The port of Yantian, a hub for LNG imports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Shenzhen area, will soon build out the infrastructure for large-scale LNG bunkering operations. In an agreement with the Yantian District Government, CNPC division PetroChina and Shenzhen Gas Group, the Yantian Port Group will build a 230,000 tonne-per-year bunkering facility, the Shenzhen International LNG […]
VSL Marine Technology Pvt. Ltd. is a 3D scanning & engineering company that specializes in ballast water treatment and marine retrofit projects. Their retrofit projects have been implemented on more than 100 vessels including tankers, container ships, passenger ships and supply vessels. This project is the first containerised deck house installation for VSL Marine – from […]
[By Elizabeth White] Many a discussion of the Bab Al Mandeb Strait starts with the translation from the Arabic name (Gate of Tears) as an introduction to the chokepoint’s woes. They are not wrong to do so. The Gate of Tears seems to be a place of permanent melancholy, surrounded by a depressing miasma of […]
On Sunday, the Vietnamese foreign ministry said that a Vietnamese fishing boat was attacked by two Chinese ships near the Paracel Islands, a Chinese-claimed archipelago in the South China Seas. According to the ministry, a Chinese ship with the hull number 4006 pursued and collided with the fishing boat QNg 96416 TS at a position […]
Scientists estimate that 50-80 percent of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. One particular species, Prochlorococcus, is the smallest photosynthetic organism on Earth. But this little bacteria produces up to 20 percent of the oxygen in our entire […]
[By Nora L. Chidlow and Arlyn S. Danielson] Launched in 1912 and christened the Miami, Coast Guard Cutter Tampa was part of a small but nimble fleet of revenue cutters that patrolled American coastal waters. After the sinking of Titanic on April 14, 1912, cutter Miami’s Florida cruising missions of maritime law enforcement, search and […]
On Saturday – almost three years to the day after she collided with a container ship off Yokosuka – the destroyer USS Fitzgerald departed Ingalls Shipbuilding to return to her homeport in San Diego. The departure ends a two-year effort to restore and modernize the ship. In the collision with the boxship ACX Crystal, Fitzgerald suffered a […]
On Saturdday, U.S. Coast Guard servicemembers from Elizabeth City, North Carolina rescued two people and a cat from a sinking houseboat on the Scuppernong River in Albemarle Sound. Coast Guard watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received notice from a local 911 call center reporting that two people and their cat were aboard a […]
[By Helen Farr and Fraser Sturt] The RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the North Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private company was granted permission to recover the artefact from […]
The negotiating committee for Bath Iron Works’ largest union has rejected BIW’s “last, best and final offer,” raising the prospect of a protracted labor dispute. The yard’s final offer would have provided a three percent per year raise for all workers while increasing employee health care contributions by five percent annually. It also would have increased […]
[By Kimberly Riskas] Finless porpoises are washing up dead or becoming stranded on Hong Kong’s shorelines in increasing numbers. The reasons behind the rise in mortalities are puzzling conservation groups. According to a new report, more than 40 of the small cetaceans were reported dead in 2019, making it the worst year for porpoise strandings […]
On Friday morning, salvors sent the very large ore carrier Stellar Banner to the bottom off the coast of Maranhão, Brazil, just four years after her construction and four months after she went aground. In a months-long lightering effort, the salvage team removed about 3,900 cubic meters of fuel oil and about 140,000 tonnes of […]
