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Mar 27, 2006
British Columbia Ferries could get a first glimpse of its sunken vessel Queen of the North this weekend. Nuytco Research Ltd. has been hired by the ferry operator
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Mar 27, 2006
Shetland Islands Council may set up an arms length company to run its inter island ferries in a bid to stave off potential competition on the route, while saving
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Mar 27, 2006
The B.C. government treasury board approved funding for three replacement ferries on its north coast routes on March 22, the same day Premier Gordon Campbell
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Mar 27, 2006
High-speed ships connecting the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka and the South Korean city of Busan are having trouble with increasing collisions with whales near Tsushima Strait.
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Mar 27, 2006
The government is putting together an action plan to solve a rig shortage crisis in the North Sea, but experts claim that no new rigs are available for hire until the end of 2007,
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Mar 27, 2006
The Empress of the North lost a lot of weight on March 25, but the stubborn sternwheeler refused to budge from her perch on a Columbia River sandbar.
Rescuers
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Mar 27, 2006
Relations between Chevron and China's dominant offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC are 'normalizing' seven months after CNOOC bowed to U.S. political opposition
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Mar 27, 2006
Officials prepared a mini-submarine on March 25 that will be used to inspect the wreck of the Queen of the North as the search continues for two people missing since the ferry sank.
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Mar 27, 2006
Sea Containers Ltd. said it would withdraw from the ferry business, and it now expects to take $500 million in charges for the fourth quarter, sending its shares down 9 percent.
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Mar 27, 2006
The IMO issued a Notice
stating that the 2006 IMO/United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Forum on Regional Cooperation in Combating Marine Pollution
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Mar 27, 2006
The Coast Guard the U.S. Navy opened the Hampton Roads Sector Command – Joint Harbor Operations Center (SCC-JHOC) on March 24. The SCC-JHOC combines
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Mar 27, 2006
The Kiribati-flagged merchant vessel M/V Rokya 1 and USS McCampbell (DDG 85) collided on March 25, approximately 30 miles southeast of the Iraqi coastline in the North Persian Gulf.
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Mar 27, 2006
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with the Japanese Hydrographic Association (JHA) that
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Mar 27, 2006
UT 751 E platform supply rendering
Aker Yards has signed a contract with Farstad Supply AS, a company within Farstad Shipping ASA in Ålesund, Norway, to
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Mar 27, 2006
The U.S. Coast Guard has extended the deadline for the M/V
LeConte to resolve crewing issues until April 4, which will allow the
ship to continue
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Mar 27, 2006
The Empress of the North was re-floated on Sunday. The vessel grounded Friday morning on the Columbia River, near Washougal, Wash.
The vessel is currently
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Mar 27, 2006
With a year to go before it even touches the water for the first time, the U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship USS New York has already made history — twice.
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Mar 27, 2006
Sea Containers Ltd. has announced that the company is completely quitting the ferry business, including its SeaStreak commuter service between New York City and New Jersey,
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Mar 27, 2006
Lockheed Martin delivered its Multi-Mission Surveillance Radar (MMSR) system to
the U.S. Navy for use at its Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center
(AUTEC).
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Mar 27, 2006
Lloyd’s Register, in conjunction with Intelligent Engineering, Ltd, has developed a set of provisional Rules for new construction and ship repair using steel sandwich construction.
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