The Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Company on June 13 successfully launched a 53,000 tonne ship in the northern port city of Haiphong. The ship, named Graiglas, is designed for transporting dry cargo. It is one of the two biggest made-in-Vietnam ships built so far by Vietnamese workers. The other s
Vetco Aibel has been awarded a contract worth around NOK 700 million by Statoil for installation of a compressor module on the Sleipner B platform in the North Sea. The module will increase production of gas and condensate on the Sleipner West field. Without pressure support production from this fie
Gov. Linda Lingle and U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye will attend a blessing this weekend at a Connecticut shipyard for the USS Hawaii, the Navy’s newest and most advanced submarine. The Navy hasn’t picked a home port for the ship, but Lingle and Rear Adm. John Donnelly, deputy commander of the Pacific F
Johor stopped supplying sand to Singapore in 2000, and has since monitored sand-dredging activities in areas where permits have been issued. Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman told Ayub Jamil (BN-Rengit) in the state assembly yesterday that 97 such permits had been issued to date. In a reply rea
One fisherman was missing and three others were rescued yesterday afternoon after their boat hit a patch of choppy water and capsized off the coast of southern Queens, the authorities said. The fishermen
The Greenpeace boat the Arctic Sunrise has been banned from entering St Kitts in the West Indies ahead of Friday’s International Whaling Commission meeting. The boat was one of two vessels which confronted the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean earlier this year.
Russia has long used nuclear technology to power submarines. Russia is to build the world’s first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas. Under a contract signed on Wednesday, the plant will be built at an Arctic site where atomic submarines are made. Work is expected to
General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen Hawaii (SSN-776), the U.S. Navy
The ten Clipper 68s are busy preparing for the start of Race 9 in Shelter Bay on Wednesday after all successfully transiting the Panama Canal over the past two days. It is hoped that the fleet will be able to slip at 1500 local time, and form up for a Le Mans start later this […]
Light winds below five knots plagued the fleet today, with races being abandoned and postponed through to early evening. The first race saw Motorola-CHR, skippered by Conrad Humphreys, get their own back on their biggest rivals Tommy Hilfiger and Basilica by winning the race. Team Motorola-CHR were
Weather forecasts for Leg 9 are looking more and more positive. Earlier in the week, the forecasts were predicting another extremely slow leg with light upwind conditions and another possible drift-off as the fleet approached the Danish coast and rounded the northern dip of Denmark to make their fin
As the fleet leaves Rotterdam for Gothenburg, agendas are very different on each of the six boats. For race winner ABN AMRO ONE there is nothing to prove at all, they are simply heading north on a mission to collect the Fighting Finish trophy. For Brunel the short passage is about proving their abil
After nearly 70 races in five countries during seven months, it all came down to the last day to decide the winner of the Volvo Extreme 40 Grand Prix series. At the end of a Rotterdam Grand Prix that has run the gamut of weather from blazing sun to pouring rain
The first maintenance dredging of the Miami River is at a standstill, but contractors are expected to return to work within months and remain until the financial well runs dry. Whether the vast amount of dredging that remains is completed will hinge on getting funding, officials say. The US Army Cor
