At 1226GMT and 29 seconds, Neal McDonald’s Ericsson crossed the Gilkicker point finish line to take second place in Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race. After a traumatic series of crew changes, including the demotion of the skipper for one leg, the team has fought back from some lack-lustre performances
Moscow – Six heavily armed pirates robbed a Russian tanker in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Guinea, west Africa, Russian coast guards said on Sunday. The pirates boarded the tanker and stole the contents of the till before making their escape in a motor boat, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS quot
HONOLULU (AP) _ A Tesoro oil tanker spilled up to 2,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday morning. Tesoro spokesman Nathan Hokama says the spill occurred about one-point-five miles off the coast of Oahu when a hose line pumping oil from the tanker to a floating buoy disconne
At 2200GMT the Volvo Ocean Race headquarters issued the following statement concerning Bouwe Bekking
The order book position of the Indian shipyards stands at Rs 10,000 crore at present and is expected to improve further, Mr T.R. Baalu, Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, told the members of Consultative Committee here on Saturday. In order to offer incentives to shipbuilding activi
A ceremony marking the keel laying for Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria was held today at the Marghera shipyard of Fincantieri near Venice, Italy. The second largest Cunarder ever built, Queen Victoria will enter service on December 11, 2007 and become the third in Cunard’s fleet of Queens when she join
WASHINGTON — Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country’s coastal waters to energy development. The House late Thursday rejected an attempt to end the quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling
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Extra security workers will be on duty for the return to port Sunday morning of the Mariner of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which is home-ported at Port Canaveral. The ship has been in the news since one of the passengers was lost at sea on Monday. “There will be some heightened security
Gouda – Imtech N.V. (technical services provider in Europe) announces that it has acquired a majority interest of 51% in Tess Electrical Marine Inc. in Fort Lauderdale in Florida USA . The acquisition fits in with Imtech’s strategy of further growth in the maintenance and services market for luxury
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Ports of Auckland and the Auckland Regional Council are this week providing what other New Zealand ports cannot for the giant ship the FPSO Whakaaropai. The enormous size and draft of the vessel and also that it has no ship mooring lines and only one anchor, means it is not permitted to enter the po
The U.S. Navy has awarded Mobile-based Austal Hull 130 Chartering LLC a $13.4 million contract for a 228-day lease of a high speed vessel to transport soldiers and equipment among countries in the West Pacific, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Parent company, Australia-based Austal Ltd.,
On Friday 12th of May 2006, DAMEN and COTECMAR of Cartagena, Colombia signed a contract for the construction of two Damen Stan Tugs 2208. The vessels are expected to be delivered by mid 2007. The tugs will be constructed for Damen’s stock position and are the result of many years of close cooperatio
