An Irish-built replica Viking ship arrives in Dublin today under the power of 64 oarsmen at the end of a two month voyage from Denmark. The Sea Stallion of Glendalough , the biggest reconstruction of a Viking long ship in the world, is modelled on a 900-year-old vessel.
Sergey Pugachev’s United Industrial Corp. has found an investor to pay for the liquidation of one of Russia’s largest shipbuilding companies, the Baltic Plant. Vneshtorgbank will provide the corporation with $550 million to transfer the plant’s capacities to Northern Wharfs and raze the Baltic Plant
A degree is being launched to meet the rising demand for skilled crew to work on billionaires’ luxury vessels. Peter Kingston reports. ‘The luxury yacht industry is crying out for good crew,’ says Jon Ely, chief executive of the UK Sailing Academy (UKSA). ‘We estimate that there’s a demand for 3,000
The sea bus Salih Reis-4 which set off for Avşa from Yenikapı crushed into an anchored cargo ship around Zeytinburnu coast. The front size of the sea bus fell into pieces; 449 passengers panicked. As a result of the crush 40 passengers were injured. It is stated that the locked steering wheel led to
Following a 25-hour delay timed to avoid a potential disaster, the combined classes of the Rolex Fastnet Race yesterday embarked on their 608-mile dash to the famous lighthouse off the West Cork coastline and back to the finishing at Plymouth.
The Montenegrin coast is at risk of an ecological disaster after a Greek tanker partly sank in Montenegrin port of Bijela on Friday. The ship’s stern and its 215 tonnes of oil remain on the seabed, threatening to pollute the sea should the oil leak. The ecological consequences of such spills are usu
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s third-largest shipyard company, has signed a contract to build four container vessels valued at about $525 million (Canadian) from Germany.
The Tordis subsea facility now lies safely on the seabed near the Gullfaks field in the North Sea. Lifting the 1,250-tonne structure on the Tordis field started on Sunday 12 August. During Monday 13 August the Saipem S7000 crane vessel completed the operation and left the Tordis field.
On Tuesday 7 August, the cruise ship «Thomson Spirit» collided with another cruise ship – «Ocean Majesty» – on the Geirangerfjord in Norway. A lifeboat and the davit for a tender vessel were damaged. This resulted in «Ocean Majesty» being refused permission to continue its cruise until a satisfactor
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (the ‘Company’) reports net income of $7.2 million and earnings per share of $0.42 for the second quarter of 2007. The average daily time charter equivalents (‘TCEs’) earned by the Company’s five VLCCs was $36,800 compared with $43,800 in the preceding quarter. The seco
Former leader of Poland’s Solidarity trade union Lech Walesa has condemned an attempt by the EU to close most of the Gdansk shipyard. ‘The European Union should help us to bring efficiency to the shipyard, and we should not lose it as part of some stupid political game,’ Walesa has said, according t
Keppel AmFELS Inc., the US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), has secured a contract from Mexican company Perforadora Central SA de CV to build a jackup rig valued at approximately US$190 million. The jackup drilling rig is due for delivery in end-2009, and is
The captain of an Arctic cruise ship hit by a wave of freezing water and ice when a glacier partially collapsed could face up to two years in jail if it is found that he sailed too close to the ice sheet, officials said yesterday.
U.S. Coast Guard divers inspected the hull of a cruise ship docked in Long Beach Harbor Sunday after several people reported having seen a small, suspicious boat floating nearby, authorities said. Cruise ship officials called the Coast Guard at 11:30 a.m., after one of four people in the 18-foot ski
