On the 5th of December 2007 the naming of the Damen ASD Tug 2810 ‘Isola del Tino’ was performed by Mrs Rosella Caso, the daughter of the technical manager of Scafi, Mr Francesco Caso. The naming took place in the homeport of the vessel, La Spezia.
After the successful introduction of the Damen Fast Crew Supplier 3507, ‘Silni‘ a vessel type based on the revolutionary Axe Bow design, Brodospas ordered a sister vessel.
Four international consortiums, including one led by Vinci, Bouygues and Alstom, are in the running for a contract to build new locks for the Panama Canal as part of the canal widening project, the Panama Canal Authority announced Friday.
New Zealand’s super maxi Maximus, one of the favourites for line honours in this year’s Sydney to Hobart yacht race, has pulled out with a badly damaged keel. Yesterday morning when the boat was sailing from Auckland the crew called a PAN PAN, after a diver had gone overboard and found the complex k
Ship Finance International Limited, today announced the agreement to sell the offshore supply vessel Sea Trout to Deep Sea Supply Plc.. Reference is made to press releases of August 10, 2007 and November 7, 2007 regarding the acquisition of 5+2 offshore supply vessels from Deep Sea in combination wi
The surveillance aircraft LN-SFT, which has been made available to StatoilHydro by the Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket), made extensive flights over the areas affected by the oil spillage on December 12.
A fisherman was rescued by coastguard and fire crews after he fell onto the deck of a trawler. Emergency services were called out to Peel breakwater just before midnight on Saturday night.
The dredging of Mombasa port, expected to be complete by 2010, may now be delayed, other firms have expressed interest in the Ksh4 billion ($62.5 million) project. The EastAfrican has learnt that the Ministry of Finance has been forced to put plans to single-source the work from a dredging firm on h
A cargo ship, which became stuck in a Devon river, has been freed by a local tug boat and the high tide.
North and South Korea have ended high-level military talks without reaching an agreement on the creation of a shared fishing zone. The move was intended to avoid a repeat of violent clashes along the disputed Yellow Sea border in 1999 and 2002, in which a number of sailors died.
The Rotterdam Port Authority announced its intention today to grant the construction work for Maasvlakte 2 to a consortium consisting of Royal Boskalis Westminster nv and Van Oord nv. The contract will be signed early next year.
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded two contracts from Petrobras to supply a total of three subsea manifolds for two of the Brazilian oil giant’s projects offshore Brazil. Combined contract value is approximately USD 90 million.
Carnival Corporation & plc has ordered two 71,000-ton cruise ships for its AIDA Cruises brand, which caters exclusively to the German-speaking market. These two newbuilds mark six new ships that the German cruise operator has ordered in just the past three years. The 2,174-passenger vessels, which w
As ocean crossings go, the Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2007, which started 26th November, will go down in yachting history as relatively tame, save for humpback whale sightings, flying fish frenzies and token moments of equipment anguish in brisk winds.
