Concord Times (Freetown) 28 May 2008 Posted to the web 28 May 2008 Ibrahim Tarawallie Freetown Member of Parliament of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) Tuesday told Concord Times that he was satisfied with the amendment of the 2003 merchant shipping act. The amendment act was tabled
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) — A Dutch shipping company has been in contact with Somali pirates who hijacked a ship with nine crew members as it traveled through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade & Technical Press release, 16 May 2008 Hitachi Zosen Diesel & Engineering Co Ltd today celebrated the completion of its first Wärtsilä RT-flex common-rail marine diesel engine at its Ariake Machinery Works in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The new engine was presented and de
FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 27, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a contract potentially worth $70 million to provide infrastructure services for Operation Iraqi Freedom. DRS Technical Services, Inc. awarded Raytheon the 2008 $36.2 million contract, which includes a 2009 o
Tampa, FL – May 27, 2008 – Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX), the world leader in deep ocean shipwreck exploration, has granted Primetime Emmy® Award-winning JWM Productions exclusive access to film Odyssey’s 2008 Atlas Search expeditions to produce a shipwreck exploration television
Vancouver, British Columbia – Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd., a world leader in underwater diver detection technology, is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3 of Defender II, the company’s automated detection and tracking software for the KONGSBERG DDS 9000 diver detection sonar system, and the d
Ship acquisition and modernization programmes of Indian shipping companies have paved way for better operating numbers for the top three private shipping companies – Great Eastern Shipping (GE Shipping) Varun Shipping (Varun) and Mercator Lines (MLL) – which declared their financial results for year
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade & Technical Press release, 26 May 2008 Wärtsilä Corporation of Finland and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd of Japan have signed a joint development agreement to design and develop new small, low-speed marine diesel engines of less than 450 mm cylinder bore. The two compan
Releases Summary of Stock Exchange Releases 2007 Summary of Stock Exchange Releases 2006 Order Releases Reports Presentations Webcasts Order Publications Image Bank Media Contacts Press Release, May 26, 2008 at 1.00 p.m. Finnish time Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling
Somali pirates hijacked a Panama-flagged cargo freighter off Somalia as it was sailing to the Romanian port of Constanza, AFP reports quoting a Kenyan maritime official. The ship is owned by Dutch Reider Shipping. The ship was hijacked in international waters in the Gulf of Aden. The crew members ar
Watch enough of the world’s best in action and it’s easy to forget that even Olympic sailors get wet sometimes when things go pear shaped.
Thirty-three year old Samantha Davies has become the first Briton to finish The Artemis Transat 2008 solo race in Boston, USA. Samantha sailed her 60-foot monohull Roxy across the finish line at 23:00:51 GMT (19:00 local time) yesterday (26 May) in a time 15 days, 10 hours, 00 minutes and 51 seconds
At 15:00 ECT yesterday ICAP Leopard, the Farr designed 100ft supermaxi owned by Mike Slade, departed North Cove Marina, New York, to begin her transatlantic speed record attempt from Ambrose Light. ICAP Leopard will be looking to break the record currently held by the 246ft luxury yacht Phocea. Havi
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Valiant Petroleum has started drilling its first UK North Sea exploration well on the Globe prospect with the Transocean Prospect semi-submersible.
