The warship HMS Cornwall has been rededicated in the county on Saturday after a comprehensive refit. The ceremony took place at County Wharf in Falmouth, the same place she was commissioned in 1988 by the ship’s sponsor, Diana Princess of Wales.
Seatec 2006, the international exhibition of shipbuilding and yacht technology, due to take place in Marina di Carrara from February 2nd to 4th, will host a meeting on Yacht Building Technology.
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A PANAMANIAN container ship split in half after it collided in heavy fog with a cargo vessel from Cyprus near the Peruvian port of Callao.
Six Algerian stowaways were yesterday apprehended by Malta Freeport security personnel while carrying out patrols at the terminal at about 5 a.m. The stowaways were noticed coming out of a container that had just been unloaded off the mv Nicola.
Angry passengers on board the troubled cruise liner Queen Mary 2 were due to meet the boss of operator Cunard after the company offered to pay a full refund.
The Bombay High Court on Friday approved demerger of offshore business of Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd, comprising drilling services and marine logistics into a separate new company.
It was an early start for the Ericsson boys this morning with the arrival of their yacht by cargo ship. Ericsson was offloaded from the towering Wallenius Wilhelmsen ship ‘Tagus’ and arrived into the Volvo Ocean Race village at Melbourne Docklands early this afternoon.
The Indonesian Navy said Friday it has deployed two warships to the maritime border with Australia in a bid to prevent Indonesian fishermen from illegal border-crossing.
A Vietnamese state-run giant shipbuilder has targeted US$1 billion in production value this year and aims to double it by 2010 through expansion, a top corporate official said.
Alaska’s lone congressman and its senior senator have been quietly pushing to move the Coast Guard cutter Healy (the nation’s newest and most-advanced icebreaker) from the Port of Seattle, where it has been based since its launch in 2000, to Anchorage.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited at Kolkata handed over the first of the new series of fast attack crafts (Yard 2051) to Indian Navy recently.
ABG Shipyard has secured a $29.7 million contract for the construction of three anchor handling tugs (90 tonne bollard pull) for offshore applications from Cyprus-based Lamnalco.
Volvo Ocean racer, Brasil 1 arrived in Fremantle today and has been lifted out of the water so she can be loaded onto a truck and driven across the Australian continent to Melbourne, for repair in time for the in-port racing on February 4th.
