The Ha Long Shipyard in northeastern Quang Ninh province has signed a contract to build a 54,000-tonne cargo ship for Vinashin Lines, a forwarding company owned by the Vinashin Group. The vessel, designed by the Science and Technology Institute of the Shipbuilding Industry, will be the largest cargo
Favorite Alaska cruise itineraries continue in 2007 with Holland America Line. Three Vista-class ships Oosterdam, Zuiderdam, and new to Alaska, Noordam offer more suites than ever before. Each Vista-class ship features 162 suites in seven categories, plus 461 (479 on the Noordam) Deluxe Outside Vera
It’s definite! Both Norwegian Crown and Norwegian Wind will retire in 2007. Norwegian Crown, which you may recall served originally with Royal Cruise Lines, moved to NCL and then was switched to the line’s sister company — Orient Lines — as Crown Odyssey, currently handles the seven night New York t
Sea NG Corporation (www.coselle.com) announced today that the American Bureau of Shipping (
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Greek passenger shipper Minoan Lines said that it has agreed to sell a vessel to Italys Moby SPA for 90 mln eur, and will book a capital gain of 11.3 mln eur.
CRN, Custom Line, Riva and Pershing are representing the Ferretti Group at the exclusive yacht show in Monaco. Montecarlo, 20th September 2006
Anyone who has experienced at first hand the sheer speed of the Volvo Open 70 will be delighted to learn that the official Rule for 2008-09 has been framed to safeguard the status of the world
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Salvage efforts began Monday night to free a freighter lodged in a reef off Fort Lauderdale since Thursday. So how do you move a 34,589-ton cargo ship, including a load of 30,000 tons of a cookie-dough-like substance, perched precariously on an environmentally sensitive reef just off the coast of on
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard achieved a landmark milestone in its 10-ship tanker build program on Monday, Sept. 18, when it successfully launched the first vessel in the series from its berth in the yard’s Building Dock. When completed in the fourth quarter of this year, the 600-foot long MT 46 Vetera
A fishing boat has been escorted to harbour after taking on water off the Aberdeenshire coast. The 23-metre Banff-registered Arcana, with five people on board, had been six miles off Macduff.
A consortium comprising Total (50%), Hocol (operator, 20%, subsidiary of Maurel & Prom), and Talisman (30%) has been awarded the exploration rights for the Niscota Block in Colombia. The 623-square-kilometre block is located approximately 180 kilometres northeast of Bogota in the Llanos basin, where
Dubai Maritime City – the world’s largest and the most comprehensive maritime complex in the world – has announced that the construction of dry berths, slide ship transfer pit and other basic site infrastructure have begun. The commencement of civil works for berths and ship transfer area marks one
