By Kathryn Stone 2015-06-10 13:15:42 Massive waves damaged an MH 370 search ship this week, further complicating the heavily-scrutinized recovery operation. The GO Pheonix, a sophisticated search ...
MH 370 Search Ship Damaged Complicating Recovery
U.S. Manufacturing Keeps St. Lawrence Seaway Bustling
By MarEx 2015-06-10 14:25:50 U.S. manufacturing is expected to keep ship traffic on the St. Lawrence Seaway bustling this season after a strong start for general cargo shipments through the ...
Flooding of Expanded Panama Canal Begins
By Kathryn Stone 2015-06-10 11:12:26 Water will begin flooding the expanded Panama Canal on Thursday as the Agua Fria locks in Gatun are filled. The Grupo Unido por el Canal (GUPC), contractor for ...
Head of Greece’s Biggest Port Resigns
By Reuters 2015-06-10 08:21:42 The head of Greece's biggest port Piraeus will step down, a statement said on Wednesday, after the port was once more named as a target for privatization in the ...
Bremerhaven cargo throughput sinks further
Bremerhaven/Bremen's cargo volumes continued their decline in the first four months of this year. The twin port's throughput across all commodities slipped by 5% year on year to 24.6 million tonnes, ...
CCCC founds dredging group in Shanghai
China Communications Construction Corporation (CCCC) has set up a dredging group, the first of a series of planned spinoffs as it develops into a holdings company with subsidiaries across various ...
Row blows up over Taiwan wind farm vessels
A political row has broken out in Taiwan about approval given to two mainland Chinese ships to work on an offshore wind farm project in the Taiwan Strait. The country’s Democratic Progressive Party ...
Chinese ships back on Taiwan’s wind farm project
Taiwan's Marine and Port Bureau (MPB) on 4 June gave approval for two Chinese ships to work on an offshore wind farm project in the Taiwan Strait. Platform vessel Huadian 1001 and tug Hai Gang 36 are ...
Indonesian police accuse Australia of paying people smugglers
Australian officials allegedly paid the crew of a people-smuggling boat en route to New Zealand to turn back to Indonesia, according to an Indonesian police chief. Hidayat, police chief on the island ...
Asian ship attacks increase 19% in May
Anti-piracy watchdog ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre has reported a 19% rise in reported incidents in Asia from April to May this year. Of the 20 incidents, two were categorised as 'acts of piracy' ...