An extra 500 workers will be needed at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk this year, bosses have said. The docks is set to lose around 300 workers as they reach retirement age and needs to expand but is struggling to recruit enough apprentice engineers. A port spokesperson says young people are being
A cruise ship hit a pier while docking in Mexico, cutting a 13-meter (42-foot) gash in the ship’s side and delaying its return to New Orleans. Nobody was hurt, but the 2,030 passengers will have to either fly back on chartered flights or wait until the repairs are done, said Michael Sheehan, a spoke
Despite winning three Olympic sailing medals – two of them gold – it looks as if there will not be any place for Ben Ainsley in the next Americas Cup. The Briton has been part of the Team New Zealand afterguard but looks set to miss out on a place in the actual sailing crew […]
The No. 3 women’s sailing team placed second behind Harvard at the Women’s New England Championships this weekend at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London. The top five of the 13 teams present at the New England Championships qualified for the Women’s North American Championships set to take pl
Just off the coast of this Spanish city, two 80-foot America’s Cup yachts charge each other under full sail, as if they were jousting at sea. It’s all part of the game, the tactics, of training by the U.S. team in a bid to bring the America’s Cup back to the United States in 2007 […]
The Interisland ferry with 670 people on board, lost all propulsion near the entrance to Tory Channel yesterday morning. Emergency services were activated, but engineers were able to restore power. During the crossing, passengers endured six metre swells and winds reaching 100 kilometres an hour bef
Many in Naples were disheartened to learn this week that the Army Corps of Engineers would not be dredging shoal from the Causeway and Chute River. Over the years, sediment build-up along the river has created massive sandbars that impede navigation and pose a threat to passing vessels. Boaters must
A proposal to make the shallow strait between India and Sri Lanka navigable has upset environmentalists and the port of Colombo. To its supporters, it is a dream project, no less than the “Suez of the East.” To its opponents it would be an environmental catastrophe. Either way, plans to dredge a cha
The semi-submersible barge LB200 has started the pipelay of the longest subsea pipeline in the world stretching 1,200 kilometres between Nyhamna in Mid-Norway to Easington in Great Britain. From 2007, Ormen Lange can supply up to one fifth of the UK’s gas requirements for decades to come. More than
It will be months before it is known how much gas is held in a reserve near Port Campbell, on the Victorian south-west coast. Woodside Energy has discovered the prospect after drilling two wells four kilometres offshore during the past three weeks. Woodside’s Steve Rigby says a third well will be dr
As Congress moves toward opening protected Alaskan wilderness to petroleum drilling, energy company activity is picking up in California’s coastal waters, where new exploration has been blocked for more than two decades. Drillers are reworking wells and considering reviving old platforms in places w
A new oil and gas reserve has been found in the Nam Con Son basin offshore of the southern Ba Ria
Kuwait’s foreign minister said Sunday that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will likely visit the emirate soon for talks on disputed maritime borders with huge natural gas reserves. Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah told the state-run KUNA news agency that during his visit to Tehran on Wednesday the two si
Princess Cruise Line this weekend will dry-dock two of its foreign-flagged ships at Pearl Harbor for the first time. Hawaii Shipyards Inc., a local ship-repair company, will clean, paint and overhaul the two cruise ships — Tahitian Princess and Pacific Princess. The multimillion-dollar contract is e
