The megayacht industry has blossomed over the last ten years, with multi millionaires and billionaires buying yachts in the tens of millions of Euros price range – and when it comes to some billionaires they seem intent on buying a fleet that would put some small countries navies to shame.
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with REM Con AS a subsidiary of REM Offshore ASA for building of two AHTS vessels. The value of the contract is approximately NOK 1.4 billion in total. The vessels are Anchor Handling Supply Vessels, based on the Aker Yards design AH 12. Delivery is scheduled i
At least 22 Haitian migrants died after their boat capsized in shark-infested waters near the Turks and Caicos Islands, the US Coast Guard has said. At least 73 of the 150 people believed to have been on board were rescued, but more than 50 are still missing.
A number of Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in a sea battle off the north-eastern coast. The navy said it sank two Tamil Tiger boats, part of a flotilla of 26 rebel vessels, and killed at least 10 rebels.
A man drowned after he fell from a fishing boat into the sea off Ireland, an inquest on Anglesey has heard. The crew mates of Patrick McCabe, 61, from Dundalk, County Louth, told how they desperately tried to save him on 1 November last year.
A quarter of the world’s oceans will be protected from fishing boats which drag heavy nets across the sea floor, South Pacific nations have agreed. The landmark deal will restrict bottom-trawling, which experts say destroys coral reefs and stirs up clouds of sediment that suffocate marine life.
The world’s largest privately-run hospital ship has set sail on its maiden mission to Africa. More than 400 volunteer medical professionals were onboard when it set off from Blyth, Northumberland, on Thursday morning.
The U.S. East Coast port city of Boston has been formally announced as a stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race. The long-awaited news that Boston will be the only North American stopover for the Volvo Ocean Race was announced at a ceremony to introduce the Boston-based entry, PUMA Racing Team to
When Holland America Line’s ms Zaandam sets sail from Vancouver, B.C., on Earth Day, April 22, it will be unlike any other cruise ship at sea, featuring new cutting edge emission reduction technology recently installed during a two-week drydock. In cooperation with several United States and Canadian
Christensen Shipyards, the foremost builder of high quality certified composite motor yachts completes the sale of hull 036 to Mr. John Rosatti. The 160’ Tri-Deck is th
Rescuers have reached a stricken yacht in the Southern Ocean with two injured Australians aboard and are now staging a delicate operation to transfer them to safety. But the desperate search for a third Australian washed overboard by a massive wave in wild seas has been called off, the South African
Jersey has won the long-running court case against Guernsey’s fishing policy. The argument hinged on a decision by Guernsey to make non-local fishermen apply for licences to fish between the three and 12-mile limits of its waters.
Top spot in the Louis Vuitton Cup is at stake today in Flight 5 of Round Robin Two. BMW ORACLE Racing and Luna Rossa Challenge begin the day equal on points at the top of the table and face each other on the north race course area in Match 2. The winner will be alone […]
Seadrill has today entered into a turnkey contract to build another ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The turnkey contract has a net total project value of US$531.5 million with scheduled delivery of the unit in April 2010. The rig is based on the Fri
