Med Offshore recently ordered an AHTS 6615 of the Damen Offshore series. This is the second time Med Offshore orders an anchor handling tug supply vessel from Damen, following the AHTS 6114, Med Otto, which was delivered to Med Offshore in September 2006. Med Offshore the Italian shipping company ow
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority has invited foreign port and terminal operators to bid for the operations of the 14-hectare New Container Terminal 2 at Subic Bay Freeport. SBMA administrator Armand Arreza said the agency had scheduled the international bidding in October. The agency will award the
Sydney Amateur Sailing Club this season will again be host to a growing fleet of high performance 30-footers racing on Sydney Harbour, arguably the fastest fleet on the harbour. The coming 2007-2008 season will be the third series for these lightweight flyers that SASC has organised, with the fleet
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for delivery of drilling equipment and system for an ultra deepwater drilling semisubmersible unit. The contract value for Aker Kvaerner is approximately USD 128 million.
David Ross, co-president of Burger Boat Company, will retire during the first quarter of 2008. A news release from the luxury mega-yacht builder states Ross will relinquish his current position on Aug. 31 and serve as a special advisory officer to senior management at the company.
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia entry Loki is provisionally third IRC overall in the Britain’s ocean classic, the Rolex Fastnet Race, after finishing at Plymouth early today, Sydney time. Owned by Stephen Ainsworth and skippered by Cameron Miles, Loki crossed the line in 11th in the fleet, about 43
A SEA captain has described leading a rescue in the South China Sea in which 19 Thai sailors, whose ship sank in heavy seas, were plucked to safety.
The Karnataka Government has honoured the twenty fishermen, who risked their lives to save sailors on-board a sinking cargo ship off Mangalore coast recently.
Hydro and telephone workers join residents and curious onlookers yesterday as the Aurora, a $3-million yacht destined for Barbados, is transported from Kanter Yachts in St. Thomas along Sunset Drive (Highway 4) through the village of Union to Port Stanley, where it will be launched. Crews were kept
Fraser Yachts is very pleased to announce that Geanelle, the 145’ Benetti Vision, has been launched. The owner will take delivery around the Monaco Yacht Show, where she will debut as the latest and greatest launch from the Benetti yard at the Fraser booth.
Divers probing a mysterious shipwreck off the north coast of Wales have traced the origins of a bell from the sunken vessel and discovered a long-lost treasure of Canada’s naval history: a 90-year-old minesweeper built by the fledgling Royal Canadian Navy during the First World War.
The winner of the Fastnet yacht race has crossed the finish line at the Devon port where many of the other boats were forced to retire. Chieftain is an Irish boat, owned and skippered by Ger O’Rourke.
China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd) announced Wednesday that its parent China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has signed two production sharing contracts (PSC) with US-based Newfield Exploration Company. The two contracts are for blocks numbered 22/15 and 16/05, both in
The German Multibrid Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for the procurement and construction of thirteen steel-tripod substructures and piles for Multibrids M5000 offshore windmills. Six of these shall be installed 45 km off the coast of Germany at the German Offshore
