Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract from Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (Diamond Offshore) for the major upgrading of semisubmersible rig (semi) for US$102 million. Ocean Monarch will arrive at Keppel FELS in mid 2006 for the upgrading and is expected to be operationally ready in t
South Korean shipbuilders racked up large overseas orders in the first quarter, keeping them on course to far exceed yearly targets, industry sources said Sunday.
There has been a change in the lead of the Volvo Ocean Race as the boats leave Rio behind after a memorable stopover. There are still only three miles from the front of the fleet to the back, but now ABN AMRO TWO are in front.
The Volvo Ocean Race boats are on Guanabara Bay preparing for the start of Leg 5 at 1610GMT. The sky is heavily overcast and it’s hot and humid. The water is shiny with no ripples from the breeze
Bouwe Bekking says his movistar crew has every confidence in their reinforced boat ahead of today
A boat which capsized off Bahrain with the loss of at least 58 lives was not licensed to sail as a pleasure cruiser, officials have said.
Fishermen in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are being given money to modernise their boats.
An official Yemeni agency reported that Somaliland released 15 Yemeni fishing boats and their crew. According to Yemen’s Saba News Agency, the boats were seized in the Barbara seaport on the pretext that they were fishing in Somaliland waters.
On Saturday 1 April 2006 Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group.
Samsung Heavy Industries has won a $833m order from Qatar to build LNG vessels for delivery by November 2008, according to a company statement.
Police are questioning the captain of a boat which capsized off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 57 people. The boat’s owners blamed overcrowding for the disaster, pinning blame on the tour company operating the vessel.
A representative of the company that hired a tour boat which capsized off Bahrain, killing at least 57 people, has insisted his firm was not to blame.
European Union regulation has been called into effect by the obscure Committee for the Discontinuance of Imperial Appellations in Public Life and Nomenclature which has serious repercussions for the continuance of the Volvo Open 70 class and, indeed, for many classes in sailing today.
SMIT has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards from the Netherlands for constructing 11 newly built vessels. Two of these vessels (type ASD 3211, 65 tons bp) have been awarded with a long-term contract for the Terminals Division in Equatorial Guinea and will be delivered in respectively Septembe
