One of the 3 pilot boats being built by Halic Shipyard for Turkish Maritime Incorporated (TDI), has met with water yesterday and already successed at the first sea trial. The sea trials for other two will follow next week. The boat is 14,5 metres in length and has 4,2 metres beam width.

RMK Marine, a large shipyard in Tuzla, signed a $325 million contract on Tuesday to build four military search and rescue boats for the Turkish Coast Guard. The shipyard will become Koç Holding's third arm in its defense business, after armored vehicles maker Otokar and software and systems group Koç Sistem.

Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) will increase its oil explorations this year. According to the company planning, TPAO will begin drilling some 72 new wells in locations including Erzurum, Ayval?k, Bafra-Samsun, Isparta and an area near the Syrian border.

Three crew members were killed and seven others were rescued early on Saturday when a ship bearing the flag of Comoro Islands sank off Turkey's NW coast in the Black Sea

Thieves who swipe shipping containers for remodelling into ware-houses and homes, have cost the shipping industry millions of dollars, industry officials say.

The sinking earlier this month of the cruise liner Sea Diamond offers a timely reminder that holidays at sea are not without risk. The ship, operated by the Greece-based Louis Hellenic Cruise Line, sank on Good Friday off the island of Santorini, after it ran aground on rocks. The 1,156 passengers, on a four-day tour of the Aegean, included Americans, Australians, Britons and Canadians. All but two were rescued. The two who are missing, from France, are believed to have drowned.

SOURCES claim MSC is the charterer backing a new $1.4bn 12,400 teu ship order at STX.

CANAKKALE (A.A) - The 44th International Troia Festival hasstarted in northwestern city of Canakkale on Friday.

Three Marine Pilots were lost on the 21st August during a storm off the Uruguayan coast when their Launch sank. 3 of them dead.

Yıldız revealed that the parchment was excavated from the Uluburnu shipwreck dating from the 14th century B.C. found off the coast of Kaş Uluburnu in 1982. Yildiz said, “among the many artifacts we found in the wreck was the world's oldest leaflet. We assume the leaflet was used as the captain's log.”

This summer will see more rafting planned for the K�pr� and Alara rivers near Alanya, which will secure the Alara River�s place as a must-see destination for tourists interested in rafting and outdoor sports in Turkey.

Survivors of the capsized Greek cruise ship "Sea Diamond" wait to disembark from the cruise ship 'Perla' in Pireaus port near Athens March 6, 2007. Perla carried about 800 survivors from the'Sea Diamond" but authorities said two French passengers � a 45 year-old man and his 16-year-old daughter � had still not been accounted for, and lists of rescued passengers were being rechecked.
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