Ship Finance International Limited, announced today that is has signed new 12-year charters for the two 1700 TEU container vessels Sea Alfa and Sea Beta to an Asia-based regional liner company (the ‘Charterer’). The two 2005-built vessels have previously been employed on shorter-term charters, and S
Rolls-Royce, world leader in commercial and naval marine markets, will exhibit its successful coastal protection vessel design at the Pacific 2008 exhibition in Sydney, Australia, where Border Protection Command, a partnership between Customs and Defence, was established three years ago.
Serco Denholm Marine Services Ltd and Damen Shipyards Gorinchem have signed Shipbuilding Contracts for 29 new vessels as part of a 15 year programme to deliver marine services to the Royal Navy. These new vessels will operate in a fleet of around 110 vessels operated by Serco Denholm in both port an
JSW Steel Ltd. said on Thursday that it has signed a Joint Venture agreement with a Chilean company viz. MINERA SANTA FE, controlled by Leonardo Farkas Klein, a locally renowned Entrepreneur. The JV will develop iron ore mines and other projects in South America, including Chile. While JSW Steel hol
Surfers and boat users in Jersey have been warned to look out for wood floating in the sea. Police issued the warning after wood was washed up on St Ouen’s beach.
Young people from Liverpool are being invited to apply to take part in the 2008 Tall Ships Races in July. Up to 50 free places are available for people aged between 16 and 25 thanks to funding by the Liverpool Culture Company and Liverpool City Council.
European ship designers are currently working on what is billed as the ‘most advanced polar research vessel in the world.’ Aurora Borealis, as it is called, is set for launch in 2014 and promises to shed light on a host of polar mysteries. Explore more about the ship’s distinctive features using the
The crew of an Orkney fishing boat has been rescued after the vessel smashed onto rocks and sank. The Excelsior began to take on water after hitting the rocks on Deerness, eastern Orkney.
A £2m lifeboat has been left stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off County Antrim, after attempting to rescue three people whose boat was in danger. After several attempts to throw a line to the stricken boat, the RNLB Katie Hannan was forced onto rocks by the heavy swell at 2000 GMT on Tuesday.
More than 55 passengers are feared dead after a boat sank on Lake Tanganyika, off the Democratic Republic of Congo. The vessel was travelling from the town of Kalemie, in the south-east, to Moba at the time.
An operation to free a £2m lifeboat, stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, has been called off for the day. The Portrush lifeboat got into difficulty while attempting to rescue three people whose boat was in danger.
The corporate assembly of StatoilHydro has today, 30 January 2008, elected Svein Rennemo as new chair of the company’s board of directors. Svein Rennemo (60) has been chief executive of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) since 2002. PGS is a global oilfield service company involved in providing geophy
Triangle Petroleum Corporation is pleased to report that log analysis carried out on its Kennetcook #1 (KC #1) and Kennetcook #2 (KC #2) wells in the Windsor Basin of Nova Scotia, Canada, yielded an estimated resource range of 89 to 109 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of original gas in place (OGIP) per se
Guernsey’s relationship with the Royal Navy has become closer with the announcement a new warship is to be affiliated with the island. HMS Daring is the first of a new type of air defence warship and will become Guernsey’s ship.
