Just weeks after one of their dredgers struck a subsea production pipeline in Calcasieu Channel, Manson Construction Company sustained another setback yesterday as their hopper Dredge NEWPORT lost one of it’s Ulstein Z-drive propulsion units in the very same channel leading to Lake Charles. The Coast Guard has reduced the channel draft to 27 feet until the propulsion unit is located and recovered.
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The recovery of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht from the waters off the coast of northern Sicily is expected to begin within the next two weeks to help shed light on how a supposedly unsinkable vessel disappeared into the sea last August.
A ceasefire deal between Yemen's Houthis and the U.S. does not include sparing Israel, the group said on Wednesday, suggesting its shipping attacks that have disrupted global trade and challenged world powers will not come to a complete halt.
By Christopher Scicluna VALLETTA, May 4 (Reuters) – An international NGO accused Malta on Sunday of impeding access to a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship which it says was bombed by two drones two days...
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