A cargo vessel which broke down off Cape Wrath in the north of Scotland is being towed to Ullapool.
Sunreef Yachts announced the second order in two months for a superyacht in the Sunreef series. Just months after beginning construction of a Sunreef 102 Double Decker, Sunreef’s in-house design team has developed a new concept – at 106 feet,a fast, high-performance but luxurious multihull, the Sunr
Van Oord and IHC Merwede have reached agreement on four split hopper vessels to be built at the Dalian Liaonan Shipyard in Dalian, China. The vessels to be built are part of our current investment programme. The vessels are long over all, 18 m wide, have a hopper capacity of 2,850 m³ and they have [
Euroseas Ltd., an owner and operator of drybulk carriers, container ship and multipurpose vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for dry bulk and containerized cargoes, announced today that a subsidiary of the Company has entered into a one year time charter period agreement for one of its
The remainder of the container ship, MSC Napoli, is to be finally removed from Lyme Bay after 15 months. The ship ran aground off the coast of Branscombe, Devon in January 2007, causing mayhem as scavengers swarmed to the area to loot through the crates that had washed ashore containing goods from m
Officials investigating the deadly sinking of the Seattle-owned fishing vessel Alaska Ranger on Saturday said they are interviewing survivors as well as looking into reports of blocked passageways possibly impeding escape, incomplete maintenance and the failure of those in the lifeboats to remain to
POSCO Engineering & Construction Co., a construction unit of South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO Co. (KSE:005490), said today it had clinched a US$112 million preliminary deal to build an international container terminal in southern Vietnam.
Van Oord Offshore signed a contract with client Rompetrol for the installation of an oil unloading system in The Black Sea in Romania. This contract has a value of EUR 56 million. The project will commence early May and be completed before end 2008. The contract contains an EPIC contract (Engineerin
MPs will visit two Glasgow’s shipyards amid growing concern that no final contract has yet been signed for the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers. Members of the Commons Scottish affairs committee are to tour the yards at Govan and Scotstoun which are in line to build the super-sized ships.
Hyundai Heavy Industries said Sunday that it has developed a new technology that makes it possible to launch a completed ship while continuing shipbuilding work at the same dock. ‘The new technology is expected to help reduce the terms of works by almost 20 percent because we no longer have to stop
After the success of the previous four events, this year Ferretti Group renewed its customary appointment – Convergence – the training and refresher courses organised exclusively for Ferretti Group yacht and megayacht Captains, in Rome.
The Alvheim FPSO left the port in Haugesund on the 16 February for final commissioning and testing in the Amoyfjord. Due to adverse weather conditions the sailaway to the final location on the Alvheim field was delayed. The Alvheim FPSO was moved from the Amoyfjord on the 25 March to the Alvheim Fie
Subsea 7 Inc announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US $200 million by Petrobras (Petroleo Brasileiro S/A) for an EPIC* contract, in the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. The contract will involve the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation
Aker Kvaerner today launched an internal process that will lead to the creation of one, new business area that integrates the operations of its current Maintenance, Modifications and Operations business area (MMO) and Field Development business area (FD). The new business area will have nearly 8 500
