Holland America and Carnival Add ms Eurodam to Its Fleet.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-20 June 2008-Holland America and Carnival Add ms Eurodam to Its Fleet(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Holland America Line and its parent company, Carnival Corp., has officially accepted delivery of its newest ship, ms Eurodam, in a formal handover ceremony near Venice, Italy, on...

Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Jun 23, 2008 If Boeing loses its protest of the Air Force's decision to award a tanker contract to Northrop Grumman, it may end plans to sell its version of the tanker internationally, according to media reports. The DOD contract would have required enough volume to create...

Travel Business News - Europe.
May 5, 2008 A record 4 million Europeans took cruise holidays last year, according to the latest statistics unveiled Thursday by the European Cruise Council (ECC) in Brussels. The ECC 2007 "Markets Report" shows how rapidly cruise holidays are growing in popularity for European travelers. Five years...

Initiative activity rekindled: voters in Napa County, San Francisco, SoCal to decide measures.
After a lull during the off-year election of 2007, land use initiatives and referendums are starting to reappear on local ballots this June. Voters in at least seven jurisdictions are scheduled to decide measures that are related directly or indirectly to what gets built and where. It...

Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Mar 24, 2008 Boeing has based its protest of the award of a tanker contract to a team led by Northrop Grumman and Airbus parent EADS on several small criteria changes. The company said a change in the request for data threw off cost estimates and also...

First Gentleman exhorts nation's seafarers.
Byline: Yul Malicse and Mar Supnad First Gentleman Jose Miguel "Mike" T. Arroyo lauded yesterday the country's seafarers, saying they help boost the national economy and deserve support from the government. Keynoting the 10th founding anniversary of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific...

Hanjin Co. gets notice of violation from SBMA.
Byline: JONAS REYES SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- Hanjin Heavy Industries Co.-Philippines, Inc. (HHIC-Phil) has received a notice of violation from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in connection with the accident that killed two workers and injured four others in one of the sea vessels being built...

SBMA official defends Hanjin's condo project.
Byline: JONAS REYES SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- "The area is designated for low-impact residential development projects." Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Administrator Armand Arreza made this statement during a press conference held yesterday to dispute allegations that Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) "destroyed a...

Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Jan 21, 2008 Airbus pitches its plan to make jets in the U.S. and maintain current US Air Force Boeing built tankers. Airbus will announce today Jan. 14 that it will produce commercial freighter jets alongside Air Force tankers in Mobile, Ala., if it wins a hotly...

Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War.
Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. By Eric J. Graham. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn Limited, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 238. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-84158-424-9.) Numerous historical studies have been conducted on Confederate blockade-running and shipbuilding operations during the American Civil War. This book...