherlands-based Jan De a contract to dredge the canal’s Atlantic entrance. The ACP awarded the contract to Jan De Nul for US$89,617,317. The tender also included an option to dredge an additional 2.3 millio...

  • Venezuela, Vietnam to Start Producing Orinoco Oil by 2011

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:54
    Venezuela and Vietnam's state-run oil companies have begun talks aimed at agreeing on a plan to start producing oil together in Venezuela's Orinoco region by early 2011. "It is expected that within 18 months the crude oil production process will begin," s...

  • Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Launches 8th Tanker

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:48
    On Sunday, September 27th, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (Oslo: AKPS), a U.S. commercial shipyard, launched Ship 012. The eighth in a series of 12 product tankers to be completed by 2011, the 46,000 dwt vessel was floated off of its blocks and was transferre...

  • Grounded Tank Vessel Eagle Tucson

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:43
    A 33-ft response boat from U.S. Coast Guard Station Venice, La., monitors efforts to free the grounded tank vessel Eagle Tucson, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, near Pilottown, La., at the mouth of the Mississippi. The Eagle Tuscon grounded at approximately 2:45 ...

  • Nigeria: CNOOC in Talks for Onshore Oil Blocks

    Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:38
    The Nigerian government is in advanced talks with China's CNOOC Ltd. (CEO) over signing deals on several onshore oil blocks as the state-run company looks to expand its position in the West African nation by securing drilling rights that are going unused ...

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