Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited (“YRS”) is pleased to announce the successful skidding and floating off of the ‘Yacht Express’ at its yard in Yantai, Shandong, China. The ‘Yacht Express’ weighing 15,000 metric tons is the heaviest vessel to be built on land and skidded onto launching barges in China
The Azimut 39 Evolution, one of the Middle East Premieres that will be presented by ART Marine during the Dubai International Boat Show 2007, has just arrived in Dubai. As announced last week, ART Marine will offer to this Boat Show 3 Middle East Premieres: the Atlantis 50 presented in Cannes in Sep
So the city is pushing for not just more investments in its South Road Properties Special Economic Zone, it is also hoping to optimise Cebu’s beach attractions by setting up a marina. Tomas Osmena, Mayor, Cebu City, says: “We are going to put a mega yacht club for visiting yachts from Singapore and
SHE might be dating its US billionaire owner, but not even supermodel Kristy Hinze could resist making a splash on board Jim Clark’s $100 million super yacht Athena in Newcastle Harbour yesterday. While there was no sign of Clark – who is 36 years older than the 27-year-old Aussie bombshell – Hinze
Coastguards have called off an air-and-sea search for the life raft of a stolen fishing boat, whose wreckage was discovered off Anglesey. An eight-hour search was launched after a radio beacon was picked up from the raft late on Thursday, and it was feared people may have been on board.
Coastguards and anti-pollution teams are on alert after a ship carrying potentially dangerous chemicals was beached off the Devon coast. The MSC Napoli, which was holed in storms on Thursday, was run aground following “serious structural failure”.
Gulf Navigation Holding has set its sights on a capacity expansion of close to 30 per cent in 2007. After the acquisition of six double hulled product tankers at the end of last year, and the successful conclusion of their financing arrangement for the six tankers and two chemical tankers to be buil
ART Marine, a leading Marine Hospitality Company in the Middle East, will have a larger presence than ever at this year’s Boat Show. This follows the huge success in terms of sales and popularity encountered during the Dubai International Boat Show 2006, said company officials.
The beaches of the Gower Peninsula have been damaged by offshore dredging, environmentalists claim — but the Welsh Assembly is refusing to ban the practice. More than 500,000 cubic metres of sand have been taken from Helwick Bank, which lies two miles off the Gower Peninsula, since large-scale dredg
A stricken container ship is sheltering off the Devon coast after it was holed in the English Channel. The London-based MSC Napoli was stranded about 50 miles off the Lizard, Cornwall on Thursday.
Anti-pollution teams are on standby after a massive ship carrying potentially dangerous chemicals beached one mile off the Devon coast. The MSC Napoli, which was holed in the English Channel on Thursday, is carrying 2,394 containers.
The Ferretti Group, one of the leading companies in the world within the sphere of designing and building luxury motor yachts and sporting boats, will be at Boot 2007 with an incredible fleet of 11 motoryachts exhibited at a smart, exclusive new stand. The Ferretti Group will consolidate its leaders
Royal Navy rescuers who saved 26 men from a life-raft after they abandoned their ship have described the conditions they endured as horrific. Crewmembers from the MSC Napoli were rescued by helicopters from RNAS Culdrose after the ship was holed in storms 50 miles (80km) off Cornwall.
At least 60 people are feared drowned after their boat capsized in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Police say more than 80 people were on board the vessel, most of them pilgrims on their way to a religious festival.
