California Attorney General Jerry Brown and three environmental groups today announced they have filed petitions asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas air pollution from ocean-going ships. The petition submitted by Brown on behalf of the state of California estim
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE: GNK) today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell the Genco Trader, a 1990-built Panamax vessel, to SW Shipping Co., Ltd. for $44 million less a 2% brokerage commission payable to a third party. The Company expects to realize a net gain of approxim
The US Navy has renewed its engine services contract with Rolls-Royce to provide support for the F405 engines which power T-45 training aircraft. The contract is worth $66 million to Rolls-Royce and is the fifth year of a five-year agreement.
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a GBP 16 million contract by Magnox Electric Limited, to design, build and install a plant for the retrieval and encapsulation of wet intermediate level wastes (ILW) at Hunterston A Site in West Kilbride, Scotland. The project is part of the site’s nuclear decommission
A new £250,000 wing is to be built at a Cumbrian museum to house the legendary Bluebird speed boat. The money, to provide a permanent home for Donald Campbell’s Bluebird at the Ruskin Museum, has been donated by Cumbria Vision.
The skippers of two Cornish boats have both said they do not know how they managed to collide with each other as neither of them saw the other vessel. It was thought the Lady Hamilton of Helford had hit a submerged tree trunk in the dark, before sinking.
You must be relieved, as we were, to learn in these unsettled economic times that the market for luxury yachts and especially megayachts is sailing right along, with sales worldwide increasing 15 percent a year.
The Volvo Ocean Race has marked the one-year countdown to the start of 2008-09 event in Alicante, Spain, with the launch of a new free online TV channel www.VolvoOceanRace.tv allowing race enthusiasts to enjoy the drama and history of the great event on their home computers.
THE MIDDLE SEA RACE 1968. Jimmy White and I met in late ’67 in the Landfall Club – a small bar frequented by sailing people opposite the Sliema yacht marina. We both wore a RORC tie. It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship as Jimmy was early retired to Malta with his beautiful Frans […
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore solutions, has during August and September received offshore equipment orders worth approximately EUR 60 million. The orders include among others six cranes to be delivered for offshore vessels which will be built at Dav
A fishing boat has sunk two miles off the Cornwall coast, after colliding with what coastguards believe was a large floating tree trunk. Three crew members of The Lady Hamilton, from the Helford area, were brought ashore safely.
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol E.P.), BP Angola (Block 18) BV, as the Operator, and Sonangol Sinopec International Limited (SSI) announce that production from the Greater Plutonio development area in Block 18, offshore Angola, started on 01 October 2007. It consists of five d
Saipem UK has been awarded a contract for the installation of oil and gas export pipelines from the Gjøa field in the North Sea. StatoilHydro is development operator for the field. Saipem will lay a total of 185 kilometres of pipeline for the transport of oil and gas from the Gjøa and Vega fields.
A former Royal Navy ship is destined for a scrapyard in Belgium where some of it may be recycled. The 44-year-old HMS Fearless is to be scrapped five years after it was officially mothballed in Portsmouth, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
