An Irish man is among six tugboat crew members who have been seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. He was on board the Danish-owned Svitzer Korsakov, which was captured early on Friday morning and is now at anchor in Somali waters.
Helen Mirren is set to name and launch her first ship – a duty almost exclusively performed by British royalty.
Teekay Offshore GP LLC, the general partner of Teekay Offshore Partners L.P., has declared a cash distribution of $0.40 per unit for the quarter ended December 31, 2007, an increase of $0.015 per unit, or 3.9%, from the third quarter of 2007. Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.’s quarterly distributions h
Surveyors examining a refrigerated cargo ship which was battered by a storm off Cornwall have found an 18ins (0.46m) hole in her side. Seven people had to be airlifted off the Horncliff, including the ship’s captain, when she was struck by a huge wave in a force 10 gale.
A ship grounded after it was hit by a freak wave may be stranded off Blackpool for another week because of bad weather. Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention, said the salvage operation for Riverdance is being hampered by the weather
Bad weather has prevented a repair ship from setting off to mend one of three broken undersea cables providing Internet services to parts of the Middle East and Asia, an Indian-owned cable operator said.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s largest shipbuilder, has won a $841.1 million order to build six very large container ships, the South Korean firm said on Monday.
A number of salvage companies are looking at recovering a trawler which ran aground on rocks on St Kilda, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said. Fourteen crew were rescued from the Spinningdale by a Stornoway Coastguard helicopter on Friday.
On 2 February Maersk Contractors named the latest addition to the fleet of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) from Keppel Shipyard Ltd. in Singapore. The Sponsor, Mrs. Kim Spence, wife of Executive Vice President, Enterprise Capability, Woodside Energy Ltd., Keith Spence, nam
About 400 vessels from six European nations catch brown shrimp in the North Sea’s Crangon fishery, off the coast of Holland. Because the rate of catches has been too high, the fishermen have been blamed for the demise of the area’s shrimp stocks by retailers.
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a $460 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of a tenth T-AKE dry cargo-ammunition ship, and to purchase long-lead construction materials for an eleventh ship. NASSCO is already und
A Bahrain Coastguard team battled 10-foot waves and strong winds to airlift 17 sailors in a dramatic rescue operation at high seas yesterday. The sailors had spent several hours in a raft in choppy seas before being saved by the helicopter team.
A cargo ship captain who was seriously injured in a force 10 gale off the Isles of Scilly is in hospital after being rescued by helicopter. The aircraft lifted six other people from the ship 70 miles off Land’s End. Two of them had less serious injuries.
Commenting on the discovery, Andy Inglis, chief executive of BP Exploration and Production said: ‘Portia strengthens our track record of exploration success in Block 31. It will make a material contribution to our resource base in Block 31, and will underpin the scale of our business in Angola.’
