It doesn’t get much better than the conditions off Saint-Tropez today – sailors and photographers live for days such as this, with 25-30 knots of wind, sunny skies and a fleet of the most beautiful sailing yachts in the world. After a week of extremes: too much wind or too little, the competitors we
During the Genoa Boat Show Perini Navi announced its new production plan and introduced the Maltese Falcon, one of the largest sailing yachts in the world. Giancarlo Ragnetti, Perini Navi
The Foreign Office says contact had been made with seven foreign oil workers – including four Britons – taken hostage in Nigeria, as efforts continued today to secure their safe release. Sources in Nigeria have spoken to one of the workers, who reportedly confirmed that he and his colleagues were “O
Stena Bulk USA is hosting the Christening of the new Concordia Maritime P-MAX Vessel, Stena Performance; the fourth of ten in the P-MAX series. Klas Eskilsson, head of Stena Bulk USA welcomed Hans Nor
OJSC Mining Metallurgic Company “Norilsk Nickel” has confirmed its order of container ships for its own fleet, as Fairplay, a weekly about international shipping, reports. Four container ships of high icebreaker class will be made at Aker MTW Werft GmbH shipyard (Warnemunde, Germany). The total frei
THE Qatar Shipping Company (Q Ship) yesterday said it has sold another of its new Aframax tanker to Porlock Maritime Company for $69.5mn (QR253mn). With the sale of its newly built
The 108-foot fishing vessel Sunlight collided late Wednesday night with the 891-foot oil tanker Erik Spirit about 20 nautical miles southeast of Portland Head Light in the northern outbound shipping lane, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Thursday. Lt. Connie Braesch of the Coast Guard in Portland said
VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) reported an output value of over VND9 trillion ($567 million) and revenues of over VND5.6 trillion ($351 million) in the first nine months of 2006. The figures represented year-on-year increases of 40.7 percent and 73.3 per
A company that wants to scrap former US naval vessels on Teesside, is likely to know whether it can go ahead with the controversial project within days. Able UK wants to dismantle up to 13 so-called ghost ships at its facility in Graythorp, Hartlepool. But the plan has been dogged by legal and plann
Yantian international wharf of Shenzhen, a special economic zone in south China’s Guangdong Province, received on Thursday morning the world largest container vessel for the first time. Leaving Shenzhen the same day, Emma Maersk is on its maiden voyage, which will call at 17 harbors in Europe and As
Twenty migrants have drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands, survivors of a boat sinking have told Spanish police. The survivors – seven adults and four children – said they were picked up by a merchant ship after their boat broke up on the high seas before dawn. They said they were then b
Stena Bulk has sold 50 per cent of the tanker Stena Arctica to the Finnish oil company Neste Oil, which will also operate the vessel on a 10-year charter from 1 January, 2007
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is facing a $20 million shortfall in its budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but the loss won’t affect current employment levels, a spokesman for the shipyard said. Deborah White, public affairs officer at the shipyard, said the U.S. Navy will find the means i
The licensing of salmon farms by the Soil Association has led to some within the UK’s organic movement to voice concerns that standards are slipping. A confidential study for the UK’s top organic body highlighted gaps between its principles and the standards it accepted, BBC Newsnight reported. The
