Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban is just on track to beat the monohull record for the 308 nautical mile Brisbane to Gladstone, but at this stage, by less than ten minutes.
A commercial fishing boat has caught what may have been one of the oldest creatures in Alaska – a giant rock-fish thought to be about 100 years old. The 44in (1.1m), 60lb (27kg) female shortraker rock-fish was hauled in by a Seattle-based vessel, trawling for pollack in the Bering Sea last month.
Two races were completed on schedule on Friday as ideal racing conditions returned to Valencia. Both Alinghi and Luna Rossa posted strong results on the day; each earning a pair of top three finishes. The Defender, Alinghi has now won three of five races and consolidated its position at the top of t
SEPARATING the buyers from the gawkers may have been difficult as hundreds of people took off their shoes and powered up their cameras to inspect the sleek decks and flashy interiors of an armada of boats and luxury yachts in Shanghai yesterday.
The use of yachts for corporate events and tourism is growing in the Gulf and it will propel demand for bigger and better luxury vessels, people in the boat industry say. Boat ownership is growing in the UAE and other countries in the region as large-scale waterfront property developments and afflue
TOKYO – Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced a major expansion of the company’s iron ore carrier fleet, with a proposal to launch 44 new vessels. The move is part of MOL’s growth strategies in the new midterm management plan MOL ADVANCE, which began on April 1.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling solutions has received a record number of ship crane orders in January–March 2007 from various ship yards in China, Korea, Poland, Romania and Croatia. The ship cranes will be delivered during 2007–2010. The value of the orders recei
Somali pirates who hijacked an Indian-flagged cargo ship as it was preparing to dock at Mogadishu port early this week are demanding a ransom of 20,000 U.S. dollars before releasing the freighter.
Northrop Grumman Newport News said this week that it would christen the North Carolina – the fourth submarine in the Virginia class of nuclear-powered submersibles – in a shipyard ceremony April 21.
Damen has delivered the first new Sea Buses to Istanbul in March 2007. The fast ferries were built under a contract with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) for delivery of 5 units in total. Following sea trials and technical acceptance at Damen’s yard in Singapore, the first 2 ferries were shi
MUMBAI: After six months delay, three short-listed international dredging giants —Boskalis and Van Oord BV, from the Netherlands, and Dredging International from Belgium — have finally received the security clearance to bid for the mega Mumbai-JNPT channel dredging project.
WASHINGTON – The industry and the military share responsibility for cost increases that have turned shipbuilding into a volatile political issue, experts said Wednesday, suggesting both work harder to solve the problem.
Denmark. Transas Denmark wins delivery order for Royal Arctic Line. The shipowning company has officially announced that they have chosen Transas to supply SVDRs for their 4 vessels: Naja Arctica, Nuka Arctica, Irena Arctica and Arina Arctica.
Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), the world’s only float-on/float-off yacht transport service, is partnering with the International SeaKeepers Society to outfit DYT’s new super ship, the 686-foot (209 meter) Yacht Express, with the organization’s innovative SeaKeeper 1000TM ocean and meteorological mo
