VLADIVOSTOK, June 19, vladivostoktimes.com By the middle of 2008 at the territory of the 15th mooring of CPV one more specialized container complex with carrying capacity 100 thousand TEU a year will start working, the operator of which is LLC ‘Container Service of Vladivostok’ – the subsidiary of L
The final day of The Superyacht Cup yesterday was New Zealand Millennium Cup day bringing the most testing conditions for the fifty-two sailing superyachts with a solid 17 to 22 knot south-westerly breeze on the Bay of Palma. The triangular course included a long beat out to Isla de Sech followed by
A fisherman has been rescued from the sea after his boat sank off the North East coast. He got into difficulties after trying to clear a tangled propeller, damaging a pipe which caused his vessel, “Swifty”, to take on water.
The Defender of the America’s Cup, Alinghi, has announced it will be racing with SUI 100, the second new boat the team built for the 32nd America’s Cup. The team says it completed the measurement process for the boat on Wednesday.
The Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions for the 32nd America’s Cup Match have been released. The Notice of Race outlines the Rules for how the racing will be conducted. There are interesting points to note here, some marking small changes in comparison to the NOR for the Louis Vuitton Cup.
The final day of The Superyacht Cup was New Zealand Millennium Cup day bringing the most testing conditions for the fifty-two sailing superyachts with a solid 17 to 22 knot southwesterly breeze on the Bay of Palma.
Mr. Christer Antson (MSc,Econ) has been appointed President and CEO of Finnlines Plc as from 4 July,2007.
Eemshaven, Netherlands — The notorious Russian pirate fish cargo ship, the Mumrinskiy, has been chained to the docks in the Dutch port of Eemshaven by activists to stop it from engaging in illegal activities with pirate fisheries and facilitating the plunder of the dwindling Barents Sea fish stocks.
Varun Shipping, one of the leading shipping companies in the country, has acquired a Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC), Maharshi Bhardwaj, the company informed BSE today.
Contecon Guayaquil S. A. (CGSA), a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) in , has signed a contract with the Autoridad Portuario de Guayaquil (APG), port authority of Guayaquil, for the 20-year concession to manage and operate the Container and Multipurpose Terminals
BigLift Shipping is undertaking an investment program to extend the fleet in numbers of vessels and in lifting capacity. A contract was signed with Larsen & Toubro of India, for the construction of two multi-purpose heavy-lift vessels.
SHI on June 20 held a successful launching ceremony for their iceㅡbreaking oil tanker, which will become the first iceㅡbreaking tanker in the world. This is the first ship among the three 70,000ㅡton iceㅡbreaking oil tankers that were commissioned to build in November 2005 by Sovcomflot, a Russian st
SMIT herewith announces that it bought a share of 50% in Ocean Marine Services in Egypt. Together with its partner for 25 years (the Shilbaya Group) seven work vessels will be deployed on term charters for the Egyptian petroleum industry.
Superyacht Times brings my attention to another fabulous yacht up for sale. The 241-foot Salem yacht began in 1963 as the Dutch weather ship, Cumulus. The yacht went through a major refit in 1998 at the Devonport shipyard in the United Kingdom and was turned into a luxury cruising yacht.
