There was no fear of daring in the ship owners of Beverley, the Benetti Classic number 11 launched by the Business Unit in Viareggio on Tuesday 29th January, who wanted a black hull for their boat, the first ever to be delivered by the Viareggio shipyard.
Extra-large yachts can bring thousands of dollars to the cities where they drop anchor. To yacht broker Tom George, the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg means one thing: boats, big ones, and lots of them. The race attracts dozens of uber-wealthy yachtsmen eager to strike nautical poses and glimpse
Mackeddie Marine is to launch the megayacht Platinum in a world first at Sanctuary Cove Boat Show. The 37m custom motor yacht was built in Launceston, Tasmania over three years. The vessel offers accommodation for ten with four double cabins and an owner’s or ‘honeymoon’ suite on the main deck.
Asia’s three largest steelmakers agreed to pay Cia. Vale do Rio Doce 65 percent more for iron ore, setting a global benchmark for prices that’s less than some analysts estimated.
Wellington (AP): Ten Frenchmen from a racing yacht that capsized on Monday off New Zealand were winched to safety by helicopter and flown to dry land, rescue officials said. Three rescue helicopters winched the crew of the Groupama III to safety mid-afternoon and flew them to Taieri Airfield near th
The European Commission appears ready to come to an agreement with the owner of Poland’s Gdansk shipyard, cradle of the Solidarity labour union that helped overthrow communism, which would allow it to restructure and survive, according to a spokesman for ISD, the Ukrainian company that bought the ya
The arrival of the Queen Victoria cruise ship in New Zealand marks massive increases in cruise ship volume, and potentially big problems for under-equipped ports. The 294-metre ship is on its inaugural global tour as the Cunard cruise line’s latest liner and will replace the Queen Elizabeth 2, which
If you’re hoping to sail around the Hawaiian islands this summer on Norwegian Cruise Lines, be prepared for fewer ships and fewer bargains. The Miami-based line is dropping another ship from its Hawaii fleet, leaving only the 2,138-passenger Pride of America to ply the island waters starting in May.
Aker Kvaerner ASA, the Norwegian engineering powerhouse has announced its commitment to further invest in its Process & Construction business by relocating and expanding the company’s technology fabricationarm; Aker Kvaerner Chemetics in Toronto, Canada.
Twenty-eight Chinese sailors are missing after their ship sank off the northern Philippines, the coastguard here said on Monday. The China-flagged Jinshan went down about 68 nautical miles northwest of Cape Bojeador on the northern tip of the main Philippine island of Luzon, coastguard spokesman Lie
Saturday’s strong winds helped disperse diesel fuel that spilled in the Gulf of Mexico when an offshore supply ship collided with a drilling rig early Saturday morning. The spill occurred before dawn about 140 miles southeast of Galveston and about 30 miles south of the Flower Garden Banks National
Experience from the Kristin field is essential to develop the Morvin field in the Norwegian Sea. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was today submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
Sibir today announces that it has spudded the first development well at the Orekhovskoye oil field in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of western Siberia. The field is operated by Sibir subsidiary OAO Magma (‘Magma’) and holds 49 million barrels of C1 and 5.3 million barrels C2 under the Russ
Transocean Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hercules Offshore, Inc. to sell three of its U.S. Gulf of Mexico jackup drilling rigs and related equipment for $320 million. The sales of the GSF Adriatic III, GSF High Island I and GSF High Island VIII will mark T
