Port of Miami-Dade executives hope their plan to dredge the port’s main entrance to 52 feet is one step closer to reality after the U.S. Senate last week earmarked $500,000 for the project. Though the dredging’s total cost is $157 million, port officials believe the Senate’s actions show the project
Rolls-Royce has won its largest contract for a single offshore vessel, which will also be the world
THE government yesterday paved the way for the eventual development of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, 20 miles off the Scottish coast. Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister, gave the green light to plans to build two giant wind turbines in the Beatrice Field in the Moray Firth in the first sta
Delivery Damen Double Hull Oil Tanker, yardnumber 9379, mts. ‘Solway’. Damen Shipyards Bergum delivered mts. ‘Solway Fisher’ on Friday 30-06-2006 to her principal James Fisher Shipping Ltd, England. The delivery took place at the Damen Yard, Galati, Romania.
HEALTH inspectors will rip up carpets and furnishings in a ship on which 100 people were struck down with a vomiting bug last weekend, the third such outbreak on the boat. The Black Prince returned to Leith, Edinburgh, early yesterday after about 100 of its 393 passengers fell ill with a stomach bug
TWO navy patrol boats, to be named Glenelg and Maryborough will be built at Fremantle and then based at Dampier to protect the North West shelf. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said today that the boats will be built at Austal’s Henderson shipyard near Fremantle by Austal and the Defence Maritime Se
Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE:TOD) announced today that the U.S. Navy has awarded to its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation (“Todd Pacific”), a delivery order under its Multiple Award Contract in the amount of $5,180,291 for the in-drydock repairs and preservation of Cais
GROTON, Conn., July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — General Dynamics Electric Boat has won a $20 million, 18-month contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue development of shaftless propulsion technology for submarines. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of G
The South Australian Government has approved another $115 million to expand the Osborne shipbuilding site in Adelaide. South Australian Premier Mike Rann says he met with the state’s defence industry advisory board chairman, General Peter Cosgrove, yesterday to brief him on the Techport Australia ex
The fleet is proceeding to a new start line as there is no wind off the Ambrose Lighthouse. Tim Magee, skipper of Liverpool 08 and the current Duty Skipper, reports back that there is a Force 0, gusting Force 1, and still heavy rain. The fleet is aiming to start at dawn, so the details […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources orders owners to salvage the ship Billy Star and sop up the sulfuric acid that escaped from its tank off the coast of Bauan, Batangas. Owned by Grand Asian Shipping, the 150-ton ship was having repairs at the Keppel Shipyard in Barangay San Miguel,
OTTAWA – The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister responsible for Prince Edward Island today announced on behalf of the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, that the Government of Canada will pro
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The fleet started racing today, in position N40 40.5 W070 08. The start signal was given by the Duty Skipper Tim Magee on Liverpool 08 at 1345 UTC, with the boats lined up north to south. Tim reported “WA, durbs and jersey had the initial best start but cardiff and wa slightly to windward are [&hell
