At the latest position report ABN AMRO TWO leads ABN AMRO ONE by seven nautical miles. The boats behind last night
Following the loss of their huge lead and the surrender of first place to ABN AMRO TWO, Mike Sanderson
Five oil workers were injured Sunday in an attack by suspected separatist gunmen on a plant of Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
When the leak was announced at around 14.00 on Sunday, all personnel without an emergency response role mustered to the lifeboats. Just over one hour later the leak had been stopped and the crew could leave the lifeboats.
The Dubai Cruise Terminal has received German Cruise liner, MS Vistamar, recently. The cruise ship docked for three days from January 5 to 7 and carried on board 285 passengers and 110 crew members.
According to this report on volvooceanrace.org the Spanish Volvo Open 70 movistar, currently lying third in the VOR, has reported a fault with the keel hydraulics on their Farr-designed boat.
ABN AMRO ONE has only 473 nautical miles to go before reaching the second scoring gate at Eclipse Island this morning, but in the last six hours the yacht has slowed to below ten knots, with wind speeds of around five knots from the north.
Finesse and patience has replaced power, aggression and brute force as the leading pack coax their boats through the dying breeze. The sea is now flat apart from a slow rolling swell which is assisting their progress to the northeast just a little.
(AP) DUNDALK A global power supplier is planning to build a $400 million liquefied natural gas terminal on the site of the former Sparrows Point shipyard in Baltimore County.
KOLKATA: India played a “passive role” in stopping the toxic French aircraft carrier Clemenceau from going to a ship-breaking yard in Gujarat, says Greenpeace, an international environment group which halted the ship in Egypt.
Particularly the second half of 2005, is a remarkable year for the sheer volume of work that came to the marketplace, and looking ahead to 2006 and beyond, Mr van Gelder said that in his 20 years with Boskalis he had never seen such a large store of work on the horizon.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Statoil with Prosafe to charter the Safe Scandinavia flotel, initially for use on the Snorre field in the North Sea.
ABN AMRO ONE leads by 165 miles from TWO who are in front of movistar by 91 miles. Pirates are 108 miles further back and ING Real Estate Brunel 849 miles from them.
We have damage to secondary support structure in the area of the keel. That means that the main structure is integral but the bits that bond it to the boat have been compromised, probably only slightly.
