The first offshore race of Sydney’s spring/summer sailing season, Sydney Amateur Sailing Club’s Lion Island Race sailed on Saturday, certainly augers well for the season with a fleet of 33 boats enjoying excellent conditions.
The new ships will be delivered in 2012. The company did not disclose the name of the shipyard that will build the ships Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. announced last week it would buy up to eight new mega container ships for US$170 million each, for a total of US$1.36 billion.
It’s not often one gets the chance to see Neville Crichton’s ultra-modern Reichel-Pugh designed Maxi sloop Alfa Romeo (NZL) take to a starting line alongside Tuiga (MON), the Yacht Club Monaco’s 30 metre 1909 launched Fife sloop, and a fleet of Smeralda 888s, but that was the sight enjoyed by numero
Porto Cervo, Italy – It was a superb racing week in the Sardinian waters with blue sky, warm sunshine and different weather conditions ranging from very light and unstable breeze to steady wind over 20 knots. As usual, the regatta provided beautiful coastal courses among the islands combined with th
Police have named a man who died after a boat overturned on a loch in the far north of Scotland. Steven Storey, 50, was in a vessel with another man which capsized on Thursday afternoon on Loch Watten, located between Wick and Thurso.
The arrival of 17 new terminal tractors and three reach stackers all worth about Ksh 225 million ($3.4 million) has uppede the tempo of the modernisation of the Mombasa port container terminal. The equipment was immediately commissioned by a team of Kenya Ports Authority officials led by managing di
The 30 metre (98 footer) Alfa Romeo, described as the fastest and most successful super maxi in the world, is available for sale after its second highly successful European season ends in October, with its owner and skipper, Neville Crichton looking forward to his next sailing challenge.
The first 8,530-TEU container ship, of which China owns the full intellectual property rights, had been delivered to China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and left for its maiden voyage to the United States on Sunday. It has made China the fourth country in the world, after the Republic
The Philippine Navy rescued 65 passengers and 17 crewmembers from a passenger ship that encountered engine trouble off the southern island province of Sulu on Saturday evening, a Navy spokesman said.
Navy top brass and politicians have attended a ceremony in Scotland to commemorate the loss of a legendary Russian ship. A bronze cross was unveiled on the coast of the Firth of Clyde to mark the spot where the warship Varyag ran aground more than 80 years ago.
A cargo ship has been refloated after running aground overnight on the island of Sanda, south of the Mull of Kintyre. One of the six crewmen had to be airlifted to safety and three others were taken ashore by lifeboat.
A massive bulk carrier was adrift and slowly sinking off Port St Johns on Friday night after all 18 crew members had been forced to abandon ship, according to the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI). The 154-metre Amul was en route from Port Elizabeth to Durban when it started taking on water and s
New 55’ deep-water terminal is the largest privately owned container terminal in the United States, largest investment in Hampton Roads area Portsmouth, Virginia (September 7, 2007) — APM Terminals Virginia officially opened its new $450 million, 291-acre container terminal (on 576 acres of land) to
Here we go: MEYER WERFT launched the production of the first steel plate for the second new giant passenger cruise vessel Celebrity Equinox for the cruise operator Celebrity Cruises (Miami). Richard Fain, CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., pushed the button of the fully automated plasma torch.
