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
Petro-Canada’s immediate focus is on expanding its oil-sands operations, the company’s CEO said yesterday, cautioning that the energy giant is still “a long way away” from securing results in its plans to import Russian natural gas into North America.
Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat), announced that it has been awarded, 25 year timecharters by Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited (II), (QGII) for six ‘QMax’ LNG carriers of approximately 265,000 cubic meters carrying capacity each.
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with GEO ASA for the building of an ROV Support Vessel. The value of the contract is approximately NOK 400 million. The vessel will be built by Aker Yards in Brazil, with delivery scheduled for May 2008
