Hong Kong has moved a step closer to becoming a port of call for 2008-09 following a round of meetings this week between Volvo Ocean Race organisers and government representatives. The latest development follows the recent confirmation of Qingdao as an Asian stopover. The race’s commercial director
Pierre Lacagne, says: “The Monaco Yacht show is exclusively dedicated to luxury yachts. Buyers and industry specialists come from all around the world. It is the perfect showcase for NAHEMA. We have sold the first NAHEMA 120 and production of the moulds has started in Australia at the Mould Cam Comp
The Barcelona International Boat Show will be marked by growth, taking up five pavilions of the Gran Via exhibition centre and two docks in Port Vell, where the on-water exhibition will feature mega yachts for the first time. The total area amounts to 115,000 m2 . From the 3rd to the 11th of Novembe
A guide for tackling an infectious vomiting bug on board cruise ships has been compiled by health experts. Norovirus causes sickness and diarrhoea and is easily transmitted in confined places, such as hospitals and schools. But the bug has also struck thousands of people on cruises in recent years,
Three men had a narrow escape after their boat capsized off the coast of Shetland. A father and two sons were fishing off Gletness when their boat was hit by a swell of water on Sunday night.
Kent firefighters have tackled a fire on board one of the car decks of a passenger ferry at the port of Dover. They were called to the Eastern Docks just after 0930 BST after a fire broke out in a boat trailer on board the Maersk Dunkerque ferry.
Guernsey’s newest ferry company hopes to begin repairs to its boat on Sunday evening. One of HD Ferries’ engines was damaged by a piece of debris, which was sucked in while at sea. The boat will be taken out the water on Sunday evening, so the damaged engine can be mended. The company has apologised
A yachtsman from Norway has been taken by helicopter to hospital in Cornwall after his boat sank off the Scillies. Falmouth Coastguard received the sailor’s emergency beacon alert 48 miles north west of the islands on Saturday morning. The man said the vessel was holed and took on water he was force
Spanish maritime rescue services have called off the search for 50 African migrants missing after a boat capsized near the Canary Islands. The boat was overturned by a wave on Thursday as a Spanish coast guard vessel drew near to it, about 150km (90 miles) south of Tenerife.
A replica Viking ship has set sail for Dublin from the Danish port of Roskilde. It is currently moored in a fishing port on the Orkney Islands, as its crew attempts to recreate the voyages undertaken by early Norsemen. The volunteer crew on the 30m-long (100ft) Sea Stallion from Glendalough are reco
Atlas Copco has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Mafi-Trench Corporation, a leading U.S.-based supplier of turboexpanders for the oil and gas industry. Mafi-Trench provides machinery including expander compressors and expander generators, which treat gases at cryogenic temperatures. Appl
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), which handles over 60 per cent of container traffic of India, is likely to award the much-delayed Rs 800-crore dredging contract by August-end. The lowest bidder for the project, Van Oord of the Netherlands, has set a deadline of September 1. The JNPT Board on
Cargo turnover of Vladivostok Container Terminal LLC (VCT) rose by 26% to 88.181 td TEU in Jan-June 2007 in reletion to the same period of the previous year, said in the company’s announcement. In June cargo turnover rose by 62% to 18.589 thd TEU. Export traffic of the terminal upped by 36% to 34.42
International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) of the Philippines is considering building an artificial island for a container terminal in Uruguay’s Montevideo port. ICTSI won the deal to build and operate a second container terminal at the port and is required to invest US$180 million in the ini
