USS New Orleans commissioned, a $1.3B transport ship, took 5 years to build. With the boom of cannons, the Navy commissioned the USS New Orleans before thousands of onlookers Saturday, marking the first time since at least World War II a Navy ship has been built and commissioned in its namesake city
Nakheel is set to announce a series of design changes on the Palm Deira, its third offshore island development in Dubai. The property developer launched an international public tender seeking consultants for the project’s redesign in June last year. The consultancy contract was later awarded to Mala
At MEYER WERFT the keel was laid today of AIDAbella, the second club ship out of a series of 4 for AIDA Cruises. The traditional lucky penny was placed under the first of a total of 55 blocks, which weighs approx. 450 tons, is 32.2 m wide, 6.90 m high and 16 m long. The […]
This year’s Dubai International Boat Show (DIBS) is poised to be bigger and better than last year’s, according to the show’s organisers, the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). This year’s show will be 33 per cent bigger, with 20,000 square metres of net exhibition space, more than 720 exhibitors and m
A united shipbuilding corporation will be established to combine all state financial assets in this sphere, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday. Ivanov, who is also chairman of the board of the United Aircraft Building Corporation, said the decision was made at President Vladimir P
A man has suffered a broken leg and chest injuries after a 50-tonne crane he was driving toppled over onto its side as it was lifting a boat. The incident occurred at a private boatyard in East Street at the Camber docks in Portsmouth on Friday.
A £260,000 project to improve fishing facilities in a North Norfolk village has been given the go-ahead. The work which will include building a new quay at Brancaster and improving the coastal footpath will begin in May.
An army of volunteers has been brought in to help clean-up beaches littered with debris from a grounded container ship off the Devon coast. About 100 people were recruited in advance to assist in the first public-aided operation at Seaton Beach in east Devon.
It boasts seven decks, two helicopter pads and storage space for a submarine. Yet the most significant fact about the secret yacht-building project in Genoa is the price tag – a record-breaking £140 million. Measuring 438 feet long, the 60-strong crew of the world’s most expensive privately-owned ya
Baby boomers are buying into boating despite the stubbornly high dollar. Tim Hunter reports. Aronui, a 21 metre temple of sportfishing luxury, defies anyone to say a bad word about the economy, exports or Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard. Visitors to the Auckland International Boat Show today will
Great success for the fourth edition of “Convergence”, the prestigious training course dedicated to Captains of the Ferretti Group, which this year took place in Naples from February 27th to March 2nd.
TVTB (I love you) is not the prolongation of the recent Valentine’s Day but the name of the new mega-yacht launched by ISA early this week. This marvellous 41,40 metres planing maxi yacht gracefully glided on the water under the yard staff’s eyes, with a simple but traditional ceremony.
The Penglai Bohai Shipyard Company Co., Ltd. and Damen Shipyards Gorinchem have signed a 5 year Business Cooperation Agreement for the construction of the top end of the range of Damen standard tug boats and in particular the larger Azimuth Stern Drive tug designs.
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), has delivered PV DRILLING I, a KFELS B class jackup rig to PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services Joint Stock Company. The project, which was signed on 22 February 2005 was delivered to it
