Yesterday Paul Allens megayacht, the Octopus, pulled into the Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal along the Huangpu River.
WORLD renowned super-yacht designer Ken Freivokh is to move his Hampshire studio to the banks of the River Hamble. The multi-award winning firm behind the 88 metre Maltese Falcon, the world’s largest privately owned sailing yacht, is to move to a purpose-built studio at Sarisbury Green’s Universal M
Guernsey’s cruise ship season begins on Friday with the first of 70 liners docking in the island’s waters. The Boudicca, which is arriving from Oporto, Portugal, will mark the start of the season.
A five-strong Swiss crew have sailed into history by completing the first solar-powered transatlantic crossing. The Sun21 catamaran arrived in Miami late on Thursday, 117 days after leaving Seville in southern Spain.
Britain and Iran have released conflicting accounts of the location where 15 sailors and Marines were detained by Iranian forces on 23 March.
We are pleased to announce that Vroon Offshore Services has taken delivery of MV Supply Express, an advanced Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). The new vessel was delivered by Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard Co., Ltd in China. MV Supply Express has left the yard and is currently en route to the North Sea. Aft
PUMA, the global sports lifestyle company, has become an exciting addition to the entry list for the 2008-09 event. Known as the PUMA Racing Team, the syndicate will be headed by Ken Read (USA, pictured). PUMA becomes the third confirmed entry. To date the others are from Ericsson Racing Team and th
During a grand opening in Hawaii; the U.S. Navy unveiled their new full mission Polaris ship’s bridge simulator. This simulator installation located in Pearl Harbor is number three in a row of seven large KONGSBERG bridge simulator complexes on delivery to the U.S. Navy.
Talks have begun to resolve a dispute at the French port of Marseille which is threatening to choke off fuel supplies in the country.
A major meeting is to be held on controversial plans for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Forth of Forth.
Smit Internationale N.V. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Adsteam’s Liverpool towage operation.
Britain’s naval defence industry is at the threshold of its biggest changes for decades. The industry is set to receive the go-ahead from the government for two 65,000 tonne aircraft carriers worth more than £3bn – the largest warships ever built in the UK. This follows orders for destroyers and Ast
South Korean shipbuilders were found to have more than doubled their workers’ manufacturing efficiency over the past 15 years while their revenue grew 19 times. The average man-hour needed for building one compensated gross ton (CGT) of vessels at three major shipbuilders _ Hyundai Heavy Industries,
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling solutions has signed an agreement to acquire Plimsoll Corporation Pte Ltd. Plimsoll is based in Singapore and is a leading company in deck machinery for the offshore oil and gas, and marine industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Cargot
