The strong 85-boat fleet gathering in Sydney for the 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race includes nine overseas entries; six from the UK and one each from the USA, Mexico and New Zealand.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced the opening of an office in St. Petersburg, Russia, effective December 1. MOL positions Russia as an important growth market where it anticipates development and expansion of its businesses. It opened offices in Moscow and V
Vopak has reached agreement with its partners in the Pakterminal joint venture to buy the remaining 50% of the shares. The transfer of shares will take place before year-end 2007.
The first of Ericsson’s two challengers for the 2008-09 race broke cover yesterday when it emerged from the team’s boatyard in Kista, Stockholm. The second generation Volvo Open 70, designed by Argentina’s Juan Kouyoumdjian, was wheeled out of Irish boat builder Killian Bushe’s state-of-the-art faci
The strong 84-boat fleet gathering in Sydney for the 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race includes nine overseas entries; six from the UK and one each from the USA, Mexico and New Zealand.
Rolex Sydney Hobart starter Michael York, who has the honour of firing the starter’s cannon on Boxing Day, will have double the pride. As the sound of cannon fire rings out over Sydney Harbour, Michael’s son Andrew will commence his fifth race south, this time as a crewmember on Queensland entrant A
The deployment of booms to help collect the oil spill in the North Sea has been called off because the slick is too thin for recovery to the collection vessels. During the afternoon of 14 December, ships carrying two oil collection systems were active in the sea areas where the slick was thought to
Two Somali pirates accused of hijacking a Japanese tanker have been arrested in northeastern Somalia, but up to a dozen more were still on the run, police said Thursday. The chemical tanker Golden Nori, seized off the Somali coast six weeks ago, was released Wednesday along with its 22 crew, who app
About 1700 passengers, including Australians, from the cruise ship Norwegian Dream are stranded in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, days after the accident-prone boat collided with a barge.
Shetland Islands Council (SIC) is being asked to pay more than £5 million towards the biggest harbour dredging contract in the islands’ history after losing a legal battle against the work going ahead. Yesterday (Wednesday) Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) announced they had awarded a contract to Hampsh
Technip has been awarded by Grupa Lotos a project management services contract for the Gdansk refinery in Poland. In this framework, Technip will manage several projects aimed at upgrading the Gdansk refinery and increasing its capacity, ensuring their proper, safe and internally coordinated executi
Lerwick Port Authority has awarded a contract for the largest dredging project in the harbour’s history, which will open the port up to the decommissioning of offshore platforms. The work will be carried out by Hampshire-based Westminster Dredging Company, part of Royal Boskalis Westminster of the N
NOIL Energy ASA, operator of production licence 341, has concluded drilling of appraisal well 24/12-5 S. The well was drilled on the 24/12-3 S discovery in the central part of the North Sea.
Green Team has been confirmed as the seventh entry in the 2008-09 race. The boat, designed by Reichel Pugh and in build at McConaghy Boats in China, will be skippered by British Olympian Ian Walker. The team’s participation is twinned with a race stopover in the west Irish port of Galway. Green Team
