Elan’s flagship cruiser, the 514 Impression, has been nominated for the European Yacht of the Year 2008 award in the over 14m class. Any company would be thrilled to receive just one nomination for this prestigious award, but Elan has received a second accolade.
A fire aboard a ship docked at the Port of Beaumont took away a little time from workers, but left no one injured, said John Roby, public information officer for the port.
Security concerns have led Kate Middleton, Prince William’s on-off girlfriend, to pull out of a Dover to Calais Chinese dragon boat race. Organisers said the security concerns related to media coverage of the event.
Fairmount Marine: Immediatly after discharge of SEADRILL 7 in Malta, GAVEA LIFTER set sail for Brazil. She is again chartered for a dry-docking operation.
Murphy Oil has awarded Fairmount with a 7 months charter for the 200 T BP AHT FAIRMOUNT SHERPA for works on the KIKEH Field offshore Malaysia.
Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), has secured a repeat contract from Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte Ltd (Greatship) to build two platform supply vessels (PSVs).
Seven people who were on board a 26 foot (8m) speed boat which sank after striking an object in the Solent are lucky to be alive, coastguards said. The four men and three women, including two people aged under 18, were on board a vessel which was rescued early on Monday morning.
The first container terminal to go into operation on Maasvlakte 2 will be run by a consortium consisting of Dubai based terminal operator DP World and four of the world’s largest shipping companies.
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded contracts from Russian Admirality Shipyards to supply equipment for two shuttle tankers destined to operte in Arctic waters. The contracts include bow loading systems and complete mooring and emergency towing systems. The total contract value for Aker Kvaerner is appro
AN INVESTIGATION is underway after a cargo ship collided with a gas platform in the North Sea and then sank. The vessel, the Jork, struck the unmanned Viking Echo platform 40 miles north-east of Cromer, Norfolk just before 6pm on Saturday.
Three Iraqis who tried to enter the country by hiding inside a container were caught by crew members of a ship as soon as it entered Malaysian waters. The stowaways, in their 30s, had stolen on board the ship from Egypt and hoped to stay hidden in the container for several weeks while it made [&hell
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has received an order for 30 straddle carriers from Italian Medcenter Container Terminal SpA (MCT). The straddle carriers will be delivered at the end of year 2007 and in the beginning of 2008 to MCT’s terminal in Gioi
On Saturday, Russian firefighters have contained a blaze aboard a Turkish cargo ship just outside the Black Sea port of Sochi. Officials are determining what to do with the badly listing ship, identified as the ‘Boztepe’, which was en route from the Turkish port of Trabon carrying automobiles and fr
The Naming Ceremony for the thirteenth Armidale Class Patrol Boat was held on Saturday, 04 August at the Austal shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. Fourteen patrol boats in total are to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy.
