Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (KSE:042660), the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, said today that it has recently won orders worth $1.6 billion to build 16 vessels.
Dame Ellen MacArthur has revealed she has no plans to embark on a solo voyage within the next three years. The 30-year-old became the fastest person to sail solo around the world in 2005 but now intends to focus on running her race team from the shore.
It’s down to the final flight to see who will lead the 11 challengers at the conclusion of Round Robin Two. BMW ORACLE Racing and Emirates Team New Zealand meet today in a battle for top spot. The winner will be first, the loser second.
Emirates Team New Zealand finished Round Robin Two of the Louis Vuitton Cup at the top of the table, with a win over BMW ORACLE Racing capping an unbeaten run in the second round. By finishing as the top challenger, the Kiwi team now has the right to choose its opponent for the Semi Finals. [&hellip
Plans for a new cruise ship berth and landing stage in Douglas Harbour are awaiting approval from Tynwald. The Department of Trade and Industry has been looking at various ways of attracting more trade to the harbour and see this as the way forward.
Skipper Dean Barker, representing the Round Robin leading Emirates Team New Zealand, has elected to race against Desafío Español 2007 in the Semi Finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup. That means BMW ORACLE Racing will face Luna Rossa Challenge in the other pairing.
Palm Beach tycoon Peter Halmos has spent $1 million to gently free his mega-yacht from a federal marine sanctuary off Key West. But the effort has failed. With another hurricane season beginning June 1, he may have no choice but to drag the vessel out.
Two of the most successful names in British yachting have teamed up to create a new range of series built Superyachts. Double Queen’s Award yacht builder, Oyster Marine, has commissioned Dubois Naval Architects to produce a Dubois Oyster 100 and a Dubois Oyster 125. Manufacture of the new designs is
The Volvo Ocean Race challenger for the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Series was revealed today in conjunction with the announcement of the 2007 race schedule which features four premier regattas and three endurance races. The Volvo Ocean Race entry (pictured above right) will be skippered by leading Frenc
Perini Navi has launched their 40th vessel. Tamsen is a 52 meter ketch with a steel hull and an aluminium superstructure. The sailing yacht has 1,127 square meters of sail which are manoeuvred by 13 Perini Navi reel captive winches. There are two aluminium masts with Perini Navi carbon fiber “in-boo
“It’s a mean looking beast. I think it looks like the alien,” remarks Chris Nelson of BAE Systems, as we walk round the front of the Royal Navy’s new Astute submarine in Barrow. Looming above us is a construction shed 12 stories high. Within it are three nuclear-powered submarines at different stage
The capsized boat was towed ashore Survivors on the boat The bodies of 54 Haitian migrants have been recovered after their boat capsized in shark-infested waters near the Turks and Caicos Islands. At least 73 of the 150 people believed to have been on board on the boat have been rescued.
There is still everything to play for when 10 teams of the challengers at the Louis Vuitton Cup take to the water today. The final place in the Semi Finals is still up for grabs, following Victory Challenge’s win over Desafío Español yesterday. If the Spanish win one of their two remaining races, th
At a ceremony today in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wärtsilä and Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) signed a licence agreement for the manufacture and sale of Wärtsilä low-speed marine engines in Vietnam. The agreement was signed by Mr Pham Thanh Binh, Chairman & CEO of Vinashin and Mr Martin W
