A French fisherman injured 40 miles off the Isles of Scilly has been airlifted to hospital in Cornwall. Coastguards in Falmouth coordinated the rescue on Thursday evening after being alerted by colleagues in France.
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv wishes to announce that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation. The work will take about two years and the contract val
The tanker VLCC New Vision was caught in the recent severe North Atlantic storm offshore Ireland. Built in South Korea and delivered in April 1994, the New Vision is a double-hulled VLCC flying the French flag. Operated by V.Ships France, it is time chartered by Total from Norwegian shipowner Viken.
Three-year contract covers managed network services across more than 50 locations worldwide BT today announced the signature of a global network services agreement with Van Oord, one of the world’s largest dredging and marine contractors. Van Oord, working on dredging and marine projects around the
Rolls-Royce has won £72 million of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £155 million. In June 2007, the company announced an £83 million contract to deliver designs and equipment for six new Rolls-Royce offshore service vessels to Nordcapital
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited is pleased to announce that it has agreed to sell its 1995-built double hull VLCC tanker Chelsea for the net sale proceeds of approximately $99 million. Delivery to buyers is expected to take place in January 2008.
The FPSO Sevan Hummingbird has been successfully installed on the Chestnut field in the central UK North Sea. All 12 mooring lines have been connected. The FPSO Sevan Hummingbird will be working under a 2.5 + 2 years contract with Venture Production. The unit is the first cylindrical FPSO to be inst
If experience wins races then Swan Song should have the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2007 in the bag. Her crew have 212 Hobarts between them, a staggering average of 17.7 each.
Chinese archaeologists have raised a merchant ship which sank in the South China Sea 800 years ago while transporting a cargo of precious porcelain. The Nanhai 1 treasury ship, built during the Song dynasty which ruled China from 960-1279, is believed to contain one of the biggest discoveries of Chi
The Superyacht Cup is pleased to announce a new joint-venture with The Phuket Invitational Superyacht Rendezvous, Thailand. The Superyacht Cup has been organizing Superyacht sailing regattas for 12 years, with the recent event in Palma in June 2007 breaking all records by attracting 52 of the world’
Traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal was temporarily disrupted on Thursday after an oil tanker ran aground in the waterway, a canal authority official told AFP. The 150,000-tonne tanker, flying the Maltese flag and travelling from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, rammed the east bank of the canal after it
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd, an owner and operator of dry bulk carriers and a provider of worldwide seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes, announced today that it took delivery of two Supramax vessels, the M/V Mairouli and the M/V July M, on December 11, 2007 and December 14, 2007 re
BT and Van Oord, a dredging and marine contractor, have inked a three-year global network services contract, worth €2.5 million, to implement a global MPLS network and services in over 40 countries
Three crew members feared dead after a tug capsized in heavy fog on the River Clyde have been named by police. The men are boat skipper Stephen Humphreys, 33, engineer Robert Cameron, 65, and crew member Eric Blackley, 50. All live in the west of Scotland.
