Saint Tropez – Two Wallys participated this year in the Giraglia Rolex Cup inshore races, Magic Carpet Squared and K2Wind, and both of them competed in the IRC Class with the super maxis like Alfa Romeo and the new Wild Oats XI.
Davie Québec is delighted to announce that Cecon ASA (pronounced “seacon”) of Norway has confirmed its intention to exercise a shipbuilding option worth US $145.3 million, providing the Lévis shipyard with another major contract—its third in less than four months.
Russian and Norwegian interests meet in the far north and the Arctic. The new StatoilHydro company has big ambitions in this part of the world, chief executive Helge Lund told the St Petersburg Economic Forum this weekend.
The great Trans Tasman rivalry between Australian supermaxi Wild Oats XI and her near sistership Alfa Romeo, from New Zealand, has resumed, this time at the Giraglia Rolex Cup off St Tropez, and it was first blood to the kiwis by the narrowest of margins.
Bharati Shipyard said on Monday that it bagged orders worth USD 65.10 million (approx. Rs 2,600 million) from Norwegian Offshore Shipping of Norway for supply of two 150 tons bollard pull anchor handling, tug and supply vessel with the company.
First though, plans to refloat the 40,000-tonne bulk carrier stranded on a reef just off Newcastle’s Nobby’s Beach, have come unstuck. Salvage crews have found the Panama-registered Pasha Bulker has an outer hull breach, and is taking on water. The massive vessel ran aground in gale force winds and
Aker Kvaerner and SKF have established a partnership for Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Condition Based Maintenance reduces plant downtime, increases equipment reliability and reduces maintenance by means of optimised maintenance and inspection p
Unit 4 Agresso NV said it has won a contract worth an undisclosed amount from Dutch dredging company Van Oord. Van Oord will set up a control center to rollout the systems in all the 23 countries it is active in.
Singapore may soon have to surrender its title, achieved five times, as the world’s busiest container terminal. According to Wang Qingwei, the board secretary of Shanghai International Port Group, Shanghai port is gaining fast on its competitor, and ‘is likely to overtake Singapore next year’.
Mumbai Port hopes to regain its stature as a major Indian container port with the government giving the go-ahead to the long-delayed US$293 million offshore container project.
Yrjö Julin (49) has been appointed President & CEO of Aker Yards. He succeeds Karl Erik Kjelstad who has served as Aker Yards CEO since January 2003. Kjelstad will leave Aker Yards to join the executive management team of Aker ASA.
Hoang Dat 36 was lifted to the water surface last Saturday, 25 days after it sank in a collision with a foreign-flagged ship in HCMC’s Nha Be River in mid-May. Staff of the Vietnam Salvage Corporation (Visal) succeeded in bringing the wrecked ship to the water surface after the accident killed half
Scotland’s new fisheries minister has travelled to Luxembourg for talks on fish quotas with European ministers. Richard Lochhead has pledged to “energetically” fight the Scottish fishing industry’s corner.
HUB Line, one of the fastest-growing intra-Asia specialists, has selected the newly-opened Sepangar Bay Container Terminal at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah as a hub port from which it will link its services to a network of several ports in the region.
