Like to feel the thrill of sailing but don’t want to bareboat charter? Here’s the solution for you… More than 3300 square metres of sail will take 170 sun-seekers on a romantic cruise through the alluring Tahitian islands when the majestic clipper, Star Flyer, goes sailing this August. You could be
A British-built £6m superyacht is set to dominate this week’s London boat show. But there is plenty to attract sailors of more modest means too, writes Simon Kurs. The luxury boat market has long been dominated by prestige foreign marques such as Feretti and Riva, but visitors to this week’s London
Dredging sector seems to have received the least attention during the 10th Five Year Plan period as none of the major port deepening projects envisaged for the time frame has taken off. Quite oblivious of the reality, the present 11th 5-Year Plan (2007-12) plan document talks eloquently of the need
Fishermen are to take legal action to challenge cod fishing quotas imposed by the government after a crisis meeting in East Sussex. They say new quotas for the area fished by the Hastings and Rye fleet allow them to catch one cod per boat per day and will put them out of businesses.
A Londonderry-registered fishing vessel and its crew have been towed to safety in the Inner Hebrides off western Scotland. A helicopter and two lifeboats went to the aid of the Niamh Aine on Friday night after it started taking on water 23 miles South of the Isle of Tiree.
Six months ago I set out on the most unusual and the wettest journey of my life. I was on board a replica Viking longship, the world’s largest and most authentic, which was attempting to sail from Denmark to Dublin.
A unique yacht with a reverse bow was launched today at Feadship De Vries in Aalsmeer. The 72m Predator, De Vries hull 674, is a creation of De Voogt Naval Architcts with an interior by Bannenberg Designs.
New calculations show that the costs of measures to electrify existing facilities on the Norwegian shelf start at about NOK 1600 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2). The estimated costs of measures are higher than previously published estimates. The high cost of measures is mainly due to the cost leve
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, on Thursday said sales would hit a record Won9,900bn ($10.6bn) in 2008 as increasing demand drives up vessel prices.
Under the close supervision of the Russian Ministry of Transport, several key players in the Russian Arctic in late December established the Murmansk Port Management Company. The new company will be responsible the strategic development of the port, including investment projects worth 4.4 billion EU
In 2007, the cargo throughput in the whole Amsterdam Port Area (consisting of the Ports of Amsterdam, Zaanstad, Velsen/IJmuiden and Beverwijk) grew by 1.5% from about 84.4 million metric tons to roughly 85.7 million tons, according to preliminary figures. This means that business in the Amsterdam Po
Rolls-Royce has received an order from Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, Inc. to supply natural gas compressors for the Petrobras Gasene pipeline. Siemens is the main contractor for the supply of turbo-compressor packages to the Brazilian state oil company for this project, with Rolls-Royce sub-con
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. announced today it has exercised options for the construction of four 58,000 dwt Supramax vessels from the Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, the parent of the Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co. (China), at a contract price of $42.3 million per vessel. The availability of these o
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited today announced that it has taken delivery of the Genco Champion, a 2006-built Handysize vessel, on January 2, 2008. The Genco Champion is the final vessel to be delivered to the Company under Genco’s previously announced agreements on August 14, 2007 to acquire six
