The $51-million MV Sonia smoothly sailed into Esquimalt Harbour from Greece yesterday — her clean modern lines and $9-million worth of refit work bringing a broad smile to the faces of Victoria shipyard workers.
Carnival Corp. has ordered its largest ship yet for its Carnival Cruise Lines’ “Fun Ship” brand. The Miami-based cruise giant said Monday it had exercised an option for a new 130,000-ton ship. The cruise line’s biggest ship to date is 110,000 tons. The new vessel, scheduled for delivery in summer 20
An extensive search in the North Sea was called off yesterday after an engineer thought to have fallen overboard was found lying injured behind a bulkhead. The owners of the dive support vessel DSND Pelican had given up hope of finding Christopher McGonigle, 35, alive after he disappeared 140 miles
Vietnamese state-owned shipyard Vinashin has clinched a US$110 million order for a floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit for an affiliate of state giant PetroVietnam. Under an agreement signed Monday between Vinashin and Petroleum Technical Service Company (PTSC), FSO-05 will be designed to hav
Second order contracted for the new slipway of IHC Holland Merwede. Helix Energy Solutions orders new Well Intervention / Diving Support vessel with IHC Holland Merwede BV
Luxury performance boat manufacturer Fearless Yachts has established an exclusive collaboration with internationally renowned Porsche Design Studio / Austria, to build an unparalleled new collection of high speed, custom luxury boats and yachts sized from 28 to 150 feet in length.
Rescuers fear at least 100 suspected African migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off Senegal. The boat set out in early December with as many as 124 people on board, thought to be headed for the Canary Island, but it ran aground in bad weather.
EU officials have tabled a compromise at talks to set fish quotas for 2007, which would cut cod catches by 25% but reduce days at sea by only 20%. Scottish fishermen’s leader Bertie Armstrong said the idea was “still worrying”, but added that the negotiations were at an early stage.
The 2nd giant goliath crane which had been established at the Neutae area, started going into operation from the 15th of December. It performed its first mission, lifting the block of H.1157. Its maximum lifting capacity is 900tons, with a hoisting height of 72m and a rail span of 148m.
The new book on Wally is part of the Mondadori Electa series dedicated to the most important products and brands in the history of Italian design. The book covers all the aspects and products that have made Wally a reference brand inside and outside the yachting industry for design, innovation and t
Fugro has won two new contracts for offshore investigations in China and Brazil.
Total announces the start-up of commercial gas production of the Shah Deniz gas condensate development project located in the Azerbaijan area of the Caspian Sea, approximately 70 kilometres south of Baku. Discovered in 1999, the field is lying in water depths ranging from 50 metres in the northweste
Jan De Nul Group, world leader in dredging and reclamation works, has placed an order with Damen for a total of three workboats. Two of them are of the Damen Fast Crew Supplier 1605 type designed for the transportation of 20 persons on board at speeds of 30 knots. The third vessel is the first [&hel
The vessel will be delivered by Aker Yards, Aukra in June 2009. This Construction Vessel is of Aker Yards design, called Aker OSCV 03 and is the second vessel of this design under construction for DOF. The vessel is 120 meters long and will be equipped with a large offshore crane. It will have DP [&
