Posted to Dirty shipping business takes place prior to recycling
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
September 4, 2013
The hue and cry about casualties taking place at ship breaking yards may have died down after intense hostile protests by Greenpeace and other NGOs against the methods employed in ship breaking yards. They may have got measures in place to curb…
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
May 7, 2013
Some ports lend themselves, via geographic location or strategy, to transshipment. Singapore, for instance, had a throughput of 31.6 million TEUs in 2012, but more than 90 percent was comprised of containers in transit. Geographically, Singapore…
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
December 9, 2010
The dry bulk shipping business is going through a tough time. It is an incredible 80 percent down on the market peak in May 2008, and rates have led carrier operators on a wild and volatile ride ever since. The industry is currently oversupplied with bulk carriers…
Posted to Brazilian Subsea and Maritime News
(by
Claudio Paschoa)
on
October 12, 2010
With the expansion the complex on Fundão Island will occupy more than 300 thousand m² making it one of the largest centers of applied research in the world. There will be various laboratories designed to meet the technological demands of Petrobras’ business areas…
Posted to Indian shipping tonnage at record level
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
May 5, 2010
After a two-year slump, the Indian shipping tonnage registered a robust growth to touch the all time high of 9.71 million GT as of 30 April 2010. This buoyancy is expected to continue and the tonnage could well cross the 10 million mark soon…
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
April 6, 2010
The US Coast Guard adopted the concept of geographic districts when it absorbed the US Lighthouse Service in 1939. Previously, it had no formal segmentation of its chain of command based on geography. Rather, the chain of command was grouped around function.
Posted to On the waterfront
(by
Emma-Jane Batey)
on
December 24, 2009
The streets of London may have got just a little bit cleaner and safer thanks to a massive drugs haul off the coast of Northern Spain. Cocaine with a street value of £375million was seized from a large ship, a 150ft former coastguard vessel…
Posted to Brazilian Subsea and Maritime News
(by
Claudio Paschoa)
on
December 10, 2009
The challenges facing the exploration and subsequent production phase in the deepwater subsalt fields are extensive. The cost involved in deepwater E&P can get to a point where it isn´t financially atractive in terms of profit margins. One of…
Posted to THE BUSINESS OF SUPERYACHTS - BRANSOM BEAN
(by
bransom bean)
on
December 5, 2009
It’s been an ironic couple of weeks for superyachts and frankly, I don’t quite know what to make of it all. First Warren Buffett bought BNSF www.bnsf.com , then Nordhavn www.nordhavn.com finally sold it’s first 120 foot long, er, “trawler” joining…
Posted to Subsea
(by
Chuck Bunton)
on
December 1, 2009
The U.S. Navy will install a swimmer interdiction security system at Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bangor, Washington, that will employ teams of security personnel and specially-trained marine mammals to protect waterside assets and sailors. This…
Posted to Subsea
(by
Chuck Bunton)
on
November 23, 2009
Mexico and Ireland are the first two coastal States to implement Article 76 paragraph 9 of the Convention on the Law of the Sea by depositing with the UN-Secretary General charts and relevant information, including geodetic data, permanently describing the outer limits of their continental shelves.
Posted to Brazilian Subsea and Maritime News
(by
Claudio Paschoa)
on
November 12, 2009
Cenpes, or (Center for Rearch and Development Leopoldo Americo Miguez de Mello) was started in order to develop necessary offshore technologies that Petrobras desperatly needed with the advent of the begining of the big offshore fields discovered in the Campos Basin.
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