By the time you read this, OPEC will likely have finished a meeting to determine whether further production cuts are needed to stabilise the price of crude, which closed above US$75 per barrel on Friday. It was up five per cent on that one day, as traders bet that the oil producers’ cartel will announce another reduction ..
Ricky Ponting, one of the most successful captains of an Australian cricket team, once described his mindset at the batting crease: “In my head, I don’t see the fielders. I only see the gaps.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Papua New Guinea last month was his second to the Pacific islands ..
Once your reviewer gained the strength to lift its 500, bigger than A4, hard-covered pages, he not so much read this book as devoured it. It is a brilliant and priceless maritime history. It will ensure that its readers are entertained for at least a week and informed for decades. Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) needs no ..
Best Crabber – Ugjit Mijua’ji’jg – Navanex & Chantier Naval Forillon Here is a comparatively simple but truly multi-purpose fishing vessel that can readily adapt from trawling to potting for crabs. Obviously, its primary target will be high-value crabs, but given the vessel’s ownership, it will be very useful ..
Swedish technology company Cetasol has developed a new type of virtual sensor for fuel flow measurement. The CetaFuel sensor can accurately measure properties without requiring physical sensors. Cetafuel said this technology can replace traditional and expensive fuel flow meters, making fuel monitoring more accessible and ..
Best River Tourist Boat – La Charente – Aister Very unusual yet attractive and stylish with their timber-coated aluminium hulls, these boats look almost traditional. Operating in a very beautiful part of France, their hybrid propulsion system ensures that they leave a tiny footprint and should last forever with minimal ..
Readers of Baird Maritime know that marine engines and propulsion systems are regularly featured on these pages. This time, though, we devote another feature week to thes ..
A transport company in New South Wales, Australia, has taken one of its passenger ferries out of service after it struck a wharf in Sydney’s Barangaroo area on Wedn ..
Charges have been filed against a boat captain and the company that owns a high-speed vessel that collided with rocks at Horizontal Falls, Western Australia in late May 2 ..
German travel agency and cruise company Phoenix Reisen recently expanded its fleet with the acquisition of a new river cruise ship built by Vahali Shipyards of Croatia. N ..
A transport company in New South Wales, Australia, has taken one of its passenger ferries out of service after it struck a wharf in Sydney’s Barangaroo area on Wedn ..
Charges have been filed against a boat captain and the company that owns a high-speed vessel that collided with rocks at Horizontal Falls, Western Australia in late May 2 ..
German travel agency and cruise company Phoenix Reisen recently expanded its fleet with the acquisition of a new river cruise ship built by Vahali Shipyards of Croatia. N ..
Ricky Ponting, one of the most successful captains of an Australian cricket team, once described his mindset at the batting crease: “In my head, I don’t see the f ..
One person was killed while another four have gone missing after a charter fishing boat sank off Sitka, Alaska, on Sunday, May 28. The incident occurred in the afternoon ..
The Russian government, through the Ministry of Defence, has reported that one of its vessels came under attack from unmanned speedboats in the Black Sea earlier this wee ..
An Indonesian Navy vessel suffered an onboard fire that necessitated the evacuation of its entire crew off Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi province on Saturday, June ..
The Canadian Coast Guard has expanded its fleet of icebreakers with the recent acquisition of a vessel originally built for towage duties in the Caspian Sea off Kazakhsta ..
Saam Towage has concluded the purchase of 21 tugs from Brazilian company Starnav The acquires vessels include 19 tugs currently in operation and two additional vessels in ..
By the time you read this, OPEC will likely have finished a meeting to determine whether further production cuts are needed to stabilise the price of crude, which closed ..
New tugs have been delivered to a South African port operator and a Dutch towage company. Orders have meanwhile been placed for vessels to support harbour operations in A ..
Netherlands-based offshore vessel operator Acta Marine has established a French subsidiary and opened its new office in Montoir de Bretagne, France. The new office will b ..
By the time you read this, OPEC will likely have finished a meeting to determine whether further production cuts are needed to stabilise the price of crude, which closed ..
Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) is adding another berth to its Manila International Container Terminal (MICT). The new berth, M ..
Chinese shipbuilder Zhenhua Heavy Industry recently handed over a new deep sea-capable crane vessel to compatriot operator Jiangsu Longsheng Offshore Engineering. Built i ..
Deliveries include a Chinese live transport vessel and a feed barge for a New Zealand salmon farming company. A new seiner/trawler ordered by a Norwegian operator is near ..
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has completed construction of a new LNG bunkering vessel that will serve customers in the South Korean shipping ma ..
Four people were killed after a boat carrying foreign tourists capsized in Lake Maggiore in northern Italy’s Lombardy region as a storm swept through the same area ..
Deliveries include a Chinese live transport vessel and a feed barge for a New Zealand salmon farming company. A new seiner/trawler ordered by a Norwegian operator is near ..
A transport company in New South Wales, Australia, has taken one of its passenger ferries out of service after it struck a wharf in Sydney’s Barangaroo area on Wedn ..
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