A syndicate with environmental issues at the heart of their campaign has emerged as a potential eighth entry for the 2008-09 race. Known as Carbon Challenge, the objective of the campaign is to raise awareness of the harmful effects of global warming as the team travels the globe by significantly re
The leading Turkish yachtbuilder Aegean Yacht is working on two new luxury 24 m Motor Sailers Rosa and Diva. The new Aegean Sailor 24 M is a classic steel ketch with an elegant and everlasting design. She is an ultra spacy and serious blue water vessel both for the commercial and private yacht owner
The 2008 schedule, released Monday, shows 211 ship visits, delivering 400,000 passengers on 25 different vessels to Ogden Point. Cruise ships will also dock at Victoria Harbour. Ten pocket ship visits, involving three vessels, are on the schedule.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore solutions, has received an order from US Navy to develop a Test Article Vehicle Transfer System. The delivery of the system is set to be completed by the end of year 2009 and the value of the order is approximately EUR 1
‘2007 was a top year for Imtech’, says René van der Bruggen, CEO of technical services provider Imtech. ‘There was a substantial increase in technology investment in almost all the markets relevant for Imtech – buildings, industry, infrastructure & mobility and marine. Because Imtech can offer total
Havila Shipping ASA has entered into a contract with Havyard Leirvik for building of a IRM vessel called Havyard 855. The vessel is developed by Havyard Maritime in close cooperation with Havila Shipping ASA.The vessel has a length of 97,5,4 m, breath of 19,8 m. In order to meet environmental and co
VOSTA LMG has been awarded a contract for a cutter suction dredge CSD750 by INTERNATIONAL SEAPORT DREDGING LTD., a joint venture company of the Belgian dredging major Dredging International (member of the DEME group) and the Indian construction giant Larsen & Toubro. The dredge will be used for dred
Anti-whaling activists say they’ve bugged ‘several’ Japanese whaling ships, allowing them to track the fleet’s location for at least another year. Activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) claim to have hidden devices on a number of whaling vessels, including the harpoon vessel Yus
A Holland America cruise ship returned Monday from a 10-day trip to Mexico with at least 104 passengers and six crew members who had suffered from a gastrointestinal illness. The passengers and crew members are believed to have come down with norovirus, which can produce nausea, vomiting and diarrhe
The United States government has installed scanning equipment at a Hampshire container port to monitor shipments bound for its shores. The hi-tech equipment at Southampton Port scans lorries and containers for radioactive materials that could form part of a bomb.
A large fishing net which is the length of about six football pitches has been lost overboard from fishing boat.
Shareholders of Lamnalco Group continue to pursue a merger with the Terminals Division of Smit Internationale Today Smit Internationale nv rejected the bid from the shareholders of the Lamnalco Group on their global oil and gas terminal services.
Finland’s Finstaship is planning to spin-off its multipurpose icebreakers to raise money for fleet expansion, TradeWinds reports.
FERRIES between Tyneside and Amsterdam have been cancelled this week while repairs are carried out on a runaway ship. The 30,000-tonne DFDS Seaways vessel, King of Scandinavia, crashed into an oil platform on Friday after it was torn from its moorings when freak winds battered the North East.
