The day dawned brightly for the Angostura Tobago Regatta yesterday. After a night of thundershowers and lightning, the fleet were welcomed by perfect racing conditions with winds gusting at 15-20 knots, and the blazing sunshine was dappled by cloud cover. Personally, having spent the night at the Hi
Fourteen months after breaking the non-stop singlehanded westabout round the world record, Jean-Luc van den Heede is to take on the non-stop solo round Britain and Ireland record. The former maths teacher and Vendee Globe skipper is planning to start his attempt in Adrien, his 86 ft sloop.
For years, local environmentalists had protested the dredging of this area
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container-shipping company, and Royal P&O Nedlloyd NV are in talks on the industry’s largest-ever merger. Rotterdam-based P&O Nedlloyd, in a statement today, didn’t give details about the negotiations with the Maersk Sealand unit of Copenhagen-based A.P.
The decision by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to select Aveva’s marine products for the design and production of ships and offshore projects is expected to have strong positive effects in the Middle East, said Louay Dahmash, Regional Director, Middle East, Aveva. The contract, worth in excess of $1
The chief executive officer of an Iowa shipping company has appealed his conviction on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and falsifying records to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Rick Dean Stickle’s attorney filed the appeal April 7. U.S. District Judge Allan Gold se
Plans to start dredging the Hudson River by 2006 face delay as General Electric and the federal Environmental Protection Agency continue to negotiate terms of the project. Both EPA and GE spokesmen said last week that they still expect to start the PCB cleanup as scheduled. But Rich Schiafo, environ
Chinese rescue workers have not found anymore Vietnamese crew members or their cargo ship that went missing in Chinese waters last week except for the body found May 4. The SEA BEE ship and 23 crew members went missing, with the cause still unknown, when it was traveling from Qinghuang Dao of China
An Indian delegation headed by Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh, DG Indian Coast Guard, is visiting Pakistan on 10th & 11th May 2005, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Defence. The visit of the delegation is in continuation of the ongoing dialogue on CMBs, which will help to bolste
This 600-mile-long passage between the Indian and Pacific oceans is infested with pirates who aren’t the somehow lovable types popularized in the recent Johnny Depp film “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Indeed when one of the main global security organizations fighting piracy sent out a poster promoting
For the shipbuilding industry, changes approved by Congress for the way the Navy pays for warships may have been the equivalent of the industry’s ship coming in. Next fiscal year’s $2.6 trillion federal budget allows the Navy to buy a ship over several years, instead of setting aside full funding in
Sanxenxo (Pontevedra), May 5, 2005 – The 2005-2006 edition of the Volvo Ocean race will have to comply with a new rule that brings major changes with respect to previous editions of this Round the World race. In the words of the VOR organization, the new VO70 rule was developed
The Spanish VO70 moviestar has arrived in Rio de Janeiro completing over 8,000 miles on her journey to the VOR start.
Businesses in Vietnam are shouldering the heavy burden of too many port fees for exporting or importing goods, which they say is shrinking their profits and hurting their competitiveness. For example, to transport a container of goods to a port for shipping, an exporter has to pay at least seven fee
