Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Vinashin to play the core role in transforming the shipbuilding industry into a world giant, thus speeding up national industrialisation.
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (“Knightsbridge” or the “Company”) announces that it has agreed to fix out on time charter one of its two Capesize bulk carriers currently under construction at Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd in the Republic of Korea. The charter is for a period of five years from the deli
Fishing communities in Devon and Cornwall are suffering high levels of poverty, according to a new report. Seafarers UK says fishermen’s families are more likely to have low incomes, debt, and suffer ill health and bereavement, than other occupations.
On Friday evening May 18 2007, the VO 70 Mean Machine of skipper and CEO Peter de Ridder smashed the record of the North Sea Race, organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club and part of the ABN AMRO North Sea Regatta.
Talisman Energy Norge AS has awarded Aker Kvaerner a service contract for provision of personnel and equipment for well intervention services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, including the Gyda, Varg, Yme and Rev fields. The contract is for a firm period of two years, plus three times one year op
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and Total E&P Angola, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total, announce two new oil discoveries with the tenth and eleventh exploration wells drilled on Block 32 in the ultra deep waters of the Angolan offshore.
Two-storey yacht store open doors this weekend in the seaside city of Burgas, reported the Dnevnik daily. ‘Yachting BG’, the Bulgarian distributor of ‘Azimut’ and ‘Atlantis’, will carry the offered yachts, motor boats and accessories.
On Monday, the Swiss Defender, Alinghi, announced it had sold SUI 75, one of its boats from the last America’s Cup. SUI 75 never raced in the last Louis Vuitton Cup or America’s Cup, but the team has sailed it in several Louis Vuitton Acts over the past three years. The boat is currently on [&hellip
Hundreds of cruise liner passengers have been forced to spend the night in Stornoway after bad weather prevented them returning to their ship. The holidaymakers were stranded after a day of sightseeing in the Hebrides.
Relaxing off the Spanish coast on the deck of Rising Sun, his $200 million, 453-foot super yacht, Larry Ellison is a remarkably calm billionaire, all things considered. ‘Ask me anything,’ he implores Times Online. Anything? Just hours earlier, the software tycoon’s BMW Oracle team has lost to Luna R
An American cruise company has strengthened its interests in Halifax that will generate more employment and revenue for the province. Pearl Seas Cruises of Guildford, Conn., an offshore affiliate of American Cruise Lines, has confirmed on its website that it will have a second cruise ship built at t
A replica of an old merchant trading ship has sailed along the Thames to be greeted by a full gun salute. The ship, modelled on the original 18th Century Swedish ship the Gothenburg, fired her cannon to salute London at Tower Bridge.
A record haul of half a million silver and gold coins from a 17th Century shipwreck may have been found just 40 miles from Land’s End, an expert said. US treasure hunters said the coins, worth an estimated $500m (£253m), were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean.
A 17th Century shipwreck with a fortune in gold, silver and jewels has been found in the Atlantic Ocean, most probably off the Cornish coast. The haul made by treasure hunters from an American company called Odyssey Marine Exploration is likely to make more than $500m (£253m).
