A boat powered by biodiesel has arrived in Bristol ahead of an attempt to break the record for powerboats travelling around the world. The 24 metre-long craft, named Earthrace, is touring 50 European cities
SINGAPORE: Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has won contracts, worth a total of US$410 million (S$593 million), to build 13 container vessels.
Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA), an owner and operator of drybulk carriers and container ships and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, announced today that it has taken delivery of the M/V Tiger Bridge, an intermediate container ship of 30,400 dwt and 2,228 twenty
In another sign of potential friction in the warming Arctic, Canada has warned that it will step up patrols of the North West Passage. Record summer melting of sea-ice has cleared the passage for the first time; and immediately escalated a dispute over who controls the route.
Hundreds of people in Cornwall will have to rethink their journeys after a car ferry beached. The King Harry Ferry takes cars and passengers across the River Fal between the village of Feock and Philleigh on the Roseland Peninsula.
Development of the offshore Taranaki Kupe gasfield is taking a big step forward with the arrival from Singapore of the rig that will drill the project’s three production wells. Weighing about 16,000 tonnes, the Ensco 107 rig was 157m high and 63m wide, the Kupe project said today.
Fire crews are calling for urgent action over the storage and transportation of fireworks as a ship laden with them was set to dock at Felixstowe on Monday 8 October. The Fire Brigades Union warns fireworks will be moved across the UK in the same ISO storage containers at the centre of the Marlie Fa
Making an entry into the estimated $14 billion (Rs55,300 crore) lucrative global dredging market, Chennai-based infrastructure development firm MARG Constructions Ltd has bought a Chinese-built dredger for Rs50 crore.
Dragados Offshore, S.A., which is part of the Industrial service area of the ACS Group, will build the biggest vessel containing drilling, process and oil storage facilities of the world in its Yard of Puerto Real (Cadiz), for the Norwegian company MPF Corp. This pioneering project will imply work l
A lone sailor was rescued by a passing vessel when his yacht caught fire off the Aberdeenshire coast. The Banff RNLI lifeboat was launched at about 1615 BST after the coastguard received a call from a man reporting his yacht on fire off Macduff.
The Hyundai Heavy Industries Group conveyed its deep condolences to Greece, which suffered horrible nation-wide fires that ravaged over 200,000 hectares of land, leading to over 5000 refugees. HHI donated US $500,000 to the country to help the victims of this disaster. Greece was the first customer
Final Royal Australian Navy Patrol Boat Named ‘Glenelg’. The successful completion of Australia’s landmark 14-vessel Armidale Class Patrol Boat fleet was celebrated during an historic naming ceremony held at Austal’s Henderson facility today. Austal designed and constructed all 14 vessels during the
Sri Lanka’s navy says it has sunk a ship used by the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 12 people on board. It was the last seaworthy Tiger vessel, as seven were destroyed recently, navy spokesman DPK Dassanayake said.
A boat builder, who started the revival in gig racing in the south-west of England, has retired. Ralph Bird borrowed a few of the traditional pilot boats from Newquay, Cornwall, for a race in 1981 and the sport began a renaissance.
