Austal has signed a contract for four additional 47.5 metre passenger catamarans with Cotai WaterJets (Macao) Ltd, adding to the initial ten-vessel contract signed in 2006 by sister company Venetian Marketing Services Limited (VMSL). The new vessels will be identical to those currently under constru
Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists in the Southern Ocean hope to continue their protest after refuelling in Melbourne. The hardline activist group is also planning new tactics they say will allow them to stop the Japanese taking any whales at all during next season’s hunt.
The famous 34.3 nautical mile Passage Race which brings everyone together on Corio Bay at Skandia Geelong Week this afternoon gets underway off Williamstown at Aboard Aussie Princess, and in a continuing tradition, John Brumby, the Premier of Victoria, will fire the start cannon at 9.30am to send th
Port operator DP World said container handling capacity at its flagship facility in Jebel Ali will increase by 27 per cent in February 2009 under the ongoing expansion that will satisfy annual double digit growth.
The Pha Rung Shipbuilding Industrial Company, a member of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industrial Economic Group (VINASHIN), on January 27 launched the construction of three shipbuilding and repair factories which are considered to be the biggest in Vietnam so far.
Pantheon Resources, the AIM-listed oil and gas exploration company active in the Gulf of Mexico, is pleased to provide an update on the drilling of the Fay Weil Ross et al #1 well on the Nottoway prospect in South Louisiana.
Granby Oil and Gas plc provides an operations update for the Tristan NW gas development project in the UK Southern North Sea. The 49/29b-11 well has now been drilled to a Total Depth of 11,514 feet (3,509 m) Measured Depth which includes a 778 feet (237 m) horizontal section in the reservoir.
During a planned disconnection from the well due to deteriorating weather, the drillship West Navigator suffered damages to the BOP (Blow Out Preventor) and the sub sea equipment. As a result, the drilling on West Navigator is temporarily halted. The extent of the damages and the subsequent repair t
Horizon Group is proud to announce the completion of its first Premier 130+. On the behalf of the Horizon Group, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the Premier 130+ Debut Open House which will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from February 25~29, 2008.
StatoilHydro is ranked as a Gold Class company in the oil and gas category in the Sustainability Yearbook 2008, and identified as a Sector Leader among the competitors.
Port stopovers in the 2008-09 race are far removed from the pontoon parties of the early Whitbread days. These days they are big business. It is 1977. Heath’s Condor sails into Auckland Harbour, to be greeted at the quayside by more than 10,000 spectators, who have travelled from all over New Zealan
VOSTA LMG in The Netherlands has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a complete engineering and component package for 3 hopper barges for Van Oord in The Netherlands. The complete order consists of the design and engineering of 10.000 m3 hopper barges, including the delivery of the bottom do
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited today announced three-year time- charters for Panamax newbuildings ‘Selecao’ and ‘Socrates’ to a major South American state oil company. The charters are expected to generate gross revenues in excess of $57 million for the Company over the corresponding charter perio
The Dutch company that will dredge Port Phillip Bay’s shipping channels says it will reap half a billion dollars for its work. After repeated refusals by the Brumby Government to disclose how much it will pay to have the dredging done, the company has blown the whistle by telling a European stock ex
