Team Boskalis Heemskerk/Tentij (NED) took the lead after the first three races of the F18 open European Championship. Mourniac/Citeau (FRA) are in second place and Styles/Crawford (GBR) in third of the eighty-boat fleet.
Two children have died and dozens of passengers are missing after a ship disappeared in eastern Indonesia. The boat was travelling from Buru to Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, when its engine failed in rough seas.
On 7 July 2007 LNG carrier “Grand Mereya” building by PRISCO and Japanese companies Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha was set a float. The vessel was undocked and berthed at in Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding Yard in Chiba (Japan).
The port city of Qingdao was today officially confirmed as the China stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race with the signing of an agreement between race organisers and the Qingdao Municipal Government. Qingdao’s selection as the stopover on the marathon ocean race’s new route through the Middle
Canada has announced plans for six naval patrol vessels and a deep-water port in the north to assert its claim to territorial waters in the Arctic. Other countries, including the US, say the waters are international territory.
Damen will again deliver a Damen Stan Tug 2208 to Trinidad & Tobago in 2008. In June Allan R. Singh Contractors signed a contract for a Damen Stan Tug 2208 to be delivered in spring 2008.
On Thursday 5th of July 2007, the Damen Multi Purpose Vvessel “Maxima” was handed over to her owners, MS “Yepa” Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Reederei KG, Haren Ems, Germany, a single ship company under management of Intersee Schifffahrtsgesellschaft.
Divers are to examine the damaged hull of container ship MSC Napoli which was refloated nearly six months after its grounding off the south Devon coast. The 62,000-ton vessel floated free a mile off Sidmouth on Monday after 58,000 tons of water was pumped from her holds in a major operation.
Van Oord has been awarded the redesigning of Dubai Promenade in Dubai. The total contract value amounts to EUR 14 million. The client is Nakheel. The execution has already started. The project is scheduled for completion in February 2008.
Aker Yards ASA has purchased 1 000 000 own shares at a price of NOK 75.5048 per share Following the transaction, Aker Yards ASA holds a total of 5 000 000 own shares, representing 4.4 % of the total outstanding number of shares.
On July 6 2007 Rosneft Open Joint Stock Company (Rosneft) and Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) concluded an Agreement on Strategic Cooperation. The agreement was signed in Moscow by Rosneft President Sergey Bogdanchikov and Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer.
A fund run by Goldman Sachs is to take a stake in the parent of the US’s largest port terminal operator in a deal that marks the end of the sector’s nearly complete change in ownership in the US over the past 18 months.
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Takes Delivery of Newbuilding Bunker TankerPurchases Double-Hull Bunker Tanker; Exercises Five Newbuilding Options.
Oceanteam Power & Umbilical ASA announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent with SMD for a technologically advanced Heavy Duty Power Cable & Umbilical Plough. Delivery will be in October 2007. The plough has the capacity to bury umbilical or cable to a depth of 3m in a large range of soils
