A former car ferry used by the Queen on a cruise of the Western Isles is one of three passenger ships to stop off at Invergordon on Thursday. The visits of the Hebridean Princess, Golden Princess and Vistamar will give the Cromarty Firth port its busiest day of its cruise liner season. Passengers in
After 1800 miles and 7days, 4hours, 29m and 4s at sea, Artemis Ocean Racing established a new monohull record for the fastest time round Britain and Ireland last night. The Owen Clarke designed Open 60 crossed the Cowes finish line of RORC’s Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race at 22:29:40s BST,
The Japanese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday filed a protest to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo over the detention by Russian coast guards of a Japanese fishing schooner near the South Kuriles and wounding one of the crewmembers who has died, according to Japanese media reports. However, the Russian Emba
Russian coast guards on Wednesday detained a Japanese speed vessel having the board number 123-174 after warning shots. They found a killed person on board, the public relations group of the Sakhalin coast guard department of Russia’s border guard service. The department said the vessel was stopped
A controversial asbestos-lined former ocean liner, The Blue Lady, has docked in the western Indian port of Alang in Gujarat State to be scrapped. Port officer Anil Rathore told Press Trust of India that the ship known in its glory days as the SS France would be broken in a month’s time. Indian Supre
A U.S. cruise ship’s engine propeller struck the sea floor while docking Wednesday in the Bahamas, spilling oil and damaging the vessel, the cruise company said. The Celebration was forced to abandon its planned stop in Nassau and return to its homeport in Jacksonville, Florida, a Carnival Cruise Li
A major shipbuilding contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars could be heading to Whangarei. The Whangarei District Council will meet behind closed doors tomorrow to discuss an offer from Culham Engineering to buy a block of ratepayer-owned land at the end of Fraser St, in the port area, known
VietNamNet Bridge – The Pha Rung Shipyard in the northern port city of Hai Phong on August 15 began work on its largest-ever cargo ship of 34,000 DWT and an oil tanker of 6,500 DWT. As part of Pha Rung’s contract to build 8 cargo ships for Graig Invetments of the UK, the 34,000 DWT […]
Coastal Contracts Bhd will focus on building oil and gas (O&G) logistics vessels to capitalise on the current high crude oil prices and increase in O&G exploration as well as production activities. Executive chairman Ng Chin Heng told StarBiz that the company was currently working to secure the supp
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The world’s first nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship made its way to a Norfolk shipyard be cleaned and painted as a step toward making the ship a museum. The Savannah was towed this morning from the James River “Ghost Fleet” off Fort Eustis to the Colonna Shipyard. The shipyard won a nearly on
Forty-one oil/gas blocks in Indonesia are offered to investors in 2006, according to Lulu Sumiarso, director general of oil/gas development in the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry. Twenty oil/gas blocks are offered through tenders and 21 offered directly to investors, he told reporters at the o
Two Norwegian and two Ukrainian oil workers being held hostage in Nigeria were freed on Tuesday as the government promised to crack down on a surge in unrest in Africa’s largest oil producer. About 16 foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in five separate abductions in the past two weeks in the oi
Vripack announces the launch of the Trawler Yacht 120′ Caressa K at the RMK Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul for a Turkish owner. The full services office of Vripack took responsibility for all disciplines of this yacht from styling, naval architecture to the complete engineering. At 37 meter (112 ft), C
