WILD Oats XI has sailed into sporting history and ushered in a new generation of sailing technology as its crew defied fickle winds and last-minute crises to finish the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in record time.
The Cape Doctor, the fabled source of winds along Cape Town
Sole British entry HUGO BOSS crosses finishing line in Hobart at 15:14 GMT HUGO BOSS finishes 9th line honours Alex Thomson and crew battled all the way up the Derwent in the final miles.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Dragon Oil reports that well LAM 10/112 drilled from the refurbished LAM 10 platform in the Cheleken Contract Area, offshore Turkmenistan, has tested oil from Zones 4, 5 and 6 at a combined rate of 2,950 barrels of oil per day, (
NEW DELHI: The dredging work for the prestigious Sethu Samudram Ship canal project is in full swing with one fifth of the distance in Palk Straits already completed, hardly after five months of its commencement.
The Pearl-Qatar, the multi billion US dollar offshore island and one of the largest real estate developments in the country, is forging ahead of schedule, board members were told at the annual visit to the development.
WEEK ago, a merchant navy ship carrying 100 tonnes of gelatin for a Border Roads Organisation project in Afghanistan started its long voyage from Mumbai port. Four days later, MV Egnia was back
A container vessel on a trans-Pacific route that ran aground Christmas Day outside Ensenada was expected to continue its journey after tugboats worked yesterday to pull it off a shallow sandy bottom near shore.
Korea’s third-largest steel manufacturer, Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., cut prices for its steel plates yesterday, the third time this year, in response to a decrease in the price of slabs, the company said. The company marked down each steel plate by 50,000 won ($49).
The output of China’s shipbuilding industry reached 12 million tons in 2005, making up 18 percent of the global share, according to the China Shipbuilding Industry Association.
The British yacht Hugo Boss was sailing comfortably in 7th line honours position this morning, 71 miles behind leader Wild Oats XI at the end of the first night of the Sydney Hobart.
SEOUL (Yonhap) _ South Korea’s top three shipbuilders will likely win record-high orders worth US$23.3 billion in 2005, industry sources said Tuesday.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has discovered oil off Brazil’s southeastern coast and wants to start producing by the end of the decade.
