Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has launched the final one of five Priyadarshini-class fast patrol vessels (FPVs) slated for the Indian Coast Guard.
Reuters reports that the Development and Innovation Strategic Council of the Indian state of Kerala (K-DISC) is set to launch a pilot project to determine the feasibility of LNG as a fuel for fishing vessels.
Commercial fishing is an industry rooted in tradition. The Fish Mammas of Ghana are honoured for the generations that they have acted as the rightful middlemen between the canoe borne fishermen and the public or retail markets. In Chennai, India, graceful rafts bring catches ashore from anchored boats. Designated woman standing at the water’s edge to conduct lively auctions meets the rafts.
A fire broke out on a Singapore-flagged containership in the waters near Gujarat, India, on the evening (local time) of Friday, August 9.
One person was killed and another has gone missing after a fire broke out on a platform supply vessel (PSV) in the Bay of Bengal off India's southeastern coast on Monday, August 12.
Nine people were killed after the rescue boat they were riding on capsized and sank in rising flood waters in western India on Thursday, August 8.
Eleven months ago, returning from twice addressing the International Maritime Organisation’s III Meeting in London, I was quite depressed. My hope in addressing IMO had been that I could persuade its member state delegates of the urgent need for substantial improvement in the safety of domestic ferries. I was well aware that IMO was a member state dominated and led organisation. However, I was not aware of just how dominated by its member states it was. Now I know why it takes so long for anything to be achieved in the hallowed halls of IMO’s magnificent headquarters building beside the River Thames.
UAE-based Shelf Drilling has received an award for a three-year contract for each of two jack-up rigs with India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The Indian Ministry of Defence handed over two interceptor vessels in a series to the Mozambique Navy in a ceremony in Mozambique's capital of Maputo on Monday, July 29.
LCU 56, the sixth of eight Mark IV Landing Craft Utility (LCU) vessels built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), was commissioned into the Indian Navy on Monday, July 29.