The US military is testing bullets that can be fired underwater, potentially enabling Navy SEALs to engage in submarine combat and sink enemy boats from below. Water is 800 times denser than air at sea level, meaning normal bullets slow down underwater to the point that they’re rendered ineffective. The bullets manufactured
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Merchant ships are massive — often spanning a few hundred feet — and have thousands of moving parts. Given the progress made by cross-border trade and commerce post-globalization, and the recent rise of e-commerce, more than 50,000 ships undertake nearly half-a-million voyages every year. To avoid catastrophes while at sea, merchant ships
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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) are partnering to develop standards for marine vessels. OPTS is a private industry group under the umbrella of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), which comprises multinationals and indigenous exploration and production firms. NCDMB Executive
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Constructing, maintaining and upgrading submarine cable networks require significant amounts of capital.Nigeria currently has active submarine fiber optic cable systems connecting the country to the world through Europe deployed by different organizations with huge Internet bandwidth capacities, at least over 40 Terabytes. Today, Nigeria can boast of about five submarine
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The Federal government is set to collaborate with Greece on the training of Niger Delta youths and others in shipbuilding, fishing, food sufficiency and employment generation. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said this when the representative of the Greece government in Nigeria, Concept Amadeus Limited, paid a
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The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has rescued seafarers who were stranded on board a 7,541 convention board mooring tanker after the ship caught fire off the Nigerian coast. The incident involving the vessel, Sea Voyager, occurred at the Lagos anchorage on Thursday, according to NIMASA. The Regional Maritime Rescue Coordination
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A floating island of solar panels is being tested in Chile as a way to generate clean energy and reduce water loss at mine operations, a cornerstone of the Andean country’s economy that uses huge amounts of electricity and water. The experimental “Las Tortolas” power-generating island is being run by the
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Despite West Africa’s poor connection to the world through container liner shipping services over the years, Togo, a tiny West African country has overtaken Nigeria to become the first country to surpass the global average, a report by Netherland’s leading consulting firm, Dynamar has revealed. Togo’s growth, according to Dynamar, was
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A mega yacht that would be the biggest private vessel ever built would stretch the length of more than two football fields and contain its own casino and art galleries, under new plans. The colossal £600m 'Valkyrie Project' stretches an impressive 229 metres (750ft) - the same as 24 buses parked
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Stakeholders in the maritime sector are worried about the inability of local operators to participate in the shipping sector. (more…)
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