ES Group (Holdings) Limited provided, Dec. 28th, an update on the delivery of the two bunker vessels – Sea Tanker I and Sea Tanker II. Sea Tanker I has arrived in Singapore waters and is currently undergoing local certifications and surveys. It is now expected to be delivered to the charterer by the first quarter [...]
Governor Rick Scott held a press conference call with Florida port leaders to discuss the importance of Florida’s ports during the ongoing negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) regarding their contract, which is set to expire Saturday, December 29th. Governor Scott said, “We are together on this [...]
National Chemical Carriers Ltd. Co. (NCC) of Saudi Arabia, owned 80% by The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announced that it had received on Tuesday, 4th December 2012 in Korea a new chemical tanker named ‘NCC SAMA’ from SHINAsb (previously SLS) of South Korea, as part of nine vessels previously contracted by NCC [...]
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Following a press release issued this morning regarding an intended offer for Dockwise Ltd., Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announces that it has acquired approximately 4 million shares in Dockwise in the course of trading today. This shareholding represents more than 10% of the shares in Dockwise. As previously announced, HAL Investments B.V. has irrevocably committed [...]
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The Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal will welcome the Cruise Ship RHAPSODY OF THE SEAS on Thursday 22 November 2012 with 2826 passengers and crew on board. The ship is scheduled to dock in the Port of Cairns at 0800 and stay overnight in the Port departing Friday 23 November at 1700. The cruise ship industry [...]
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Governor Martin O’Malley announced that 853,818 tons of general cargo were handled at the Port of Baltimore’s public marine terminals in July, setting a new record for most cargo tons in one month and eclipsing the previous record of 852,522 tons set in April of this year. General cargo includes containerized goods, autos, forest products, [...]
Incat Crowther announces the successful completion of the re-fit of the 43m Catamaran Ferry Seastreak Wall Street. Seastreak Wall Street was the third of four such vessels built by Gladding Hearn in Massachusetts, and was launched in 2003. The vessels were originally fitted with four Cummins KTA50 main engines, each producing 1424kW. The engines drove [...]
The Government will continue to support the construction of modern ships for the Naval Forces of Ukraine. This was stated by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov during his visit a public joint stock company “Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant”, which conducted a comprehensive repair of Naval Forces’ ships and construction of new corvettes. The PM has assured [...]
Princess Cruises yesterday marked the beginning of construction of the second of its new generation of ships with the official keel laying ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. At the same time the line announced that the ship’s name will be Regal Princess. The vessel, a sister ship to Royal Princess, will debut [...]
Festivities associated with keel-laying of the fourth Project 21631 corvette will take place at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard (Tatarstan, Russia) on Aug 29, 2012. Project 21631 corvettes (small-size guided missile ships) built for Russian Navy are multipurpose ‘river-sea’ class vessels equipped with up-to-date radioelectronics, missile and gun weapon systems, countersabotage and antiaircraft arms. Ships of this [...]
