Alinghi, the Swiss team built by Ernesto Bertarelli, will start its defence of the America’s Cup on Saturday afternoon. Alinghi faces the Challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand, in the America’s Cup Match on the waters off Valencia, Spain. Racing is scheduled to start with a warning signal at 14:50 l
A cargo ship ran aground in Wester Ross because it was not anchored properly, according to a Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report. The Harvest Caroline had to be towed from rocks after foundering off Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles last October.
A ship that starting listing after heavy seas caused its load to shift has safely anchored near Nelson.
Thirty-eight people died when the side-wheel steamship Gen. Anthony Wayne went down April 27, 1850, north of Vermilion, Ohio. The ship, which according to legend was also carrying millions of dollars in gold coins, was discovered last September, but the find was announced this week by amateur shipwr
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co, the world’s third-largest shipbuilder by sales, said it has obtained a 393.1 bln won order from an unidentified ship owner in Europe to build three very large crude-oil carriers.
The bulk carrier vessel Taharoa Express is battling strong winds and heavy swells as it makes its way to southern Tasman Bay after coming into trouble early this morning.
SALVAGE experts are about to begin the first phase of an operation to refloat the bulk carrier Pasha Bulker stuck fast off a beach at Newcastle on the NSW coast. The 40,000 tonne vessel ran aground on a sandbar off Nobbys Beach during a severe storm on June 8. All going well, she could be […]
Manila – Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has taken over operations at the Syrian port of Tartous (right), after winning the concession in a competitive bidding process.
Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GE Shipping) has announced that Company has signed a contract to buy a 1,47,092 dwt, modern (double hull) Suezmax crude tanker. The 2000 built ship is expected to join the Company’s fleet during the second quarter of FY 2007-08.
HAMBURG (Thomson Financial) – A consortium led by ThyssenKrupp AG’s Marine Systems unit expects to receive an order to construct four new frigates for the German Navy by the beginning of July, a spokeswoman for the unit said.
Major Break-through for Imtech on the Turkish naval market. Rotterdam – Imtech Marine & Offshore has been awarded the contract by Turkish Defence organisation SSM for the delivery of an extensive Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the First of Class of the New Turkish Navy MILGEM Corve
OSLO – The Norwegian state, Sweden’s Saab and the Wallenberg group have acquired 40 per cent of the offshore firm Aker Kvaerner, Economy Minister Dag Terje Andersen said Friday in Oslo. The previous owner of the shares, Kjell Inge Rkke, earned 4.8 billion kroner (806 million dollars) in the deal, An
To get a better idea of the yachting phenomenon, all you have to do is make your way out to the third annual Moscow Yacht Festival, which opened Thursday and runs through the weekend. On either side of the Andreyevsky pedestrian bridge crossing the Moscow River to the south of Gorky Park, several do
Thousands lined the quays to welcome an old lady of the sea yesterday . Tall ship the Earl of Pembroke sailed into King’s Lynn as one of the star attractions of a festival in honour of Norfolk’s greatest explorer.
