The 2-seater personal submarine was recently debuted by C-Quester at Monte Carlo after the success of their earlier single-seater. Fully electric, the CQ-2 keeps cabin pressure at one atmosphere, meaning you can travel up and down with no decompression issues. A charge will last you 2½ hours underwa
HAMBURG tramp owner and manager Vogemann has ordered a dozen handysize bulkers from Indian shipyard ABG. It is presumably the first order for a German owner in India as the maritime community is looking for available newbuilding slots outside the traditional supply regions.
Wärtsilä’s Ship Power is in the process of reorganising into five Ship Power Business Segments: Merchant, Offshore, Cruise & Ferry, Navy, and Special Vessels. The aim is to respond better to market requirements, in terms of value proposition and technology development, as well as to be prepared for
A fishing trawler has visited Manx waters to test measures put in place to protect herring stocks. The 70ft (21.3m) vessel, from Northern Ireland, has been examining the population of the fish to determine how successful quotas have been.
Post-mortem tests on three men who died in an accident on a gas rig support ship in the North Sea have failed to determine the cause of their deaths. Finlay MacFadyen, Robert O’Brien and Robert Ebertowski were securing an anchor chain when the accident occurred off the East Yorkshire coast on Sunday
General Dynamics Electric Boat has received an $8.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to plan the post-shakedown availability (PSA) on the nuclear submarine USS Hawaii (SSN-776). Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
The volume of trans-shipment cargo handled at the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT) dropped by nearly nine per cent during the June quarter when compared to the corresponding period last year.
Disney Cruise Line officially opened an office at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany this week, as work continues to move forward on the design and development for the company’s two new cruise liners. In a ceremonial welcome, the Disney Cruise Line team presented Meyer Werft with an offi
Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited took delivery of a 2005 built modern Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). The PSV now named “Greatship Dipti” is a state of the art vessel of UT 755 LN design equipped with DP2 capabilities and was contract
The 2008-09 race will use a state-of-the-art race management tracking system to monitor the progress of the fleet on its 39,000 nautical mile voyage round the globe. The system, known as Saffire, has been developed by Bluefinger , the maritime division of Cybit , the UK’s leading online telematics s
The provisional dates for The Superyacht Cup Palma 2008 announced in the latest copy of the SYC Newsletter have now been brought forward by one week to June 11 – 14th. The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, in conjunction with Boat International magazine, have announced a second regatta from June 23rd to 26
Sky Petroleum, Inc. (OTCBB:SKPI), an oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce that Crescent Petroleum Company International Limited (‘Crescent’), the operator of the Mubarek Field, has informed the company that the Mubarek K2-ST4 well, the second of the two wells under the Participati
Concordia Maritime’s product tanker Stena President will be delivered from Brodosplit Shipyard in Croatia today. The tanker will enter a 10-year charter with the Russian company Argo Shipping and transport refined products from the Baltic Sea and the White Sea to Europe and the US. The Stena Preside
Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:LMT) said it has been awarded a 20.6 mln usd contract to upgrade fire control systems on Australian naval ships.
