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Oct 26, 2007
Yellow line: Northwest Passage.
Blue line: Northern Sea Route
The International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), meeting at ESRIN in Frascati, issued the following statement on October 26,
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Oct 26, 2007
Aker Yards signed a contract with Tide Sjø AS for three ferries dedicated to operate the link between Oslo and the peninsula of Nesodden. The ferries will be built in France at Aker Yards, Lorient.
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Oct 26, 2007
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a contract option by the U.S.
Navy to provide planning, execution and continuous maintenance to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier,
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Oct 26, 2007
During the 3rd quarter an operating result (EBIT) of $7.1m was recorded by the LPG fleet, $16.5m for the 3rd quarter 2006, including $4.0m non-recurrent items.
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Oct 26, 2007
CMB’s executive committee has discussed the preliminary results recorded for the third
quarter 2007. Bocimar contributes $47.45m (2006: $69.01m) to the consolidated result for the
third quarter.
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Oct 26, 2007
The National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has issued a Request for Information soliciting industry interest in conducting research and development to
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Oct 26, 2007
Crowley Maritime Corporation announced that Robert (Bob) Rousseau has been promoted to Vice President of Intermodal, a newly created position in the company's liner services segment.
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Oct 26, 2007
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. (NYSE: EXM), an owner and operator of dry bulk carriers and a provider of worldwide seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes,
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Oct 26, 2007
Just three years after its introduction, the five-day Background to Shipping seminar from leading training provider Lloyd’s Maritime Academy is now established
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Oct 26, 2007
FLEX LNG ordered its third 90,000 cubic meter (3.1 MMcf) SPB liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel this year from Samsung Heavy Industries. The vessel will be identical
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Oct 26, 2007
A ConocoPhillips (COP) tanker company has agreed to pay a fine and other penalties totaling $2.5m for spilling oily sludge into the ocean after leaving Valdez,
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Oct 26, 2007
Russia’s Krasnoye Sormovo ship-building factory and Palmali Group shipping company signed a delivery-acceptance certificate on the second tanker, Agdash, of Project 19619.
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Oct 26, 2007
COSCO Corporation has clinched shipbuilding contracts valued at over $1.3b. The orders were received by its 51-percent owned unlisted unit, COSCO Shipyard Group.
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Oct 26, 2007
Some 20,000 local male residents are being recruited by business titan Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd., of South Korea for its shipbuilding and ship repair projects.
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Oct 26, 2007
Shares of Cosco Corp. Singapore, a shipping company that owns a shipyard in China, rebounded after announcing it secured an order to build 29 bulk carriers worth $1.
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Oct 26, 2007
October 26, 1921 - In first successful test, a compressed air, turntable catapult, launches an N-9 seaplane.
1922 - LCDR Godfrey deC. Chevalier makes first landing
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Oct 26, 2007
Tidewater Inc. announced second quarter net earnings for the period ended September 30, 2007, of $86.5 million, or $1.56 per common share, on revenues of $319.0 million.
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Oct 26, 2007
The National Waterways Foundation elected new officers and trustees at its recent meeting on October 3, 2007 in Houston, TX.
Newly elected Foundation officers are Peter Stephaich,
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Oct 26, 2007
Fabrication of the 28th and last Arleigh Burke Class
Aegis Destroyer contracted for Gulf Coast construction began on Oct. 18
at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems - Ingalls Operations shipyard,
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Oct 26, 2007
The 12th annual National Defense Industrial
Association (NDIA) Expeditionary Warfare Conference convened at the Bay
Point Marriott Resort Village Golf and Yacht Club Oct.
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