ST. PETERSBURG, November 30 (RIA Novosti – Northwest, Olga Vtorova) – Workers at a shipyard in the town of Severodvinsk on the Barents Sea have begun the process of decommissioning the Volgograd nuclear submarine, the enterprise said Wednesday.
West Bengal might soon get a shipyard of international standards, thanks to the Union government.
HALIFAX (CP) – A $30-million investment in an offshore exploration well about 15 kilometres north of the Deep Panuke natural gas discovery shows there’s confidence in the proposed project, says Nova Scotia’s minister of energy.
London – Mishap continues to dog the Volvo Ocean Race fleet with Ericsson Racing the latest to suffer during an incident-packed first leg.
LONDON – Mishap continues to dog the Volvo Ocean Race fleet with Ericsson Racing the latest to suffer during an incident-packed first leg.
SYDNEY – New Zealand skipper Neville Crichton will assess one of his greatest threats to winning the Sydney to Hobart yachting classic when new Australian super maxi Wild Oats 11 makes her debut in the Rolex Big Boat challenge here on December 13.
LONDON, November 30 (IranMania) – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the second largest shipping line in the world, has selected Iran’s Shahid Rajaii Port as its hub for developing activities in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region
LONDON, Nov. 29 – Dubai, the upstart sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates, agreed Tuesday to purchase the storied British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation for
WILMINGTON, N.C. – The container yard at the end of Shipyard Boulevard is operating only at about half capacity these days. But state port officials don’t expect that to last long.
NEWPORT NEWS — The Defense Department awarded Northrop Grumman Newport News a $1.9 billion contract Tuesday for the three-year refueling and overhaul of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 29 (RIA Novosti – North-West, Anna Novak) – The St. Petersburg-based Admiralty Shipyard has begun sea trials of a fourth-generation Project 677 Lada class diesel-electric submarine, the company’s press office said Tuesday.
ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson), leading the Volvo fleet in the leg one race to Cape Town, is standing on and sailing further miles but heading towards much more breeze, which should set them up for a fast ride in the closing stages.
We have certainly had an eventful and somewhat disappointing few days onboard Ericsson with broken sails from much earlier in the leg putting us on the back foot and then our incident with the keel last night effectively scuppering our chances of a podium finish on this leg.
After nine of 17 scheduled flights of the inaugural Monsoon Cup, the celebratory 50th event of the Swedish Match Tour, there are five skippers in a logjam at the top of the standings.
