Burger Boat has captured a second award for Mirgab V, a 144-foot, tri-deck luxury megayacht created at its shipyard. It was launched in May 2006. Showboats International has saluted Mirgab for ‘Best Semi-Displacement Motor Yacht over 40 Meters.’
The latest news from the Fastnet Race shows 93 boats having retired from the 271-strong fleet which set off from Cowes yesterday. According to Trish Jenkins – from Fastnet Press office based in Plymouth – yachts have been streaming into Plymouth and other ports along the Devon and Cornwall coastline
SUBSEA 7 INC. (OSE Symbol: SUB) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued at upwards of US $ 80 million by BP Angola (Block 18) BV. The contract is for Life of Field support services in the Block 18 Greater Plutonio development.
The future of the former Fjord Seafood company in Stornoway has been thrown into doubt. It follows a decision by owners Marine Harvest to amalgamate the operation with Pan Fish Scotland and sell the combined company.
Super-maxi ICAP Leopard, with a clutch of Whitbread/Volvo sailors among the crew, completed a record-breaking victory in the 2007 Fastnet Race. The Farr-designed canting keel 100 footer crossed the line at 08:53:53 BST (Wednesday) to complete the course in 1 day 20 hours 18 minutes and 53 seconds. L
On 2nd of July 2007 Damen Shipyards Gorinchem was awarded a contract for the construction and delivery of four 70 ton Bollard Pull Damen ASD Tugs 2411 for DP-World’s Jebel Ali operation.
The product tanker market was strong throughout the first half of the year and the segment generated a strong cash flow, which exceeded expectations. A new agreement signed with TOTAL for additional time charters totalling 9 years. The large tanker Stena Vision has re-entered service.
Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA), an owner and operator of drybulk and container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, announced today that it took delivery of the M/V Beauty River to be re-named Despina P and the M/V Honor River to be re-named Jo
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling solutions has received significant offshore equipment orders. The equipment will be delivered during 2008–2010 and the value of the orders exceeds EUR 55 million.
A world-famous tall ship is due to dock in West Cumbria ahead of an epic recreation of one of history’s most infamous voyages. HMS Bounty, the Black Pearl in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, will spend three days in Maryport.
Coastguards in Devon say a number of competitors in this year’s Fastnet yacht race are sheltering in Torbay and Plymouth because of the bad weather. Hundreds of skippers left Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Monday at 1100 BST at the start of the 608-mile race.
DeepOcean has received a Letter of Award from TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd. of Aberdeen for the provision of Normand Flower, two work ROV systems and personnel.
TOP Tankers Inc (Nasdaq: TOPT) (the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into agreements to acquire three drybulk panamax vessels from unrelated third parties. The vessels are scheduled to be delivered to the Company between September 2007 and March 2008 and to enter into spot market tradi
A WARNING to the Pasha Bulker that the ship needed to speed up its operations has emerged as a possible reason the ship ran aground in Newcastle two months ago. The Pasha Bulker was one of 50 ships warned two weeks before it ran aground off Newcastle that it would no longer be allowed to […]
