Cosco Busan Oil Spill Update
The Unified Command for the Cosco Busan oil spill continues response efforts as clean-up crews focus on beaches around the bay area. Ocean Beach has been partially closed as of Nov.
Trimble Awarded USCG Contract
Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) announced that it has received a contract from the U.S. Guard (USCG) to provide up to 400 reference station receivers over the next three…
G E Shipping Delivers Single Hull Aframax Tanker
The Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd. Aframax crude tanker Jag Labh to the buyers. contracted to be sold in September 2007. years aggregating 3.14 mn dwt.
USNS Richard E. Byrd Delivered
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), delivered USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is the third…
Ha Long Shipyard Launches Biggest Container Ship in Vietnam
Ha Long Shipyard successfully launched a container ship in northern Quang Ninh Province with its capacity of 1,750 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU), which is the…
Cutter Suction Dredger Delivered to Marg Constructions
Marg Constructions Ltd. has announced the arrival of its acquisition - A Cutter Suction Dredger named MARG Cauvery. MARG Cauvery, with a dredging capacity of 2000 cubm/hour…
Navy Encouraged by Appeals Court Ruling
Navy officials said they are optimistic that a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Nov. 13 ordered a lower court to rewrite restrictions on…
Golden Ocean Resells Six Bulk Carriers
A multinational shipping firm that has signed a deal to have its ships built at an Indian shipyard, which is still under construction, has already sold the ships…
New Manufacturing Plant to Open in Malta
The Ministry for Investment, Industry and Information Technology, together with the Italian firm Finultra SpA, recently announced the setting up of a new manufacturing…
Rutter Technologies Receives Second Order for RADAR-100S6 System
Since opening to deeper draft vessels in 1959, more than two billion tonnes of cargo estimated at $300b has moved along the St. Lawrence. The St. Lawrence Seaway…
Bush Signs Defense Bill, Includes $2.8B for Aircraft Carrier
President Bush signed a defense spending bill that includes money for the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier construction in Newport News and advance funding aimed at speeding up submarine construction.
SPP Shipbuilding Considers $300M IPO
South Korea's SPP Shipbuilding is seeking to raise about $300m in an initial public offering in South Korea next year, a person familiar with the situation recently indicated.
This Day in Navy History
Nov. 15: 1882 - LCDR French Chadwick reports to American Legation in London as first Naval Attache. 1942 - Although U.S. lost several ships in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal…
