Salthouse, Auckland (New Zealand) will be the shipyard building the new addition to the Mean Machine family. The announcement was made in Hyeres, France. It’s no secret that the Mean Machine team feels at home in various places all over the world, from Holland to Spain to New Zealand… so it’s been n
A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside. The vessel is believed to lie beneath 6ft to 10ft (2m to 3m) of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols, Wirral, where Vikings are known to have settled.
India’s largest dredging project is set to get underway at the Rewas Port, owned by Reliance group. It will surpass the Sethusamudram project in volume. Global bids are scheduled to be called next month for the project, which received environmental clearance in May this year.
An eight-member expert team from Holland-based Svitzer Salvage Company, which arrived here from Singapore on Friday, today succeeded in opening the hatch of the stranded Chinese merchant vessel ‘Chang Le Men’, which had been beached at 16 degrees about 1400 m from Tannirbavi beach.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has won a 775 billion won ($824.8 million) order to build five very large container ships, the South Korean firm said on Monday.
Explorers have discovered a century-old shipwrecked ore carrier that sank mysteriously during a Lake Superior storm less than two months after it was launched. All but one of the Cyprus’ 23 crew members died in the Oct. 11, 1907, disaster. A team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society fou
Disaster officials confirmed over the weekend that diesel oil continues to ooze out of a ship that sank off Romblon three decades ago but clarified that it poses no threat to local residents.
Local state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin has obtained the go-ahead from central Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province to invest in series of industrial parks and urban projects in Cam Ranh Bay. The company will invest in three industrial parks (IPs), including a Cam Ranh IP-township, the South Cam Ranh IP, and
The first offshore race of Sydney’s spring/summer sailing season, Sydney Amateur Sailing Club’s Lion Island Race sailed on Saturday, certainly augers well for the season with a fleet of 33 boats enjoying excellent conditions.
The new ships will be delivered in 2012. The company did not disclose the name of the shipyard that will build the ships Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. announced last week it would buy up to eight new mega container ships for US$170 million each, for a total of US$1.36 billion.
It’s not often one gets the chance to see Neville Crichton’s ultra-modern Reichel-Pugh designed Maxi sloop Alfa Romeo (NZL) take to a starting line alongside Tuiga (MON), the Yacht Club Monaco’s 30 metre 1909 launched Fife sloop, and a fleet of Smeralda 888s, but that was the sight enjoyed by numero
Porto Cervo, Italy – It was a superb racing week in the Sardinian waters with blue sky, warm sunshine and different weather conditions ranging from very light and unstable breeze to steady wind over 20 knots. As usual, the regatta provided beautiful coastal courses among the islands combined with th
Police have named a man who died after a boat overturned on a loch in the far north of Scotland. Steven Storey, 50, was in a vessel with another man which capsized on Thursday afternoon on Loch Watten, located between Wick and Thurso.
The arrival of 17 new terminal tractors and three reach stackers all worth about Ksh 225 million ($3.4 million) has uppede the tempo of the modernisation of the Mombasa port container terminal. The equipment was immediately commissioned by a team of Kenya Ports Authority officials led by managing di
