USACE Hires Team for Lock Mitigation
The USACE, New Orleans District has hired a team to help implement a $33 million Community Impact Mitigation Plan for Industrial Canal lock-replacement in New Orleans.
Oil Prices Consolidate Gains As Ministers Back Cuts Continuation
Oil prices last Tuesday (Oct. 26) consolidated recent gains, moving sideways after a bounce last week. International benchmark Brent crude traded seven cents higher…
World's Biggest Cruise Liner Set To Sail To U.S.
The world's biggest cruise liner, the 311-m (1,035-foot) Voyager of the Seas, will set sail this week from Finland to the United States. The $500 million vessel…
Lazard Frères Renews 'Buy' Rating For NNS
Based on Newport News Shipbuilding's second quarter earnings increase, strong third quarter performance and high expectations for fourth quarter revenues, research firm Lazard Frères & Co.
The Profits Black Hole: Container Shippers Still Unable To Turn Growth Into Profit
A new report from Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd., titled "Container Market Outlook," estimates that in 1998 carriers lifted 14.7 percent more cargo than in 1996 (more than 7.2 million teu)…
Milosevic, Not Debris, Is Blocking Danube Shipping
NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson said that Serbia could not expect help to clear the Danube waterway of Kosovo war debris as long as Slobodan Milosevic remains president of Yugoslavia.
