Seventeen German businesses, from the fields of shipbuilding, food processing and IT, and more than 60 Vietnamese enterprises participated in the event. (VNS)
In the six hours since the last position report, Brasil 1 and ABN AMRO TWO have run into the expected light winds and, after curving north for a while, have recently gybed to use as much of the wind as there is to get towards the first Ice Gate.
The last two days have been a nightmare for the navigators in the Volvo Ocean Race as they scratch their heads and spend hours looking at weather models on their onboard computers, trying to find the best way to approach the ice gate ahead.
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On the weather maps sent to the boats by the race office, there are three important weather features contributing to the tactics: a high pressure ridge, an extra-tropical cyclone, and a polar low.
Brasil 1 seems to be just getting into slightly stronger winds at last and Torben Grael and Marcel van Triest
Hanjin Shipping, jointly with Thai Shipping, has established in Bangkok a local company, which starts operation on March 1.
Two men in a life raft were rescued by a passing tugboat yesterday after their 60-foot fishing boat sank about 3 miles off Molokini.
The Engine and Machinery Division recently secured a package order for 22 press slides and beds from a Japanese press producer, Komatsu.
Christensen Shipyards, the foremost builder of high quality certified composite motor yachts, is proud to announce the sale of Hull 029. On February 17, 2006, during the Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show, Christensen Shipyards completed the sale of the forth of the 157
In the past six hours Brasil 1 has gone from an 11 nautical mile lead into third place, but only two miles behind the new leader ABN AMRO ONE, the boat that is furthest south. Brasil 1 is now around 170 miles north of ABN AMRO ONE.
The world’s largest cruise ship is pulling into the outer harbor and will back down the channel to its berth. That’s because the eleven-hundred-foot Q-M-Two is too large to reach the port the usual way, under the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
Distance from north to south has increased across the fleet to 94 miles, with ABN AMRO ONE and the fast sailing Brasil 1 on top of one another, leading the race, the most northerly pair.
.S. Shipping Partners L.P. announced today that it entered into contracts with Manitowoc Marine Group of Marinette, WI and Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. of Panama City, FL to construct two double-hulled articulated tug-barge (“ATB”) units.
