Onyx, the 38,50-metre yacht built by the Italian shipyard Sanlorenzo and designed by Francesco Paszkowski Design is one of the 8 Finalists for Boat International’s World Superyacht Awards within the section “Best semi-displacement or planing Motoryacht in the 30m to 39 m size range”.
Austal has secured its first European defence contract with an order for four 21.2 metre inshore patrol craft – including training and spares support – with the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM). The vessels will be built at Austal’s Australian facilities and are scheduled for delivery by the end of the y
The first berths of South Africa’s long-awaited Ngqura container terminal (NCT) will be handed over to Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) in June this year, the operator has confirmed. Originally slated to open a year earlier, the facility faced a series of delays and escalating costs due to controversy
A jewellery company on Teesside has become the first sponsor of the Tall Ships’ Race, which will end in Hartlepool in 2010. Local firm Mobeus will create the captains’ trophies and the rest of the prizes for the world-famous event. It is expected that more than a million visitors will descend on the
A large fuel oil slick thought to have leaked into the Celtic Sea during a Russian refuelling incident is heading to the coasts of Ireland and Wales. The UK coastguard estimates up to 1,000 tonnes may be on the water, but Russia denies the spill is on that scale. Irish coastguards said the spill, 50
The biggest naval deployment for more than a decade is due to be get under way from Plymouth later. The TAURUS 09 task force, involving 12 ships and 3,300 personnel, will set sail from Devonport naval base. It will engage in training operations in the Mediterranean before deploying through the Suez
The port of Belfast has suffered because of the global economic downturn, according to figures released on Wednesday. The figures revealed that cargo movements in 2008 fell by 5.5% to 16.5 million tonnes. This followed a six-year period of continued growth. Container and oil traffic were each down b
The signing of the contract between the Dutch company Nieland and the Indian Killick Agencies & Marketing was a perfect ending of the seminar ‘Partership & Cooperation in Heavy Seas’. This seminar was organised on February 12th 2009 at the Renaissance hotel in Mumbai and was meant to answer how to c
On 1 April 2009 the responsibility for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) activities within the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group will be transferred from Maersk Tankers to Maersk FPSOs. LNG will then come under the responsibility of Mr. Paul Carsten Pedersen, CEO of Maersk FPSOs. The motivation for incorpora
12.000 visitors, + 7% for the seventh International exhibition for technology, subcontracting and design for boats, yachts and ships. The results for Seatec 2009 are all “on the up”. Visitor numbers rose once again, 12,000, showing an increase of +7% on 2008: an expected success however in view of t
After more than 23 years of service with German classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL), Ronald Diederik (Ron) Kampinga 64 has retired. As Country Manager GL Netherlands, Managing Director of GL Netherlands B.V. and Deputy Area Manager Benelux/Northwest Europe Ron Kampinga has helped to shape
Plans to build 10 wind farms off the coast of Scotland moved a step forward after the Crown Estate gave companies the green light to explore the sites. Scottish Power and E.ON are among the nine firms to be awarded “exclusivity agreements” for locations which include the Solway Firth and Wigtown Bay
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Panama as the fourth and Norway as the fifth flag state have now ratified the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). The convention comes into force when both a minimum of 33 % of the world’s gross tonnage as well as 30 states have ratified MLC. Liberia, Marshall Islands and Bahamas had alrea
