Shipowners will soon be paying more services they require when ships transit the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) says rates for tug services will increase 8% and those for line handling services will rise 7%. Additionally, a US$300-per-wire fee will be charged for ancillary locomotive
HAMPSHIRE hovercraft manufacturer Reaction International is set to see a four-fold increase in production after coming up with a radical new production technique. The small Baker’s Wharf, Southampton, firm is looking to ramp up production to 240 hovercraft a year and is launching a push into the luc
Bomb disposal experts have blown up a torpedo head which was trawled up in the nets of a fishing boat off the Devon coast.
Prosafe has entered into an agreement to purchase the M/T Takama. The vessel, a VLCC, has a dead weight of 266,286 DWT and was delivered in 1987 by MHI Nagasaki, Japan.
Yacht Solutions plans to upgrade its customisation service by modifying and refitting old commercial vessels into super-yachts. ‘I would like to enlarge this business in Thailand. So my company will set up a big facility in Bangkok in order to complete our objective,’ managing director Gareth Twist
The Philippines will ban single-hull oil tankers from its waters from April, two years earlier than planned, after the worst oil spill in the country’s history and a separate leak in South Korea.
Imtech (technical services provider in Europe) announces that it recently won orders from several ship owners and shipyards in the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, the USA and the United Arab Emirates for technological solutions on board various yachts and cruise ships. The total value of these orders
Everyone knows that Australia’s Sydney Yachts, part of Azzura Marine, builds yachts for south ocean conditions and they have won enough ocean races to prove that. In the 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart there were 14 Sydney Yachts, considerably more than any other yacht builders.
Nine passengers had to be towed to safety after a boat ferrying them to their yachts in the Conwy estuary broke down. An inshore lifeboat was launched as the vessel was swept upstream by a strong current, at 11.30am.
Shetland crabs are to be tagged to see how far they travel around the island as part of a new research project. The programme – launched by the NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway – will check if 2,000 local brown crabs are migrating into foreign fishing waters.
For the fifth time leading European boat-magazines have elected the best yachts and power-boats of the year. After the selection out of 90 boats the Fjord 40 got the title in the class up to 40 ft length!
Chinese search-and-rescue teams were helping the hunt for a Russian ship with 17 crew that went missing in the East China sea last week, state media reported on Monday.
A new freight vessel for the Channel Island of Sark is preparing to go into full-time service. The 21m (69ft) Sark Viking will sail between Sark and Guernsey four times a week during the high season.
Relatives, friends and colleagues of fishing crews lost at sea have gathered in Hull to mark the 19th annual Lost Trawlermen’s Day. Sunday’s service also marks the 40th anniversary of the loss of the St Romanus, Kingston Peridot and Ross Cleveland trawlers, which sank in 1968.
