The boom in cruise ship holidays is making big financial waves here with a record number of luxury liners heading to New Zealand this summer, and they’re expected to generate $250 million worth of economic activity.
Who would have thought last March that in the ten months between emailing an application form and standing on the dock here in Melbourne today, that the handful of amateur sailors given their chance to sail around the world would celebrate being the fastest monohull crew on the planet?
Richard Woods – catamaran yacht designer from Cornwall – and American crewmember Jetti Mantzke were rescued from their 33ft catamaran Eclipse off the coast of Mexico yesterday, 90 miles from Haultuclo.
ABN AMRO One is now just 152 miles away from the line but in just 8kts of wind Mike Sanderson and team are currently experiencing one of the most stressful points of the race so far. Their teammates on ABN AMRO Two are now just 54 miles astern
Nigerian militants who have waged a month-long campaign of sabotage and kidnapping against the oil industry said on Friday they would resume their attacks on the world’s eighth largest oil exporter very shortly.
SINGAPORE : Keppel FELS has secured a repeat order for an ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from ENSCO, a US-based offshore oil and gas drilling contractor.
Environmentalists may be up in arms but many people in Alang are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the discarded and controversial French warship Clemenceau – for their bread and butter.
General Dynamics and the U.S. Navy today participated in a keel laying ceremony for Littoral Combat Ship 2 (LCS 2), a revolutionary trimaran warship that is part of a family of new U.S. Navy surface ships.
MOSCOW, January 20 (Itar-Tass) – Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will chair a meeting of government officials Friday over measures to renew the country’s fleet.
Alarm bells are ringing for Korean steelmakers this year, as their biggest customers _ shipbuilders and carmakers _ are turning their eyes to cheaper supply sources in China.
Shipments of the super-chilled liquefied gas would arrive by tanker, and 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas would be pumped daily from the plant through a large pipeline to a distribution center in Pennsylvania.
Mike Sanderson sounds very tired in a recent radio call to our reporter Bob Platt
The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has asked the French authorities to send technical experts with modern equipment to Alang ship-breaking yard, where asbestos-laden French warship ‘Le Clemenceau’ is to be scrapped.
GROTON, Conn. — The president of Electric Boat made a pitch to U.S. Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter on Thursday to send more submarine work to Groton.
