One look at the tracks of the boats on Virtual Spectator or, for us at race HQ a look at the Race Manager system, shows that speeds have been up and down and boats have been gybing from east to west and back again as they attempt to find a consistent breeze.
Squalls, calms, clouds, rain, just about everything in the weather panoply apart from snow and gales have hit the fleet. Jennifer Lilly explains why clouds are bad.
Dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster nv expects to acquire the dredging fleet and dredging activities of the Dutch company D. Blankevoort International Dredging Company.
A Quebec-based cruise company is planning to offer a new route with stops around Atlantic Canada. Transboreale Cruise is negotiating with ports from Montreal to Sydney as part of its plan to offer two cruises a month in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Ten warships, two submarines including the French nuclear sub Saphir, 60 aircrafts and over 5000 sailors are participating in these exercises.
Ha Noi (VNA) – The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) will launch a 53,000 tonne-capacity vessel, the largest ever built in Viet Nam, in northern coastal Quang Ninh province on April 6.
After years of meager shipbuilding budgets, the Navy promises to go on a spending spree, buying 51 ships over the next five years. Annual ship construction funding would roughly double, jumping from $8.7 billion next year to $17.4 billion in 2011.
Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL) of Kuwait have awarded Damen the shipbuilding contract to construct and deliver a 52 meter Wave Piercing Catamaran.
The FBI has failed to rank U.S. seaports based on the likelihood of terrorist attacks, nor does it always use that basis when assigning agents who specialize in maritime security, according to a Justice Department report.
The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) has recorded a marginal rise in traffic handling during 2005-06. The port has handled 34.45 million tonnes during the year as against 33.89 million tonnes handled during the previous year, a growth of 1.65 per cent, P Tamilvanan, chairman of NMPT said.
A welded aluminium hull, compared to fibreglass for example, will yield a more durable craft that will be easy to customise to requirements. This can be done simply and quickly. It also applies to repairs and retrofits to meet changing operation requirements.
Kjell Inge Roekke-controlled Aker Yards has decided that the group will not make a bid for the former Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, but will continue its cooperation with the Polish yard.
It will be a career shift from breakers to builders. Hounded by declining business opportunities at the world’s largest shipbreaking yard, cut-throat competition from Bangladesh and Pakistani and pressure from environmental groups, Alang’s shipbreakers are now eyeing the shipbuilding trade.
South Korean shipbuilders said they received orders for 22 vessels worth 1.81 trillion won, or US$1.9 billion (US$1 = RM3.68), as ship owners renew fleets to meet tougher safety rules and increasing demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG).
