ABUJA – Ethnic Ijaw leaders tried to secure the release of four foreign oil workers held by militants in Nigeria
The Department of the Navy has announced the naming of the Navy’s newest combat logistics force underway replenishment naval vessel, the USNS Alan Shepard, to honor the first American in space, Rear Adm. Alan B. Shepard Jr.
BATH, Maine – Unlike his predecessor, Navy Secretary Donald Winter is showing “strong leadership” when it comes to boosting the Pentagon’s shipbuilding budget and trying to increase the size of the Navy’s fleet, Sen. Olympia Snowe said Friday.
The military celebration Thursday, complete with the Navy Band New Orleans, marked the beginning of a new design for Navy ships.
The corporation currently has received hundreds of orders worth billions of US dollars, including orders made by customers from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the UK and German.
Surrounded by spectator boats, press and ABN AMRO supporters, a very relieved Mike Sanderson was at last able to raise his arms aloft at 0908 and 40 seconds GMT to acknowledge that he with his team aboard ABN AMRO ONE was the winner of Leg 2, Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06.
CAGLARY: Crude oil rose to a four-month high on concern supplies will be curtailed by political instability in Nigeria and a standoff between Iran and the US and its European allies over nuclear issues.
Thousands of spectators lined the river and hundreds of thousands more followed the whale’s progress on live television as it appeared unexpectedly in central London.
The boom in cruise ship holidays is making big financial waves here with a record number of luxury liners heading to New Zealand this summer, and they’re expected to generate $250 million worth of economic activity.
Who would have thought last March that in the ten months between emailing an application form and standing on the dock here in Melbourne today, that the handful of amateur sailors given their chance to sail around the world would celebrate being the fastest monohull crew on the planet?
Richard Woods – catamaran yacht designer from Cornwall – and American crewmember Jetti Mantzke were rescued from their 33ft catamaran Eclipse off the coast of Mexico yesterday, 90 miles from Haultuclo.
ABN AMRO One is now just 152 miles away from the line but in just 8kts of wind Mike Sanderson and team are currently experiencing one of the most stressful points of the race so far. Their teammates on ABN AMRO Two are now just 54 miles astern
Nigerian militants who have waged a month-long campaign of sabotage and kidnapping against the oil industry said on Friday they would resume their attacks on the world’s eighth largest oil exporter very shortly.
SINGAPORE : Keppel FELS has secured a repeat order for an ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from ENSCO, a US-based offshore oil and gas drilling contractor.
