Icebreaker delivered to Coast Guard USCGC HEALY (WAGB-20), a world class high latitude icebreaking research ship, was delivered today to the United States Coast Guard by Litton Avondale Industries.
Bassoe study predicts strong future demand for deepwater rigs With many deepwater rig building projects plagued by cost overruns and delivery delays, it's heartening that a significant new study finds that there's likely to be strong demand for them.
Clinton picks an admiralty lawyer for FMC President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate Antony Merck to serve as Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission.
Delusione nell'industria navale per il mancato varo di una vera strategia anti-dumping Cantieri, fumata nera Ue Per fronteggiare la concorrenza della Corea spunta solo l'ipotesi di un ricorso alla Wto
E si riduce la quota di mercato degli europei
Con i porti di Monfalcone e Capodistria Trieste fa rotta sulle alleanze
Lo scalo della Spezia riparte con 400 miliardi di investimenti
Korea set for gas carrier bonanza KOREAN yards look set to win further LNG carrier orders, with two Spanish owners needing four ships to fulfil charter commitments for the long-awaited Repsol project.
Largest European cruiseship floated out COSTA Atlantica, the largest cruise vessel able to sail through the Panama Canal to date, was floated yesterday morning at Helsinki's Kvaerner Masa shipyard.
OMI nine-month losses total $37m CONNECTICUT tanker operator OMI Corporation has continued to suffer from tough conditions in its core suezmax and product tanker markets, posting a net loss of $7.1m for the third quarter of the year and losses for the first nine months of $37.6m.
Maritrans records $2.9m loss as it restructures PHILADELPHIA-based Maritrans, which is in the middle of an extensive programme to restructure its operations, announced losses of $2.9m for the third quarter of this year, compared with earnings of $600,000 in the same 1998 period, writes John McLaughlin, New York.
DNV plan to visit India yards in disarray DET Norske Veritas' visit to Indian ship scrapping yards might be abandoned, but the society claims to be finalising a visit to Bangladesh early next year.
Condor Ferries' wave... Condor Ferries' wave-piercing catamaran Condor Vitesse has completed a routine drydocking at the A&P Falmouth shipyard in southwest England and sailed for New Zealand. The 86 m long Incat ferry will run an inter-island service between Wellington and Picton, South Island, for the southern hemisphere summer. The voyage is expected to take 23 days with fuelling stops at Malta, Suez, Djibouti, Dolombo and Australia. Condor Vitesse and Condor Express normally run between Weymouth and the Channel Islands.
Liner reforms start to hit carriers LINER shipping reforms are having a dramatic impact on business relations between ocean carriers and their customers.
'Dirty' tanker shock TANKERS COULD BE FORCED to carry reduced cargoes after an environmental study has revealed they are causing massive atmospheric pollution. The industry may be forced into a radical solution after the discovery that more than a million metric tons of oil a year is disappearing into the air through the practice of venting oil vapour from cargo tanks.
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