former cleaner from Dorset has arrived in British waters after an epic 13-year adventure over five continents, two oceans and a sea. Jason Lewis aimed to be the first to circle the global on human power alone.
It has shrunk in size from its heyday, but Harland and Wolff is still competing at an international level in terms of design. The yard that built the Titanic is now to design elements of an advanced heavy lift vessel after an agreement with Netherlands shipbuilder, Merwede.
Stratos Global Corp. (TSX: SGB), the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced the commercial availability of Inmarsat’s Satellite Phone Services. The new services are available in mobile, fixed-land and fixed-maritime packages.
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has received a letter of intent from Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the first construction phase of the new offshore Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi. Boskalis will execute the project in partnership with its subsidiary, Archirodon, and the Korean company Hyundai. The contract is
Rolls-Royce today announced the acquisition of U.S. naval architecture and engineering firm Seaworthy Systems Inc to improve further its marine support services. Seaworthy Systems Inc., based in Connecticut, with offices in New Jersey, Virginia and California, has provided expertise to the US Navy a
A fishing ship with 12 people on board has disappeared in the waters off North Sulawesi province in eastern part of Indonesia since Saturday morning, head of administration of Bitung sea port in the province Sumargoto said on Monday.
The cruise season at Kamchatka has closed. On September 29 the biggest Dutch cruise ship Amsterdam with 1200 tourists and 600 crew members aboard arrived to Kamchatka and became the last tourist ship to visit the region this season.
Aker Kvaerner has won a 360million contract with BP to carry out the detail engineering, procurement and construction management assistance for the Skarv field development in the Norwegian Sea.
The first day of trading with the StatoilHydro share was celebrated on the Oslo stock exchange (Oslo Børs) today, 1 October, when chief financial officer Eldar Sætre rang the bell to open the market.
The merger between Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA’s petroleum business has been implemented today, 1 October 2007.
In one of the largest orders bagged by ABC and first of its kind from a German shipping company, ABG Shipyard has concluded an order for construction of 12 handysize bulk carriers of 35000 DWT each from Bereederungsgesellschaft H Vogemann GmbH & Co KG, Hamburg. The deal is worth approximately Rs 143
Wärtsilä has introduced a new, ‘-D’ version of its RT-flex50 low-speed marine engine type with a higher power rating and lower fuel consumption compared with the existing ‘-B’ version. The maximum continuous power output of the RT-flex50 has been raised by 5.1% from 1660 to 1745 kW/cylinder (2260 to
Golden Ocean Group Limited (‘Golden Ocean’ or the ‘Company’) has agreed to sell one of the Company’s Capesize newbuildings for net sale proceeds of $145 million. Delivery to the buyers is expected to take place in May 2008.
AHMEDABAD: In order to give a push to the ship-building industry in Gujarat, the state government plans to introduce a ship-building policy. ‘In recent years, Gujarat has emerged as a major destination for development of ports and port-based facilities catering to the needs of the vast hinterlands o
