Engineers are to attempt to refloat the stricken container ship MSC Napoli, nearly six months after it was grounded off the Devon coast. The cargo vessel was carrying 2,300 containers when a storm damaged her hull in January and it was deliberately beached off Branscombe beach.
A new jet-powered lifeboat costing £1.2m has been unveiled by a Dorset-based sea rescue charity. The Fast Carriage Boat 2 (FCB2) is propelled by twin water jet engines making it faster than its predecessor and easier to manoeuvre.
Work has begun to refloat the stricken container ship MSC Napoli, nearly six months after it was grounded off the Devon coast. A barge with winches and cranes, along with tugs and an anti-pollution vessel are at sea off Branscombe.
On the auspicious date of 07/07/2007, Hakvoort Shipyard in Holland launched the 38-metre luxury motoryacht Perle Bleue. Her delighted owners, Mr and Mrs Stanley Bey, attended the ceremony and threw a thank you party for 150 guests and workers. Diana Yacht Design was responsible for the naval archite
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. (“TEN” or the “Company”) today announced a three-year time- charter to a major European charterer of the 37,340 dwt 1B ice-class handysize product tanker Bosporos, expected to be delivered from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea at the end of August. The charter is st
Operator Statoil has completed the drilling of two appraisal wells at the Ermintrude find in the North Sea. Gas, condensate and oil have been proven. Wells 15/6 A and B lie in production licence 303 seven kilometres north of the Sleipner area in the North Sea’s central sector. Gas and condensate in
Aker Yards ASA has purchased 1 500 000 own shares at a price of NOK 78.6484 per share. Following the transaction, Aker Yards ASA holds a total of 4 000 000 own shares, representing 3.52 % of the total outstanding number of shares.
The stricken container ship MSC Napoli has been refloated, nearly six months after it was grounded off the south Devon coast. The 62,000-ton vessel floated free a mile off Sidmouth after 58,000 tons of water was pumped from her holds.
SSW shipyard is setting new international standards in feeder shipping. With the launch of the 152 metre-long ‘Anne Sibum’ on Saturday in Bremerhaven, the first ship of the new ‘SSW Super 1000’ series came off the slipway. This series has already come to be seen as the new standard for all feeder fr
PUMA Racing Team skipper Ken Read stepped up his preparations for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race with a record-breaking run across the Atlantic to take the big-boat honours in the HSH Nordbank Race from Newport, Rhode Island to Hamburg, Germany.
Becker Marine Systems Communication, a subsidiary of Becker Marine Systems, the Hamburg/Germany based global market leader of high end manoeuvring systems, is pleased to announce an exciting breakthrough in global yacht communications, the umc.global network.
ICTSI Ltd., a wholly-owned unit of International Container Terminal Services, has finalized agreements to put up a $180 million multi-user container terminal at the Port of Buenaventura in Colombia as well as acquire Sociedad Puerto Industrial de Aguadulce S.A. (SPIA).
At 439 feet, the Royal Clipper — with five masts and 42 sails plus a state-of-the-art navigation system — is the largest full-rigged sailing ship in the world. The 200 pampered guests can help sail if they wish, or even climb the mast (in a safety harness) if they are daring.
Statoil has completed the drilling of Ballena, the second of the three wells that are part of the exploration campaign in Block 4 of Plataforma Deltana, located offshore eastern Venezuela. Out of two intervals tested, one flowed gas at significant rates.
