The ship was due to sail on Tuesday afternoon but P&O delayed the departure time until 11.30pm last night as engineers tried to fix a corroded ventilation duct.
Technip and Subsea 7 have been awarded by Statoil a contract worth approximately €37 million for the development of the Alve field located offshore Norway. The contract covers project management, engineering, procurement, installation, installation support and pre-commissioning of a rigid production
Golden Ocean Group Limited has agreed to sell the vessel ‘M/V Shinyo Brilliance’. The vessel is a Panamax bulker and is one of the long term time charter vessels previously acquired from Louis Dreyfus with an option to purchase attached to the time charter. The vessel will be delivered to the Buyers
SHETLAND Islands Council hopes to save more then £2 million by piggy backing a dredging contract they had originally blocked in the Court of Session. The council’s proposal to link a project to dredge Scalloway harbour with much bigger works planned for Lerwick harbour will go before councillors thi
Moscow Arbitration initiated yesterday bankruptcy of Russia’s biggest carrier in the rivers of Volga and Kama – Volgotanker Volzhsk Oil Steamship. The assets will be hardly sold via a single lot, the analysts speculate, pointing to United Shipbuilding Corp. and Rosneft as potential bidders.
Upon completion of ample tests and engine trials the 93,500 gt cruise ship ‘Norwegian Gem’ will leave the covered building dock of MEYER WERFT on Sunday, 12 August. Undocking of the ship, which is built for the American cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), will start around 7.45 a.m. If weat
Virginia, USA. Transas USA is pleased to announce the supply of a Full Mission Ship Handling simulator to the Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy (formerly Tidewater School of Navigation ) based in Virginia Beach, VA.
With the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race this Sunday, August 12, a fleet of Rolex Fastnet hopefuls has begun assembling in and around The Solent area. Many of the entrants are racing in Skandia Cowes Week, used as a tune-up by some for the 608-nautical mile Rolex Fastnet Race. With the largest fleet
The trend of overhauling and improving key national infrastructure through lengthy concessions to private companies is continuing apace in Africa, with Angola’s Luanda Port the latest to benefit from such a deal.
British adventurer travelling around the world by human power alone is back on European soil after 13 years. Jason Lewis, 39, from Askerswell near Bridport, Dorset, cycled into Istanbul, Turkey, and kayaked across the Bosporus – which separates Asia from Europe.
Fincantieri Selects MSC.Software’s SimEnterprise Solutions to Achieve 50% Gain in Engineering Productivity. SimEnterprise’s Next-generation Simulation and Process Management Technologies Drive Increased Engineering Productivity and Competitive Advantage for the Shipbuilding Industry.
The most advanced warship in the world to date, HMS Daring, has departed from BAE Systems’ shipyard in Scotstoun on her maiden voyage down the River Clyde to begin sea trials off the west coast of Scotland. Launched by HRH the Countess of Wessex in February 2006, HMS Daring is the first of six Darin
Down concrete staircases crumbling with age, past rusted pipes and piles of trash, executives of two ship companies poked around the citys long-abandoned dry docks Monday. To the idea that a ship scrapping operation could bring the rebirth of the waterfront here, they offered a tentative one word an
DeepOcean has received a Letter of Award from Reliance Industries Limited of Mumbai, India for the provision of a Multi-Purpose Subsea Support Vessel and associated services. Contract duration is for a three year fixed term starting December 2007 with a further two, one year options. The three year
