PortandTerminal.com, November 29, 2020 BRUNSWICK, GA – Crews have finished cutting and lifting the first section of the wreck of the MV Golden Ray – its bow. Preparations are now underway for the section to be transported by barge. The car carrier has been lying on her side in shallow water since capsizing in St. Simons Sound near the Port of Brunswick in Georgia last …
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PortandTerminal.com, November 22, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Today’s “Maritime Image of the Day” is of an artificial lake in Portugal’s Serra da Estrela mountains called Covão dos Conchos which is famous for its surreal looking Bell-mouth spillway. This sci-fi funnel was a little-known secret in Portugal until photos of the hole went viral in 2016. The spillway was built …
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PortandTerminal.com, July 8, 2020 DUBAI – A video of one of Iran’s three Kilo-class submarines being transported by truck was posted to social media today and is being reported on in Iranian media. Kilo-class subs are diesel-electric attack submarines designed and built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy and were built up until the mid-1990s. Iran bought three Kilo-Class submarines from Russia (known as Tareq-class …
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PortandTerminal.com, June 30, 2020 CASABLANCA, MOROCCO – The world’s longest conveyor belt is 61 miles in length and runs from a mining town in the Western Sahara Desert in Morocco to the port of El-Aaiun on the country’s coast. The conveyor belt starts at a phosphate mine located in Bou Craa in the Western Sahara Desert The purpose of the …
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PortandTerminal.com, September 19, 2019 Located about 50 miles off the west coast of Norway, the Troll-A is a colossal natural gas platform and the tallest structure ever moved by mankind. Its construction is considered as one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in history. OSLO, NORWAY – The Troll-A platform is an offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off Norway’s west coast. …
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