Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ice heading for Japanese (Vessel sinks) vessel

NZCity - Greenpeace fears the stricken Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru will become stuck in ice if it does not get out of the Antarctic soon. The Government is pleading with Japan to let Greenpeace vessel Esperanza take the ship under tow. Anti-whaling
MSN MoneyCentral - One vessel was delivered in February 2007 for a gain of approximately $16.1 million; the other vessel was sold and leased back in February 2007 for a gain of approximately $19.5 million that will be amortized over
Canberra Times - As the longest, tallest and widest passenger vessel ever created, Queen Mary 2 was assured of a place in maritime history even before she first put to sea. Built by French shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire at a cost of A$1 billion
Lebanon Daily Star - OFF THE COAST OF LEBANON: Marksmen from the French frigate Surcouf take aim at a group of red and yellow balloons representing an approaching kamikaze vessel. Such self-defense maneuvers are part of a program aimed at introducing the sailors to
Herald Tribune - The owner was threatening and bullying and ranting and raving, saying, 'This is a Bahamas-flagged vessel and I can do whatever I want.' We have told him we will arrest the ship and put a writ on it so it will go nowhere." The ferry is chartered by
People's Daily Online - The Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company, one of its subsidiaries, is going to deliver a floating, production, storage and offloading vessel to the United States -headquartered oil giant ConocoPhilips in May. The vessel with a designed capacity of
WLOX - Male members of the court boarded the royal yacht at the Palace Casino. "Good morning. Good morning," the deck hand greeted as the krewe came aboard, "Yes sir, welcome aboard." Rick Carter's 80 foot Hattaras provides a vessel worthy of a king. A pre
New Zealand Herald - Biosecurity NZ senior marine adviser Peter Stratford applauded the frigate's new owners, the Bay of Islands Canterbury Charitable Trust, in having the vessel thoroughly cleaned out of the water. "They are taking very seriously the responsibility we
RTE Online - The Merchant Brilliant has been moored 5km off Heysham since shortly after 8pm yesterday, and the crew were barricaded into a section of the vessel with two ITF inspectors. It had been sailed from Belfast under protest by the crew, whose union says