Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) announced today that one of its new vessels, the M/V PAT TAYLOR, named in honor of the late New Orleans businessman, Patrick F. Taylor, will be christened on Monday, August 21, 2006, at the wharf of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Mrs. Phyllis M. Taylor, wife of Pat Tayl
Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won two large contracts in Russia. In St. Petersburg Boskalis will dredge a new access channel from the sea. In Varandey Boskalis is involved in the construction of two oil pipelines of 20 kilometers each in the Barents Sea.
Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, Inc. (LRQA), a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group, has awarded ISO 14001 certification to Holland America Line and Windstar Cruises at a ceremony in Seattle, Washington. ISO 14001 is the international standard for Environmental Management Systems, reflecting glo
Tehran, Aug 19, IRNA-Iran’s Offshore Oil Company exports 18-20 million barrels of crude oil per month. A report released by the international department of Iran’s ffshore Oil Company quoting the company’s export and import manager, Mahmoud Baharvand, said that its current daily production of crude o
Two fishermen, adrift in a life raft for three hours off the west coast of the South Island, were flown by rescue helicopter to Hokitika. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre says the two men made a distress call at about 1am Saturday morning, saying their fishing boat, the Challenger Two, was adrift and
Sri Lanka Air force fighters destroyed a boat manufacturing yard of the LTTE terrorists this evening (Friday the 18th of August) by aerial bombardment. The Media Center for national Security says the boat yard located at Thalayadi in Campianpaththuwa area has been destroyed and many terrorists were
Debates over the asbestos-covered ship known as
The Queensland Opposition has slammed Premier Peter Beattie’s latest campaign pledge not to build a cruise ship terminal on the spit at the Gold Coast. It says Queenslanders cannot trust anything Peter Beattie says. Nationals MP Jeff Seeney says today’s announcement is nothing but a “con” because th
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) , today delivered a fourth and final double-hulled oil tanker, the “Alaskan Legend,” to BP Shipping Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary and ship operating division of BP p.l.c. (ADR: BP). The “Alaskan Legend” will depart S
A group dedicated to finding and documenting shipwrecks in Michigans waters said Friday it found the well-preserved remains of the historic vessel Hennepin and two other ships at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The 208-foot-long Hennepin was a steamer built in Milwaukee in 1888. It was later transforme
De Valk International reports that the 55 metre steel displacement megayacht Sir Arthur J has been sold by yacht broker Robert G. Drontmann. Built in 1968, by J & K Smit of the Netherlands, as a commercial vessel, the Sir Athur J was converted to a large luxury motoryacht, between 2001 and 2003. The
The Marine Industries Association is running a seminar next Tuesday to focus exporters’ attention on opportunities opening up in Taiwan, now recognised as holding the number three spot in the world for superyacht construction. Speakers include Richard Downs-Honey (High Modulus) who will talk on prov
The HSS fast-ferry sailing between Northern Ireland and Scotland has had to return to Belfast because of a medical emergency. A passenger took ill on the 1220 BST sailing on Friday. A doctor on board the ship advised the captain that the patient needed to get off the vessel as quickly as possible.
VERY little progress was made yesterday in dislodging the stranded fishing vessel Kolmanskop from the rocky perch on which it came to rest early Wednesday morning. Strong winds ripped the fishing vessel from its mooring buoy inside the Walvis Bay port limits on Tuesday night, after which it drifted
