A totally authentic Grand Prix car racing simulator has been installed today on board Costa Cruises
The world’s largest luxury liner — taller than the Statue of Liberty and longer than an aircraft carrier — will sail out of Miami today on her maiden voyage to the western Caribbean. She sets a new standard for big. The latest fleet addition for Royal Caribbean International, Freedom comes in at 160
The fleet is all fuelled up, and proceeding down the Central American land mass towards Panama. The stop in Huatulco went extremely well, and a big round of thanks must go to firstly Mark Drewelow in San Diego, who made the initial contact in Bahia Huatulco, and especially Martin Peraza, the hard wo
Dredging PCBs from the Hudson River could face more delays after officials from the town nearest the cleanup demanded more say in planning the work. “We did not do this for the sake of delay,” said Mark Schachner, legal counsel for Fort Edward, a town of 6,000 people about 185 miles north of the Tap
A consortium comprising Gammon India and its sudsidiary Gammon Infrastructure Projects has been awarded the Kosi river bridge project and the Gorakhpur bypass project by National Highways Authority of India. The total cost of the two projects is estimated at Rs 1,080 crore. According to an official
A rare turtle species could block the development of an $11 billion gas pipeline on Barrow Island, off the north-west coast of Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) chairman Wally Cox says the development of the Gorgon Liquefied natural gas project would unnecessarily damage Ba
The owner of an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea in February, killing 1,000 passengers, is paying millions of dollars to the families of victims and to survivors. An Egyptian prosecutor announced Tuesday that shipowner Mamdouh Ismail has transferred the money into a compensation fund. The fam
Glenn Bourke, CEO of the event, yesterday notified the teams they will have to reach Holland by midnight on Friday in order for the In Port race to go ahead as scheduled, but latest estimates suggest the fleet, currently stuck in a high pressure system off the Scottish coast, will not arrive until S
With the tanker Stena Primorsk as the centre of attention, Concordia Maritime and the entire Stena group take ‘one big step’ into the limelight this week. They will together be arranging a number of activities on land and at sea – right in the heart of Stockholm! Events will include a royal naming c
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New Delhi – India’s Supreme Court Monday permitted asbestos- lined ocean liner SS Norway into the country’s territorial waters. The direction came after a pollution control agency had last month barred the ship from entering western Gujarat state’s Alang shipyard where it was due to be scrapped. A t
Tasmanian Treasury officials are concerned the Melbourne to Devonport ferry service is facing similar problems to the axed Sydney service and is unsustainable. The Tasmanian Government-owned ship will be sold after its last voyage in August. The discount airfares and rising fuel costs that helped fi
The Pha Rung Shipyard, a member of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) on June 3 handed over a dry-cargo ship of 6,500 tonnes to Dong Do Shipping Lines Company under the Vietnam National Shipping Lines Corporation, Vinalines. The ship, named Dong Ba, is 102.79 metres long and 17 metre
At midnight local time the yachts were 20 nautical miles east of the Fastnet, at 1000GMT they were a scant 35 miles to the west. It must be a new record, the slowest passage so far during a Volvo Ocean Race or a Whitbread. Even Lizzie Green, the event oracle for historical information can
