Swan 45 Goombay Smash (William Douglass, USA) was top of the class today, coming first overall on the first day of racing at the Swan 45 Gold Cup 2006. Held as part of Acura Key West, the Swan 45 fleet has a truly international presence at the regatta, with 16 boats
Hyundai Corp, a South Korean foreign trading company, said on Sunday its shipbuilding arm in China had won shipbuilding orders worth a combined $297 million from two Greek companies.
WORKERS AT Alang shipyard might just have been spared a brush with poison. The entry of the toxic French warship Le Clemenceau’s into Indian waters appears unlikely with the Supreme Court on Monday saying it would not allow the vessel to be dismantled in Gujarat until the customs department clarifie
KEPPEL Corp, the world’s largest maker of shallow-water oil rigs, is among six groups that have bid for contracts to build US$1.3 billion ($2.12 billion) of oil and gas tankers for Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company.
A holiday company is to begin cruising out of a Flintshire port which welcomed passengers for Irish Sea crossings until two years ago. Gloucester firm Travelscope said it was planning Mediterranean cruises from Mostyn Docks later this year.
The actual impact of offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on marine life in the Gulf of Mexico will be substantially less than originally identified by environmental analyses, according to findings released today by The Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG) from an independent ecological
KIEV, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Tuesday condemned as illegal Russia’s dredging of the seabed in the Kerch Strait, the Soviet-era border between the two countries.
Statoil aims to study opportunities for injecting carbon dioxide to achieve improved oil recovery (IOR) from its Volve discovery near the Sleipner fields in the North Sea.
Domestic shipping companies are headed for tough times, as ocean freight rates are plummeting on account of the Chinese slowdown and supply of more vessels than cargoes.
Transas is glad to announce the signing of the new contract with Palmali Shipping, one of the largest shipping companies in Turkey, for the procurement of the navigational equipment set for 5 vessels. The sum of the contract runs up to more than 1 mln EURO. The vessels are dry cargo ships planned fo
Nautronix has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Keppel FELS Limited in Singapore for the supply of systems for their new construction for ENSCO International Incorporated. The ENSCO 8500 is an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig.
The 30-year-old boat called
Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd has been awarded exploration rights to a block in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia, in which Shell will have a 100 percent interest.
CAIRO: Egypt approved yesterday the transit through the Suez Canal of a decommissioned French warship heading for an Indian shipyard that had been stranded for three days over fears it was an environmental hazard.
