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A huge cargo ship is set to cross the Atlantic Ocean this month with some help from a massive kite-like sail that could offset up to 15 percent of its fuel use on the journey. It's hardly a return to purely wind-powered shipping, but it's a start for the hugely polluting maritime shipping industry. "This is a serious attempt to reduce bunker [fuel] costs and...
A giant German tanker that ran aground in the Dover Strait yesterday morning was refloated last night and towed away by three commercial tug boats. The operation to pull the 90,465-tonne LT Cortesia off a sandbank took an hour. The German-registered vessel is being taken to an anchorage in an area called The Downs, three miles off the coast of Deal, a...
A large container vessel ran aground in the Dover Strait this morning and Dover Coastguard has sent the Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel, Anglian Monarch to render assistance and assess the situation. At 5am Dover Coastguard were in contact with the German registered container vessel LT Cortesia after Coastguard radar monitoring of the traffic separatio...
Malta Shipyards chairman and director John Cassar White has resigned from his post. Minister Austin Gatt accepted the resignation on Wednesday. Mr Cassar White said in a letter to the Minister dated 30th December that he will be unable to continue carrying out his duties as chairman because of ‘personal and family health reasons’. The Shipyards cha...
The keel of what will be the world's biggest passenger ship has been laid down at the Aker shipyard in Finland marking the beginning of the construction phase of what has been dubbed 'Project Genesis.' When completed the vessel will be 360 metres in length, have space for 5,400 passengers and be 40 per cent larger than the present record holder, accor...
A British cruise ship dubbed as "cursed" by some media after a bottle failed to smash at its launch has been hit by an outbreak of a vomit-inducing infection, reports said on Monday. The MS Queen Victoria was launched less than a month ago by Prince Charles's wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, but a bottle of champagne failed to crack open aga...
HYUNDAI Heavy Industries Co, the world's biggest shipbuilder, forecast sales this year will rise 16 percent to a record as it accepts more orders at higher prices for vessels to carry consumer goods and liquefied natural gas, Bloomberg news reported on Monday. Sales may climb to 18.06 trillion won (US$19 billion) from 15.6 trillion won this year, Ulsan...
Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering Co has launched the 10,000 teu Cosco Oceania. The vessel is the largest boxship built by a Chinese shipyard to date. The vessel will be delivered to shipowner Cosco Container Lines in about three months. Coscon has ordered a total of four 10,000 teu containerships from Nantong Cosco KHI, which will be delivered by early ...
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