Areva Challenge has made some changes to the afterguard of its race boat following Louis Vuitton Act 12. The French team says that Thierry Peponnet will no longer be skipper and helmsman but will remain with the team. His new role is still to be defined.
The Board of Directors of SembCorp Marine Ltd (the
The Maltese Falcon has left the Yildiz shipyards in Turkey on the 1st of July, and is now sailing towards La Spezia via Malta (in the pictures, MF sailing through the Bosphorus, and leaving La Valletta port). The owner declared: “We picked the departure date of July 1st to leave the yard, and during
Lurssen’s Apoise (formerly known as project Marlin). The 67-meter (around 220 feet) yacht has been delivered to her owner. She was designed by Espen Oeino to offer a lot of space without an ungainly length. There are six decks with four guest cabins with king size beds on the lower deck and the main
FOLLOWING the failure of A.P. Moller to decongest ports and bring about a seamless port operation, a group of six shipping companies have formed a consortium with a view to breaking the monopoly of A .P. Moller at the container terminal port . The group, which is made up of Alraine Nigeria Limited,
Port of Miami-Dade executives hope their plan to dredge the port’s main entrance to 52 feet is one step closer to reality after the U.S. Senate last week earmarked $500,000 for the project. Though the dredging’s total cost is $157 million, port officials believe the Senate’s actions show the project
Rolls-Royce has won its largest contract for a single offshore vessel, which will also be the world
THE government yesterday paved the way for the eventual development of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, 20 miles off the Scottish coast. Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister, gave the green light to plans to build two giant wind turbines in the Beatrice Field in the Moray Firth in the first sta
Delivery Damen Double Hull Oil Tanker, yardnumber 9379, mts. ‘Solway’. Damen Shipyards Bergum delivered mts. ‘Solway Fisher’ on Friday 30-06-2006 to her principal James Fisher Shipping Ltd, England. The delivery took place at the Damen Yard, Galati, Romania.
HEALTH inspectors will rip up carpets and furnishings in a ship on which 100 people were struck down with a vomiting bug last weekend, the third such outbreak on the boat. The Black Prince returned to Leith, Edinburgh, early yesterday after about 100 of its 393 passengers fell ill with a stomach bug
TWO navy patrol boats, to be named Glenelg and Maryborough will be built at Fremantle and then based at Dampier to protect the North West shelf. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said today that the boats will be built at Austal’s Henderson shipyard near Fremantle by Austal and the Defence Maritime Se
Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE:TOD) announced today that the U.S. Navy has awarded to its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation (“Todd Pacific”), a delivery order under its Multiple Award Contract in the amount of $5,180,291 for the in-drydock repairs and preservation of Cais
GROTON, Conn., July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — General Dynamics Electric Boat has won a $20 million, 18-month contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue development of shaftless propulsion technology for submarines. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of G
The South Australian Government has approved another $115 million to expand the Osborne shipbuilding site in Adelaide. South Australian Premier Mike Rann says he met with the state’s defence industry advisory board chairman, General Peter Cosgrove, yesterday to brief him on the Techport Australia ex
