Underwater steel cutting continues with a team of five divers onboard the Rena each day. The underwater work is a particularly difficult and potentially dangerous phase of the Rena wreck reduction. Divers need to navigate numerous underwater obstacles just to get into a position to cut steel This week has seen the Resolve crane barge [...]
![Singapore Continues Its Investment in Maritime Sector]()
Minister for Transport, Mr Lui Tuck Yew, announced enhancements to the existing Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF) and exemption of Maritime Welfare Fees, as the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) continues its investment in the maritime sector to develop Singapore as an international maritime centre. Enhancements to Maritime Cluster Fund’s Manpower Schemes To [...]
September 28, 2012 | Posted in
Asia Pacific,
Company News,
Featured,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Port News,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipping News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
Steel removal from the Rena wreck continues with daily helicopter operations using McDermott Aviation Bell 214 heavy lift helicopter. The total steel weight landed ashore is now more than 650 tonnes. Salvage (Resolve Salvage & Fire) The Salvage Master for Resolve Salvage and Fire, Francis Leckey, said that positive helicopter progress now allows Resolve to [...]
![New Zealand: RCCNZ Continues to Monitor Fishing Boat that Caught Fire]()
All 43 crew of the 64m New Zealand fishing boat Amaltal Columbia, owned by Talley’s, have abandoned ship and been transferred to two other fishing vessels following a fire on board, approximately 70km north-east of Lyttelton Heads. A total of 39 members of the crew are now safely on board the Russian fishing vessel, [...]
The cleaning up of the oil spill following the collision between Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier “Sunny Horizon” and Korean-registered Liquefied Petroleum Gas carrier “DL Salvia” continued today. As at 1700hrs, Singapore’s waters around the affected area are generally clean, with only patches of sheen sighted near the Jurong Island T-bund and Tuas View Extension. The [...]
Air pollution from Port-related sources continues to drop as cargo rebounds at the Port of Los Angeles. New data shows that from 2005 to 2011, cumulative harmful emissions at America’s No. 1 trade gateway plunged as much as 76 percent while container volumes increased 6 percent. On a year-to-year basis, there has been a decrease [...]
![JAMSTEC’s Chikyu Continues Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project Expedition]()
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), deployed the Deep-Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu for 54 days from April 1 to May 24 to conduct the Expedition 343 for Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project. After this expedition, repair of the D/V Chikyu’s azimuth [...]
June 29, 2012 | Posted in
Asia Pacific,
Company News,
Dredging News,
Featured,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Offshore News,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Top Stories |
Read More »
BLG handled 520,000 vehicles at its Bremerhaven Auto Terminal in the first quarter of this year. Compared to the already strong period in the previous year, this represented a further increase of 7.2 percent. In 2011 the total cargo handling volume at the terminal came to 2.05 million vehicles. This meant that, after the severe [...]
April 6, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the news,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Port News,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipping News,
Uncategorized |
Read More »
![Canada: BMT Fleet Technology Continues Development of Contract Design Option for JSS]()
BMT Fleet Technology Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, announces that it has been awarded a 12-month, $9.8M design project to further develop the Contract Design as one possible option for the Canadian Forces’ (CF) new Joint Support Ship (JSS). Following on from [...]
March 15, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the news,
Americas,
Company News,
Featured,
Naval News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News |
Read More »
Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has reported year-on-year growth in South East Asia – despite what WSS Area Director Niall Denholm describes as a ‘stressed market’ for the shipping industry. “Our products and services portfolio is expanding and we see that our business within the region has continued to grow, largely due to the investment we [...]
March 13, 2012 | Posted in
Asia Pacific,
Company News,
Equipment News,
Featured,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipping News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
