Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) today announced that Robert L. Long, Chief Executive Officer of the company, will address attendees at the Howard Weil Energy Conference in New Orleans, LA. Mr. Long is scheduled to present on Monday, April 2, 2007, at 9:30 a.m., CT.
South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries Co. has won its first orders to build oil tankers at its new shipyard in the Philippines, company sources said today, a deal worth an estimated US0 million.
Iran has said its considering charging the 15 British sailors with illegally entering its waters. Prime Minister Tony Blair denied the navy personnel had been in Iranian waters and implied that Tehran should know that Britain has taken the detention seriously.
A couple who plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico from a balcony of their cruise ship early Sunday will be aboard today when the vessel arrives at its first port of call.
UK defence firms BAE Systems and and VT Group are to create the UK’s biggest shipbuilder through a joint venture which is likely to carry out the bulk of a 3.8 bln stg government contract to build two aircraft carriers, the Sunday Times reported without citing sources.
NYK has reached an agreement with Namura Shipbuilding Co. to order two 250,000-ton ore carriers, referred to as WOZMAX ore carriers.
Twenty boats have now finished the Audi Sydney Southport Yacht Race with all but one of the remaining 14 at sea due to cross in quick succession before 7.30pm tonight thanks to the cool and gusty 30-35 knot sou’easter which is currently blasting onto the south east Queensland coastline.
Transas equipped seven United Arab Emirates coastline outposts with Navi-Monitor Coastal Surveillance Systems which is intended to provide higher waterside security. Transas in partnership with Elcome International LLC received the order to supply a radar based Navi-Monitor Coastal Surveillance Syst
TOKYO – Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced that the solar power generation system at Ohi Container Terminal Berth No.4 started operation in March. The system is called the Tokyo International Container Terminal Solar Power Station.
Commissioned by a passionate and experienced yachtsman, the new Wally 100.2 is a further development of the 100 footer Y3K that will be launched in the next few days. She combines the lines of German Frers with the styling and interiors of Wally.
Royal Navy personnel seized at gunpoint by Iran in the Gulf have admitted being in the country’s waters, an Iranian general has claimed.
Fishermen in the South West have voiced concerns about a proposed bylaw for certain inshore vessels. Cornwall County Council’s sea fisheries committee has proposed a ban on any more boats that drag two or more nets.
On a bright June day last year, the 62-passenger Sea Bird glided through a narrow passage on the eastern fringe of the Inside Passage and anchored in an isolated inlet. There, far from the main channel, in a quiet corner of Alaska’s northern wilderness, six of the ship’s passengers climbed into an i
The largest private sailing yacht in the world is currently in downtown Auckland, its masts towering over the Princes Wharf apartments it is docked alongside. Named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena is the pleasure craft of United States computer software billionaire Jim Clark.
