One day before the start of leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race, the members of the Ericsson Racing Team are enjoying their last moments of peace before entering a whole new wild world: the Southern Ocean.
Among the crew of the Greenpeace ships in the harsh waters of the Southern Ocean, he is known as the whale rider. Australian activist Mikey Rosato’s defiant action of standing on the back of a harpooned whale
China’s largest sino-foreign capital investment project, the petrochemical project off South China Sea has completed construction and will go into production soon, said sources with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China’s largest offshore oil producer.
KOLKATA: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is expected to assess the commercial viability of the Bengal Offshore deposit within the next two to three weeks.
Solo sailor Dee Caffari has repaired her autopilots and is making full speed towards Cape Horn in an attempt to get round the treacherous area on Monday with favourable northerly winds.
BAE Systems has sold its German sonar business Atlas Elektronik to the European aerospace group EADS and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Technologies. They will pay about
The Indian Navy spent the year 2005 furthering its policy of ‘Reaching Out to Maritime Neighbours’ to enhance peace and security in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and demonstrate its role as a stabilising force in the area.
PANAJI: Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) here has embarked on a modernisation drive to augment its infrastructure facilities to manufacture state-of-the-art vessels with competitive prices and shorter delivery schedules.
New Hampshire continued to be an excellent place to do business in 2005. As with any dynamic sector, events had their ups and downs, from jaw-dropping gas prices to ex-Tyco executives’ jail time to more hiring at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The Bach Dang Shipyard, a member of the Vietnam National Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (VINASHINB) early this morning successfully launched VINASHIN SEA, an oil tanker of 13,500 tonnes, the biggest oil tanker launched so far in Vietnam.
An asbestos-insulated French aircraft carrier began the first stage of its controversial final voyage to Alang breaker’s yard on Saturday after a court reportedly ordered environmental group Greenpeace to keep clear.
With two days left to prepare for one on the most gruelling legs of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06, the Southern Ocean stretch from Cape Town to Melbourne, the talk of the town, or dockside, is of extreme cold, icebergs and whales.
Nakheel, a leading property developer in Dubai, has denied that it was calling off the Palm Deira project, a report said.
The Ericsson Racing Team has officially retired from Leg Two of the Volvo Ocean Race after experiencing failure to her hydraulic keel movement system in the early hours of 4 January. She arrived into Port Elizabeth (RSA) at 0900 GMT on Friday evening
