They say U.S. plan to screen port workers is redundant and costly. A federal plan to screen port workers could drive up the cost of building and repairing Navy ships while doing nothing to improve security, industry officials say.
A high-speed catamaran from a scuttled Rochester, N.Y.-Toronto ferry service is at the Halifax Shipyard for unspecified work. The Spirit of Ontario I operated for just two seasons on Lake Ontario before Rochester’s new mayor, Robert Duffy, pulled the plug on the service.
Mid-evening on New Year’s Eve saw the diminutive form of David Kent’s Gillawa finally cross the finish line, the last arrival in the 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobart race. Despite this being the third year in a row that Kent’s 32ft Cavalier 975 has taken the wooden spoon (for last boat in) in the annual Box
The 2,200 TEU capacity ship is the first of six container ships to call at Ashdod on regular basis on three monthly calls as from January 2007 M/V YM Ocean, voy.647W, call last week the Israeli port of Ashdod after several years during which no Yang Ming ships called Israeli ports.
The 45th Annual Atlanta Boat Show will shine the spotlight on boating’s latest products and marine technology when it sails into Atlanta Jan. 10-14 at the Georgia World Congress Center. >From new powerboats, sailboats and yachts to the world’s only boat lift specifically designed for the marine envi
On Dec. 28, 2006, the U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $50.7 million contract to perform routine maintenance and modernization work on the USS Albany (SSN-753), a Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
TUBAN, Indonesia – At least 200 people survived the sinking of an Indonesian ferry, the health ministry said on Monday, even as body bags were being prepared for victims and more than 400 remained unaccounted for. Although confirmed deaths were in single digits, officials said corpses from the disas
The Evergreen Group will establish its own liner agency company, Evergreen Shipping Spain, S.L. (EES), in Valencia, Spain, with a branch office in Barcelona.
An Olympian, triple world champion in the 505 and 49er dinghy classes, two-time Australian 18-foot Skiff Grand Prix Champion, and a two-time Volvo Ocean Race competitor, Chris Nicholson is one of the world’s most valued offshore racing sailors. Incredibly though, his first-ever ocean racing experien
The scene was in a centuries-old, typically English pub that, to this day, nestles right on the waterfront in Old Portsmouth in the UK. It was 1971, and among the crowd enjoying the warm ambiance of the heavily timbered, smoke-filled bar were Colonel Bill Whitbread, of the famous brewing family, and
Indonesian rescue teams searching for those missing after a ferry sinking off Java say they have found scores of survivors in lifeboats. Naval officers flying over the area say they have seen at least 10 lifeboats with survivors on board but that stormy weather has prevented their rescue.
It’s the season for superyachts. The sumptuous, $146 million yacht Boadicea, reportedly owned by Australian television game show producer Reg Grundy, was yesterday sitting grandly in Omaha Bay, near Wellsford. Meanwhile, a more modest $21m America’s Cup party yacht owned by entrepreneur Eric Watson
At least 500 people are feared to have drowned after a ferry travelling between the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Java sank during a storm. Rescue efforts have been hampered by choppy seas and high winds.
Attempts were due to be made to help a rig support vessel which lost power and was drifting 100 miles east of the coast of Aberdeen.
