The air was desperately still in Guanabara Bay in Rio on Saturday morning as crews waited for the sea breezes to start their lunchtime murmurs ahead of a slightly bigger blow mid afternoon to lure the Volvo fleet across the start line in the fourth In Port race.
Friday 24 March 2006, Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 15,300 BHP VS 472 anchor handling and supply vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway.
A big day in the history of Port Canaveral. Port commissioners voted unanimously to give him permission to finalize a land-lease agreement with Ambassador Services to expand the company’s cargo facilities on the port’s north side.
Before the Queen of the North ferry sunk to the depths of Wright Sound off the rugged British Columbia coast, it helped keep hundreds of isolated residents alive and their communities thriving.
The St. Lawrence Seaway hopes to attract ship traffic from booming China by bringing in the first all-container vessel to the inland waterway this year.
Frontier Drilling USA Inc, Houston, has engaged Aker Arctic of Helsinki, Finland to proceed with the initial design and conceptual development of the modification work for their turret moored Drillship “Frontier Discoverer”.
Babcock International shares leapt yesterday as it emerged that a joint takeover bid from BAE Systems and VT Group, which could value the group at up to
Mystery surrounded the fate of two people on Thursday who went missing and are now feared dead after an ocean-going ferry sank when it strayed onto the rocks on Canada’s Pacific coast.
It looked like a big hunk of steel. But the 25-30-tonne slice of ship moving around Tenix’s Whangarei shipyard marked a significant day in the city’s proud shipbuilding history as the keel for the first of four new navy ships.
Yesterday’s announcement from BAE Systems and VT Group that they have held talks about a potential joint bid for Babcock International suggests that the UK is on the way to getting a single source for its surface ship and submarine requirements.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Shenyang Pump Co., Ltd. (SPC) have agreed to establish a joint venture company (JV) in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China to conduct sales and engineering relating to pumps.
Acergy Northern Europe and Canada Survey Business Unit has purchased two KONGSBERG HAIN subsea systems. The systems are due for delivery in late March for initial use on a key project for a major oil company in Norway.
Researchers are trying to revive the coastal search for the 16th century vessel that carried some of the earliest Spanish setters to Georgetown County. A state archaeologist said officials hope to hire a geologist to pinpoint the exact location of the 1526 North Island shoreline.
ENSENADA, Baja California – After 75 days sitting in sand, APL Panama is finally where she should be – afloat in ocean waters.
