On October 27 Krasnoe Sormovo Shipyard announced that the lead ship of RSD17 project for the Palmali Group successfully passed the sea trials. The 5 dry cargo vessels are being built under the contract signed in 2005.
Police have named the four men missing after a Scottish fishing boat disappeared in the North Sea. Teams searching for the men earlier said they had found a body. The missing men are 49-year-old skipper Martin Gardner, Edward Gardner, 50, and Ian Donald, 55, all from Fife, and Sidney Low, 52, from A
HMS Liverpool has sailed into her home city for a five-day visit – the first in almost a year. The Royal Navy warship is making a return to port after supporting the Queen’s state visit to the Baltic States last week.
Ten Somalis have been found guilty of piracy and hijacking by a court in the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The convicted men, who will be sentenced next week, were arrested earlier this year off the Somali coast. They had maintained they were fisherman and had not held 16 crew members of an Indian ship fo
Two stowaways found on a Japanese car carrier in Port Elizabeth were recovering in hospital on Thursday, said the ship’s agents. “They in hospital at moment,” said ship’s agent Pranesh Oodhrajh. The two survivors and a third dead stowaway were found on the car carrier the Washington Highway on Wedne
On October 26, 2006 the Astrakhan-based Lotos Shipyard incorporated into the group of companies Maritime, Oil and Gas Projects launched the hull of the river-going boxship of “Marina” type.
The high-end yacht market is largely immune to economic cycles and other market idiosyncrasies. The growth in the number of wealthy people — potential buyers — continues to outpace the expansion in production, Smith says. Demand for super yachts is so strong, says Smith, that some wealthy shoppers a
Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell) announced today that it will develop the Great White, Tobago and Silvertip Fields via a Perdido Regional Development host, located in Alaminos Canyon, offshore Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles south of Freeport, TX. Moored in about 8,000 feet of water, the regional
Imtech (technical service provider in Europe) recently fitted the 25th ship with an innovative diesel-electric propulsion system. This new environment-friendly technology allows ships to improve combustion and thus consume less fuel. The result is significantly lower emissions of environmentally har
The race to finish this year’s last new ship launch is nearing an end. Interior construction is ramping up on NCL’s Norwegian Pearl, which was floated out in mid-October at Papenburg, Germany’s Meyer Werft shipyard (the ship left the covered dock for an outfitting pier where all work will be complet
A one-week study tour in early November is expected to show 12 Norwegian companies the best of Vietnam
At a formal ceremony here, Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (II), RasGas (II) announced the naming of a further two long term charter LNG tankers. RasGas (II) celebrated the launch of the ships at a joint naming ceremony in South Korea hosted by the ship builders, Daewoo Shipbuilding
Aker Yards ASA reported an EBITDA of NOK 304 million for the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 7.8 percent compared with the third quarter of 2005. Challenges on three ro-ro container vessels gave a negative result effect in the quarter of approximately NOK 60 million for the business area Merch
Royal Dutch Shell plc released its 3rd quarter results and 3rd quarter interim dividend announcements for 2006 at 07.00 B.S.T. (08.00 C.E.S.T. and 02.00 E.D.T.) on Thursday October 26, 2006. All information relating to the release is available on the website.
