Dependance on foreign ports for transshipment of containers destined for India will cease once the D. P. World’s Container Terminal in Cochin, South India being designed as a transshipment hub gets commissioned by June this year.

The stand on which a compass is mounted, and a piece of maritime history

A shortage of space on box boats heading east will drive shippers crazy this year.

With headquarters in the UK, Wellstream has invested heavily in the Brazilian O&G market since 2007 and currently has an ongoing contract with Petrobras for around 700km of flexible pipes. They are the acknowledged leaders in flexible riser manufacture in Brazil.

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The budget shows that federal help will become less likely

AngloEasternAcademy inaugurated and will meet its entire requirements of additional marine officers

Profits and container shipping are seldom mentioned in the same sentence these days, but for the more positive bulk business, the glass appears to be half full.

The state of art facility in Rio das Ostras completes two years of operation with excellent results and having made a lasting contribution to the region and to regional supplier chain growth.

The load line is a means of quickly ascertaining that a ship has sufficient freeboard and reserve buoyancy to remain afloat in the waters in which it is likely to navigate

In a bid to increase capacity JNPT will develop fourth container terminal together with the 330 Terminal project

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Areas of the marine environment that need special protection through action by the IMO because of their significance for recognized ecological, socio-economic, scientific attributes, where such attributes may be vulnerable to damage by international shipping activities

Republican response to State of the Union Address urges action to expedite expansion of offshore drilling in U.S.

Cuba has potential to have the best port to switch Panama Canal traffic

The Subsea Technology Laboratory (LTS), part of COPPE/UFRJ, was created in 1989 in order to supply the increasing demand for deep water technology. Among other important projects they may soon earn international certification for a fiber optic sensor calibration system.

The acquisition spree of the Shipping Corporation of India continues

Mean sea level (MSL) data at Grand Cayman Island is required to validate my assertion that the Loop Current (LC) intrusion depends on the difference in MSL between Grand Cayman and Settlement Point, Grand Bahama. How can we get Grand Cayman tide gages back in operation?

Multiple, separate, and parallel lines of responsibility and communication do not facilitate successful project management.

Back-to-back announcements of new building programs at shipyards in south Louisiana spelled relief for hundreds of workers after watching backlogs dry up

Matching supply with demand has never been a strong point with container lines, and 2010 is looking more uncertain than ever.

Prysmian announces investmens of around $115 million to start flexible pipe production in its Vila Velha, Espírito Santo industrial plant.

The multi-national satellite-based distress alert detection and notification system

Could there be a faint whiff of insanity in the air, emanating from the giant South Korean shipyards?

A navigation safety tool with a rapidly increasing number of applications – some appropriate, some questionable

UN officials told that the IMO Convention on Ship Recycling is a death knell for those involved in ship breaking in India.

Forgotten pioneer of nautical charting and publishing in the United States

Explains why Loop Current (LC) remains narrow throughout its passage through Gulf of Mexico (GoM), what controls its length, the extra hydraulic drive power that controls the length, and how to absorb the power with turbines and produce electricity for the shore grid. This keeps the LC from intruding into the GoM so that it does not accumulate a large deep pool of warm water that can energize a hurricane.

Four seafarers will be spending the next few years in jail for the 2008 sinking of a Ukrainian tugboat in Hong Kong.