City Index Leopard, the 100 foot maxi yacht run by Ocean Marine, the British sailing team owned by Mike Slade, has arrived into Sydney to prepare for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
The name ‘Rocket’ as in Rocket Boomer, is coming to the end of its remarkable journey. As of January 1, 2008 it will take off for the last time – and then disappear for ever into the history books. From that day on, only the name ‘Boomer’ will be used on all Boomer rigs, from […]
They say politics and mining are tough, but it doesn’t get much more dangerous than working on boats. And fishing trawlers are especially dangerous – a fact highlighted by last week’s close call for a Mooloolaba-based crew who narrowly escaped tragedy when their boat was hit by a container ship.
Yemen and DP World have reached a preliminary accord for the UAE company to run the Aden container terminal in the Arab state, Yemen’s transport minister was on Saturday quoted as saying.
China blocked another US warship and a military cargo aircraft from gaining access to Hong Kong in the latest in a string of refusals that threatens to jeopardise the recent improvement in military relations between the two countries.
In letters to both the challengers and Alinghi, which were leaked last week, Russel Coutts says that he wants BMW Oracle and Alinghi to commit to an AC 34, in Valencia, in 2011. Alinghi/ACM has already committed to Valencia 2011, so if the Swiss were to win a Deed of Gift Challenge Valencia mayoress
THE world’s elite are cutting short their Queensland holidays because their chartered super yachts cannot access beaches and reef touted on tourism websites. The Crown Prince of Dubai and Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, who paid more than $100,000 a week to charter the yachts, were among th
A cruise ship fire killed five Egyptians and wounded two others on Sunday near the ancient city of Luxor in southern Egypt, a security official confirmed to Xinhua.
The recent sinking of the MS Explorer cruise ship in Antarctica has spotlighted the dangers of operating passenger vessels in remote polar areas. The ice-reinforced Explorer was a veteran of the polar cruise-ship trade. It had made dozens of voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic since 1969, safely tra
Today Concordia Maritime’s product tanker Stena Perros, a so-called P-MAX tanker, will be named at Brodosplit Shipyard in Croatia. The Stena Perros, like her sisters Stena Paris and Stena Provence, both of which were built and named at Brodosplit, has been chartered to the French oil and energy comp
Coastguards have called off the search for a fisherman who is missing and feared dead in the English Channel after a trawler ran into difficulties.
On 1 December 2007 A/S Norske Shell (Shell) will assume responsibility for operations on the recently opened Ormen Lange gas field off the coast of Norway. Until the handover Norsk Hydro led the Ormen Lange development while Shell was responsible for well delivery, subsurface and operations readines
Tano Capital, LLC, a global alternative assets firm, has invested $15 million in Mumbai-based ABG Motors, a newly created arm of ABG Engineering & Construction, through its affiliate in a private equity transaction. ABG Motors is part of India’s largest private sector ship builder, ABG Shipyards,
On Friday it had secured a 245 billion won ($263.9 million) order from the Middle East to build four petrochemical products tankers.
