BP p.l.c. will implement the recommendations made by an independent safety review panel as part of the company’s continuing effort to improve its safety culture and to strengthen and standardize process safety management at BP’s five U.S. refineries.
A new transatlantic race for super-sailing yachts has been announced by the organisers of the Superyacht Cup Palma, the organisation promoting a growing number of events for large sailing yachts. The new race will start from Antigua in April 2008 and is designed to attract yachts that would normally
the Middle East’s biggest yacht-builder – will be showing its Majesty 50 and Majesty 66 yachts at January’s Dusseldorf Boat Show, one of the world’s leading yachting and boating events. The company has been exhibiting at Dusseldorf since 2000 and is celebrating its 25th anniversary by presenting com
A new £300m cruise ship, which could replace the QE2, has taken to the water in an official floating ceremony. Queen Victoria was floated off the Italian coast, where the 16-deck, 90,000-tonne, super cruiser was built for Southampton-based Cunard.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston has been forced to turn back to Fremantle with a broken autopilot fewer than 24 hours into the second leg of the Five Oceans race. The British solo sailing legend will have to stay in port for a statutory 48 hours as his team fix the problem.
A Peterhead-based fishing boat that ran aground near the St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire has been refloated.
Magne Morken, Managing Director of the Norwegian shipping company Solvang ASA, pushed the button of the computer-controlled plasma torch for the steel construction of the third gas tanker out of a series of four. Cutting of the first steel plate marks the start of the production process of the new g
Special ceremonies at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard near Venice will be held today (Monday, January 15) to mark the float out of Cunard’s newest Queen, ocean liner Queen Victoria. During the float out, the valves will be opened and the dry-dock flooded for the ship to meet the sea for the first ti
Korean shipbuilders are forecast to enjoy an 18-percent increase in exports this year because of strong demand for high-priced ships and other products. The Korea Shipbuilders’ Association predicted Monday that local shipbuilders will log $26 billion in exports in 2007, up 18 percent from an estimat
A severe storm that battered southern Scandinavia yesterday may have helped disperse some of the thick fuel oil that leaked from a Cyprus-registered freighter that ran aground off western Norway and broke up late on Friday, officials said. Captain Erik Blom said a survey of the area indicated that o
In line with the strategy decided by the Board, Frontline Ltd. (“Frontline” or the “Company”) is currently in the process of establishing a separate entity to develop the Company’s heavy lift activity. Such a company will include up to six single hull Suezmax vessels. Five of these vessels are on lo
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has made an agreement to acquire Tagros d.o.o. a Slovenia-based service company. Tagros provides maintenance of container handling equipment and industrial forklifts at the Port of Koper in Slovenia.
The Vindu, a 4,500-ton cargo ship once adrift in the North Sea during a heavy storm, was safely towed to port Sunday in the British city of Hull. The BBC said that since the ship had reported engine failure Thursday during a heavy storm, it had begun to drift dangerously near a pair of gas […
Statoil has signed frame agreements for sidetrack operations and undesirable objects recovery from wells (fishing) on Statoil-operated Norwegian continental shelf licences. The deals have been signed with Baker Hughes Norge AS, Weatherford Norge AS and supplier-of-choice, Smith International Norway
