WASHINGTON –Connecticut and Rhode Island lawmakers are seeking an additional $400 million for submarine funding in a new defense authorization bill that could help the Electric Boat shipyard, which is struggling with job losses. The funding was included in a spending proposal approved by a U.S. Hous
Another city, a different stretch of water, same result? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is that this will not be a walk in the park for ABN AMRO ONE. Is this possible? Will the team who has dropped just four points to date and holds 22 points over their second placed rivals, movistar, realistical
Spectators at Baltimore
Sometimes timing can be everything. Forecasts up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States are warning of near gale force winds and huge seas developing over the weekend as a late season nor
Kongsberg Norcontrol IT will deliver a new VTMIS (Vessel Traffic Management and Information System) with Traffic Separation Schemes for the Canary Islands to Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Mar
The U.S. Navy has added $13 million to American Superconductor Corp.’s $70 million contract to design a 36.5 megawatt motor for a new class of warship. American Superconductor is designing the motors with high-temperature superconductors, ceramic composites cooled to extremely low temperatures that
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Ericsson helmsman Guillermo Altadill will not sail again until the Portsmouth In Port race after exploratory surgery revealed unknown complications to a finger he broke during the first night of racing out of Spain. Altadill was helming when a big wave smashed him into the steering wheel and his fin
Baker Hughes, Diamond Offshore Drilling, National Oilwell Varco, Rowan Cos. and Newfield Exploration said Wednesday that first-quarter profits surged as high prices spurred demand for oil and natural gas drilling and field services. Baker Hughes’ net income gained 89 percent on sales of $2.06 billio
Keppel Corp, the world’s top builder of offshore oil rigs, on Thursday posted an 18 per cent rise in first quarter net profit as a boom in new rig orders fuelled by high oil prices filled its order books. With about 40 per cent of the offshore rigs under construction around the world being built [&h
Exxon Mobil hopes it won’t be gambling its earmarked $100 billion on looking for oil in all the wrong places. The new head of the world’s biggest oil company, Rex Tillerson, 54, said yesterday the company plans to invest a chunk of its riches on exploration for oil in mostly Africa, Russia and the G
GulfMark Offshore, Inc. today announced that it has taken delivery of its latest new construction vessel, M/V Sea Guardian. The vessel, an identical sister ship to the Sea Intrepid delivered last year, is a 5,150 BHP Anchor Handling, Towing Supply vessel that is expected to start its initial contrac
Global container transportation leader APL heightens its commitment to trade between the United States and South America beginning Friday, April 28, when it commences a third service with fixed weekly sailings to the East Coast of South America. The service, named Samba (SAM), will begin southbound
B.C.’s largest shipbuilder has withdrawn from the bidding to replace the province’s northern ferries, saying it’s got too much other work to make the deadline. The Washington Marine Group said the timeline is too tight, with its Vancouver and Victoria shipyards working to capacity with other contrac
