Special ceremonies at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard near Venice will be held today (Monday, January 15) to mark the float out of Cunard’s newest Queen, ocean liner Queen Victoria. During the float out, the valves will be opened and the dry-dock flooded for the ship to meet the sea for the first ti
Korean shipbuilders are forecast to enjoy an 18-percent increase in exports this year because of strong demand for high-priced ships and other products. The Korea Shipbuilders’ Association predicted Monday that local shipbuilders will log $26 billion in exports in 2007, up 18 percent from an estimat
A severe storm that battered southern Scandinavia yesterday may have helped disperse some of the thick fuel oil that leaked from a Cyprus-registered freighter that ran aground off western Norway and broke up late on Friday, officials said. Captain Erik Blom said a survey of the area indicated that o
In line with the strategy decided by the Board, Frontline Ltd. (“Frontline” or the “Company”) is currently in the process of establishing a separate entity to develop the Company’s heavy lift activity. Such a company will include up to six single hull Suezmax vessels. Five of these vessels are on lo
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has made an agreement to acquire Tagros d.o.o. a Slovenia-based service company. Tagros provides maintenance of container handling equipment and industrial forklifts at the Port of Koper in Slovenia.
The Vindu, a 4,500-ton cargo ship once adrift in the North Sea during a heavy storm, was safely towed to port Sunday in the British city of Hull. The BBC said that since the ship had reported engine failure Thursday during a heavy storm, it had begun to drift dangerously near a pair of gas […
Statoil has signed frame agreements for sidetrack operations and undesirable objects recovery from wells (fishing) on Statoil-operated Norwegian continental shelf licences. The deals have been signed with Baker Hughes Norge AS, Weatherford Norge AS and supplier-of-choice, Smith International Norway
Stormy weather continued on Monday to obstruct efforts to contain oil spilled from a cargo ship that grounded Friday evening just north of Bergen.
A Peterhead-based fishing boat has run aground near the St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire. A local lifeboat and several fishing vessels had failed to manage to tow the Rosemount off the sandy beach at Rattray Head.
The Navy issued a stop work order Jan. 12 to Lockheed Martin Corp. Maritime Systems & Sensors unit, Moorestown, N.J., for the construction of the third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). This stop work order will take effect immediately and is for a period of 90 days. The stop work order was issued because
The offshore oil drilling ship stationed in the Indian Ocean off Lamu, MV Chyuku is safe from the spill over of violence in neighbouring Somalia. The assurance was made by Woodside Energy Kenya General Manager, Mr Alex Taylor. “Everything is fine, and work is going on,” Taylor told The Standard on t
The multi-million pound refit of a Devonport-based ship is nearing completion in Cornwall. The 28,000 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Argus has spent the past three months in A&P Falmouth’s dry dock.
According to Regnum informed, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has ordered the biggest yacht in the world that is being constructed at a wharf in Gamburg. The yacht is expected to surpass the length of 170 m Dubai Yacht owned by Dubai Emirate leader.
A cargo ship which had been adrift in the North Sea in a Force 10 storm, narrowly missing two gas platforms, has docked safely. The Vindo reached Alexandra Docks in Hull around 0245 GMT on Sunday – pulled by a rescue tug, which had been towing the vessel for 42 hours.
