Minsheng has drawn up plans for a new class of river boat that more than doubles the current size of 800-1, 000 tonnes, whilst raising the speed from 18kph to 22kph.
When my future wife and I met on a river boat on the Hudson in 1962, we sang our way through half the major musicals of the 40s and 50s, including almost the complete catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Died of shrapnel wounds after a missile was fired at a river patrol boat.
Fraser is currently stranded on a Nile River cruise boat in Luxor.
In 1807, Robert Fulton's "North River Steam Boat" (popularly known as the "Clermont") began chugging its way up New York's Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany.
From there four attempts by the traffickers to get him across the Evros river, in a boat, to northern Greece.
My life became violent and I ended up living in a boat on the river.
Fifty-seven wounded made it on a boat down the river to MSF's hospital in Nasir.
An entrepreneur says he is planning another on a huge boat in the river.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
Recently FORBES took a boat ride on the river and its canal system.
Jamie Neal and Garrett Hand are heading upstream in a small boat on a jungle river, said Jose Luis Silva, Peru's minister of tourism and commerce.
Forgive me for saying, but those who choose "internet" over "Internet" are as wrong as those who would visit london, meet the queen or go for a boat trip down the river thames.
According to Dr McMahon, a big part of the problem is that both species can survive out of the water for several days, so transporting a boat overland from one river basin to another, a common practice in North America, will not necessarily kill them.
John Collins carried the Olympic Flame through Marble Arch Caves on a boat, navigating the underground river on its way to the London Olympics.
Starting from Nong Khiaw in the early morning, our guide Dhit sat quietly as we drifted around 10km downstream along the calm Nam Ou River in a narrow long-tail boat.
No matter which direction you travel on the canal, you will meet the Chao Phraya River, where you can catch a boat across to Thonburi on the public riverboats that constantly pass by.
When the couple was spotted traveling in a small boat on a remote jungle river, Peruvian officials said they were clearly enjoying their trip and weren't aware that their families were looking for them.
When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.
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The 10-day tour, limited to 18 travellers, begins in Yangon and includes visits to Inle Lake and a boat trip on the Irrawaddy River to Mandalay, along with cooking lessons in a private home and a visit to the pagodas in Bagan.
"This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in Washington but around the country, " Hersman said after taking a boat ride on the Skagit River below the dramatic scene where a truck bumped against the steel framework, collapsing the bridge and sending two vehicles and three people falling into the chilly water.
When rowing on the river Tigris, he has to continually look over his shoulder in case his boat collides with one of the many fishing vessels that also use the river.
My eyes followed the little white boat as it moved down the river, past the barges, until it was gone.
Here, boat tour operators such as Adelaide River Queen Cruises actively try to attract the crocs by dangling meat over the side.
We took a boat up to Peopon(ph) River and in a very short distance we saw about 30 bodies.
For less extreme entertainment, stroll down the inn's jetty and hop into a jet boat for a tour up the Dart River.
Once inside, the steely gray of the river changes to a rich gold, as the boat threads into a channel walled with reeds.
Two communities either side of a Devon river have joined together for a Jubilee Party on a boat half way across the water.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
The demonstrators accuse Norte Energia of damming the final canal of the river without having solved the matter of how to move boat traffic from one side of the cofferdam to the other, as required by the Installation License issued by Ibama.
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