Shop stewards at the Helsinki, Turku and Rauma yards and the Piikki
Overnight the initial course was a medium air reach, with boat speeds in the heady heights of 16 knots on occasion. The wind was comfortably on the beam and the boats were using their big gear
Having experienced a light patch yesterday evening the Volvo Ocean Race fleet was back on track again late last night when the wind returned reaching 11kts at times. Despite the erratic winds the fleet, on its final leg to Goteborg, remains fairly close with just five miles between them. Brasil 1 (T
Transport Canada is investigating how a massive cargo ship came to hit a small fishing boat off Newfoundland’s south coast Wednesday. Hedley King, the owner of the fishing vessel Tip Sea, says he is grateful to be alive following a dead-on collision with a 22,000-tonne steel-hulled cargo ship. “I fi
Snorkeling in the balmy waters of Bermuda. Golf. Sun. Oh, it was going to be a lovely cruise. At least that’s what many people expected when they boarded a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship in Bayonne on July 24, 2005. Instead, their ship wound up on a rainy, cold, cloud-filled voyage to New Brunswick and
A Taiwan-based shipping line has started service to the Port of Portland, providing another boost to the port that struggled after two of its three major container carriers pulled out in 2004. Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. began its Portland service Thursday, one month after carrier ZIM Integrate
State-run Shipping Corporation of India Ltd plans to spend Rs 63 billion ($1.4 billion) to buy 35 vessels in 2006/07 as it focuses on energy transportation for growth, its chairman said. The company, India’s largest shipping firm, owns a fleet of 82 ships, mostly bulk carriers and tankers and plans
China’s largest offshore oil producer, CNOOC Ltd, confirmed Friday the discovery of a large deepwater gas field made in partnership with Canada’s Husky Energy. Calgary-based Husky said Wednesday the field may contain 4 trillion to 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. An official with CNOOC in Hong
A massive discovery of natural gas in the South China Sea is just the start of Husky Energy Inc.’s offshore exploration ambitions in the region — but first the company will have to secure drilling rigs. The company said late Wednesday it has discovered a large reservoir of natural gas in the deep wa
Modern U.S. Navy Amphibious Assault Ships project power and maintain presence by serving as the cornerstone of the Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG) / Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG). A key element of the Seapower 21 doctrine pillars of Sea Strike and Sea Basing, these ships transport, launch, and l
Admiralty Shipyard launches the “Tavrichesky Bridge” product tanker built to to the order of Sovcomflot JS
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. in Korea has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for delivery of a new drilling rig equipment package to Eastern Drilling’s West E-Drill project. The contract value is approximately NOK 700 million. The project will start immediately at Aker Kvaerner’s subsidiary Aker
The United States welcomes a June 14 announcement by Ryoichi Kabaya, mayor of Yokosuka, Japan, that he has accepted the planned deployment to Japan of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to U.S. Ambassador to Japan J. Thomas Schieffer. Kabaya previously had expressed concerns about the saf
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