During the 17th annual Showboats International awards dinner and presentation, held at the Sporting Club of Monte-Carlo, the editor in chief of the magazine, Jill Bobrow, and the publisher, Gary de Santis, presented the award to Esense’s design team (Bill Tripp, the naval architect, and Odile Decq ,
Emirates Team New Zealand earned an incredible win in Race Three of the 32nd America’s Cup to take a 2-1 lead in the Match. The Kiwis came from behind on the final run to overtake Alinghi and win the race by 25 seconds.
Emirates Team New Zealand won its second consecutive race in the 32nd America’s Cup Match, beating Alinghi by 25 seconds in a thrilling race that will go down in the books as one of the most exciting matches in Cup history.
Aberdeen Harbour’s contribution to the economy of North-east Scotland exceeds £400 million in a year, according to a new report, published today (26 June, 2007). The impact on Aberdeen City and Shire has been calculated at £420 million in 2006, a year of record activity at the port.
At BARKMEIJER SHIPYARDS, on Wednesday the 20th of June 2007 the thirteenth ship out of the successful serie of 4500-DWT general cargo vessels has been delivered to her new owners, Arklow Shipping Ltd. After the succesfull sea trials on Tuesday the 19th of June 2007 the ‘Arklow Raven’ is handed over
Six Indonesians armed with parangs (machetes) and pistols sneaked on board a vessel and robbed eight crewmen of their belongings and cash, resulting in some RM25,000 worth of losses. The ship Mujur Samudra was docking near Pulau Lima here while on its way to Vietnam at 9.45pm on Saturday when eight
A DANISH cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates earlier this month has run out of food and fresh water at sea, a Kenyan maritime official said today. The MV Danica White and its five Danish crew members were carrying building materials from Dubai to Kenya when it was seized off Somalia in the world’s
A Norway-based PetroProd D&P I, a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroProd Ltd, has signed an EPC contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd of Singapore on June 22, 2007 for the construction of one MSC/Gusto CJ70 jack up rig at a cost of approximately USD 440 million to be delivered in 2010.
Salvage teams have laid the three anchors and connecting sea cables that they will use in a bid to winch the Pasha Bulker from a sandbar off a Newcastle beach on the NSW coast. Newcastle Port Corporation spokesman Keith Powell said the anchors and cables had been successfully positioned by tug boats
Rigs to be built to Keppel FELS’s proprietary KFELS N Class jackup and SSDT 3600E semisubmersible drilling tender designs. Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Limited, has secured two rig contracts amounting to US$534 million (approximately S$820 millio
A ballasting operation continued in Tasman Bay, near Nelson, on Sunday. A load of iron sand slurry on the ship shifted in rough waters off the coast of Taranaki on Friday, causing the ship to list.
It’s all square at the 32nd America’s Cup after Emirates Team New Zealand scored a come from behind win on Sunday afternoon over the Defender, Alinghi. The Kiwis have got a huge monkey off their back. Prior to Sunday’s win, Team New Zealand had dropped six consecutive America’s Cup Match races to Al
An engineer’s mistake left ‘Denden,’ the Eritrean ship, capsized off the Mangalore Coast on Saturday, killing two crew members. The ship was supposed to be in the UAE, with its load of iron slag from KIOCL, on Saturday. It had sailed off from the New Mangalore Port on June 20 at 6.30 am.
Sailors have been warned to check their boat engines are in full working order after a craft was rescued for the third time in five months. The two-man crew of the Abbie Rose were fishing a mile off Tynemouth when their propeller fell off, leaving them drifting helplessly.
