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Bahrain wooing cruise touristsTourism authorities are increasing their efforts to attract more cruise ships to Bahrain following a decline in the number of vessels visiting the country. The season got underway last month with the arrival of the luxury MS Europ More… |
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Floating book fair opens in BahrainThe world's biggest floating book fair opened its doors to the public in Bahrain for the first time yesterday (October 23), a report said. With a stock of half a million books and a multicultural staff and crew of around 400 v More… |
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ME workboat show opens with $15m salesMiddle East Workboats & Offshore Marine 2013, a leading regional forum for owners, operators, industry professionals and suppliers, saw six new contracts worth Dh55 million ($15 million) being siogned on the opening day. More… |
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Wrecked cruise ship raised off rocks in ItalySalvage crews completed raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 19-hour-long operation on the Italian island of Giglio where the huge cruise liner capsized in January last year. One o More… |
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3 held after gun attack on ship in Suez CanalEgypt has arrested three people who opened fire with machine guns on a ship passing through the Suez Canal, an army source said on Sunday, playing down what the waterway's chief described as a terrorist attack. During Saturday More… |
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'Terrorist' bid to attack ship in Suez Canal foiledA "terrorist" staged an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the Suez Canal on Saturday, in an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through the waterway, the head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Memish said. More… |
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Hyundai Heavy wins $2bn Gulf ship orderUnited Arab Shipping Company (UASC) said it had placed orders worth over $2 billion for very large container ships with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries. UASC ordered five vessels of 18,000 twenty-foot equivalent units ( More… |
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Panama checking for explosives in N Korean shipInvestigators unloading the cargo of a seized North Korean ship that carried arms from Cuba may have discovered explosive material on board, a senior Panamanian official said on Friday. Javier Caraballo, Panama's top anti-drug More… |
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Arms ship seized may have been Somalia-bound: UNAn Iranian ship laden with arms seized by Yemeni authorities in January may also have been bound for Somalia, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday. Yemeni forces intercepted the ship, the Jihan 1, off Ye More… |
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Iran fuel sales soar to $600m despite sanctionsIran exported nearly 8.7 million barrels of fuel oil in April, or about 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), an increase of more than five-fold from a year-ago, according to traders and data from Thomson Reuters Oil Analytics. The April More… |
