Team New Zealand beat BMW Oracle in the in the pre-America’s Cup yachting regatta off Valencia today to complete the series with 10 wins from 11 races. However, yesterday’s loss to defending America’s Cup champions Alinghi meant they completed this fourth series of races leading into the America’s C
With a need for reliable training conditions, the Ericsson Racing Team will set up their training camp in Vigo, on Spain’s Atlantic coast. Davila Sports Marina will host the team until the race start late this year. The waters off Vigo will provide excellent training and testing opportunities and Da
South Korea is in favor of utilizing whale resources but cannot say whether it agrees with whale hunting, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Oh Keo-don said Monday. Oh told reporters after the opening ceremony of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) 57th assembly meeting that South K
The Pakistani and the U.S. navies will hold joint exercises from Tuesday in the Arabian Sea aimed at ensuring waters near some of the world’s most important shipping lanes remain trouble-free, officials said on Monday.
G E Shipping announced on Monday that it has delivered its VLCC,
CHESHIRE firm Nalfleet has won a global contract to supply water treatment chemicals in a deal worth more than #500,000. The deal has been struck with TBW Alliance which is a purchasing co-operation between Teekay Shipping, Bergesend ASA and World-Wide Shipping. Nalfleet will supply on-board water t
Maritime authorities are looking to tomorrow’s spring tide off the coast of East London to assist in refloating the beached bulk carrier Kiperousa. “Weather permitting and progress permitting, the first real attempt to refloat the Kiperousa will be made on Wednesday because the spring high tide is o
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Australia will help the Philippines assess its maritime surveillance and response capabilities in a bid to improve security in the region, Defense Minister Robert Hill said June 18. The initiative emerged from a two-day security seminar held in Manila this week to examine how Australia could work mo
China COSCO Holdings Co Ltd, the country’s biggest container shipping firm, will raise up to HK$12.9 billion (US$1.6 billion) in a Hong Kong IPO, according to the company’s prospectus released yesterday. China COSCO, operator of the world’s seventh-largest container fleet and the largest in the coun
Technological progress has played a key role in the rapid development of China’s shipbuilding industry, said Zhang Guangqin, deputy director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council. China is
Emma Richards and her crew on her Pindar Alphagraphics won the Open 60 class in the annual Round the Island race. Along with her partner, Mike Sanderson, skipper of ABN Amro in the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, and other members of the ABN Amro crew, Pindar was first away from a light-wind start early
Venerable Norwegian shipowning company Wilh Wilhelmsen said Monday that it was taking over maritime supplier Unitor. Wilhelmsen already has agreements to buy more than 90 percent of Unitor’s shares. Wilhelmsen is paying NOK 73.50 per share, which values the takeover at nearly NOK 1.3 billion (USD 20
Western Intelligence services have long asserted that Al-Qaeda has an ambitious maritime capabilities program. Reportedly, operatives have received swimming and scuba training for demolitions and suicide attacks. Al Qaeda is also reported to own or control an estimated two dozen merchant ships world
