The fisheries minister has been visiting fishermen and fish merchants in Sussex to discuss plans to develop the industry. Jonathan Shaw toured Hastings fish market and met representatives of the town’s Fishermen’s Protection Society.
The annual Bristol Harbour Festival is under way in the city docks. There were fears that the recent floods would prevent many smaller vessels from making the trip to the city festival. Organisers of the 36th event said they were hoping for 250 boats to attend.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced that MOL, the Kansai Electric Power Co., Ltd., and Iino Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd. (Iino Lines) have agreed on joint ownership of a newly built LNG carrier (MOSS type, 145,000m3). MOL will hold a 15% share of the new vessel, Kansai
Technip, jointly with the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), has been awarded by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Zakum gas processing facilities offshore Abu Dhabi. Technip will have a 35% share of this contrac
Nordcapital Group and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have signed contracts for the construction of eight container vessels with a capacity of 13,100 teu. The ships, which are the biggest container vessels ever built by HHI, will be delivered between April 2010 and March 2011 and are still available
Smit Internationale announces that the results during the first half of 2007 are in line with those achieved during the second half of 2006.
Australian sailor Peter ‘Spike’ Doriean has unfinished business to settle in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 after being thwarted from completing the last race when his boat movistar sank on the seventh leg of the round-the-world ocean marathon.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded funding by the U.S. Navy for research and development of advanced technologies for current and future submarines. Northrop Grumman’s Newport News sector is the prime contractor for the work, which is valued at approximately $16.9 million. An addit
Skippers and crew attending tonight’s Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race briefing will be advised the windiest part of the entire 384 nautical mile race could be on Sydney Harbour this Saturday when a 10-15 knot south westerly breeze is likely to produce a colourful spinnaker start. ‘The fleet can ex
An exhausted yachtsman was rescued four miles out at sea as he made his way home from a sailing event. Crews from Sunderland RNLI helped tow the yacht to safety at 11pm yesterday while its skipper rested with a cup of coffee. The 49-year-old sailor, from Fulwell, had been returning from an event at
It was a media report about an expensive yacht that was stolen from the Mornington Peninsula that got David Mott thinking. The yacht’s desperate owner hired a spotter plane to try and find his vessel, which was later found abandoned on Tasmania’s East Coast. Mott had been an electronics engineer and
Russell Coutts, the most successful helmsman in the recent history of the America’s Cup, confirmed Tuesday that he was returning to the Cup and joining BMW Oracle Racing as skipper and chief executive officer. What sort of Cup that will be is unclear now that Coutts’s new employer, the billionaire L
BMW Oracle have signed three-times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts to lead their next challenge. The US syndicate’s challenge has not yet been accepted by defender Alinghi while a legal wrangle hangs in the air. Coutts skippered New Zealand’s successful challenge for sailing’s most prestigious p
The Australian Marine Complex (AMC), Australia’s premiere shipbuilding precinct, has been a hive of activity this week with the opening of a new wharf, the world’s biggest dredge in operation and a meeting held to discuss the growth of the local super-yacht industry. Industry and Enterprise Minister
