UP to 500 holidaymakers have been sent home today after their cruise ship was detained because of a virus outbreak. The Dutch-owned vessel Van Gogh was due to leave Harwich docks in Essex yesterday on a seven-day trip to Norway, but was held following reports that more than 100 people had been infec
ABN AMRO ONE finally go for a spinnaker after starting the donwwind leg under a jib. She is speeding away towards the finish now, well ahead of Pirates. Up goes their jib again as the wind shifts once more as they close on the line. That spinnaker only was up there for a couple on […]
It was a highly successful first day for Basilica today. Four wins out of four races off the Southsea seafront in front of a jubilant crowd of cheering spectators made it a special day for the UK entry in the high speed catamaran series. The recipe of constant winds of 15 knots with added sunny [&he
In Port race day dawns with a cloudy sky, but a good 12 knots of north to northeasterly wind with substantial gusts under the clouds. It’s not warm by any description. At Gunwharf Quays the boats have gone through a moving blessing where Hans Horreovets was remembered by all present, and are now sta
Residents of Feodosia have continued blocking unloading of a US Navy vessel, got into the Crimean port on May 27 in connection with joint Ukraine-NATO maneuvers, planned for the summer. It is worth reminding that the Ukrainian Progressive Socialist Party (PSPU), headed by Natalya Vitrenko, recently
A cruise ship passenger jumped into the pitch-black ocean off the British Virgin Islands, prompting a futile 12-hour search that bogged down thousands of vacationers yesterday, officials said. The unidentified man went overboard from the Carnival Legend vessel just after 1 a.m. on Saturday, the crui
A boom in world shipping markets is cooling off, but the sector will still remain strong for years to come, bankers and industry experts say. “They were really exceptional years,” Matthias Umlauf, a senior economist with HSH Nordbank AG, said of 2004 and 2005, when seaborne freight indices across oi
A Vietnamese transport company opened its first intra-Vietnam route to improve coastal shipping capability on large cargoes, easing pressure on the strapped land transport system. Automaker Chu Lai
A consortium of shipping lines has launched a new service to provide direct service between Tuticorin and the US East Coast. Also, for the first time, Tuticorin will be directly connected to the Mediterranean Port (Barcelona in Spain) through the service. Called IDX, the regular weekly service will
The Japan Coast Guard will heighten efforts to deal with pirates in the Malacca Strait and other areas of Southeast Asia to protect Japanese ships against attacks, officials said. The coast guard will establish a five-member team of experts in anti-piracy issues, who will gather information from dan
The Massachusetts Port Authority wants to deepen the 11-mile shipping channel into Boston Harbor to accommodate large cargo ships, a project that would move nearly 60 percent as much earth as the Big Dig. The operator of the Port of Boston and the Army Corps of Engineers are close to finishing a fou
Officials say the Ketchikan Shipyard will receive about 70 million dollars from local, state and federal sources for improvements over the next five years. The yard, where vessels are repaired, is expected to get a second ship lift and complete plans to expand the yard to its originally planned size
new Mulder 59 Convertible hardtop has left Mulder Shipyard
Five hundred UK holidaymakers have been sent home after their cruise ship was detained by the coastguard because of a severe virus “rife” among the 250 crew. So many had the virus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, the ship would have been unable to cope with any emergency, the coastguard added.
