Christensen Shipyards, the foremost builder of high quality certified composite motor yachts completes the sale of hull 036 to Mr. John Rosatti. The 160’ Tri-Deck is th
Rescuers have reached a stricken yacht in the Southern Ocean with two injured Australians aboard and are now staging a delicate operation to transfer them to safety. But the desperate search for a third Australian washed overboard by a massive wave in wild seas has been called off, the South African
Jersey has won the long-running court case against Guernsey’s fishing policy. The argument hinged on a decision by Guernsey to make non-local fishermen apply for licences to fish between the three and 12-mile limits of its waters.
Top spot in the Louis Vuitton Cup is at stake today in Flight 5 of Round Robin Two. BMW ORACLE Racing and Luna Rossa Challenge begin the day equal on points at the top of the table and face each other on the north race course area in Match 2. The winner will be alone […]
Seadrill has today entered into a turnkey contract to build another ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The turnkey contract has a net total project value of US$531.5 million with scheduled delivery of the unit in April 2010. The rig is based on the Fri
The latest addition to the Caledonian MacBrayne fleet, MV Argyle, the sister ship of MV Bute, will be named at Rothesay on Friday (May 4). The new ship, which arrived on the Clyde on Sunday from the Gdansk shipyard where she was built, is currently undergoing final preparatory work prior to the nami
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract to supply eight subsea boosting systems to Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company. The contract is worth approximately USD 25 million. The scope of work comprises eight subsea boosting systems, including power distribution, vertical connection modules, too
BAE Systems has landed its first export order for submarines in 20 years, the defence giant has said. Spanish shipbuilding firm Navantia has placed a multi-million pound order for parts for four diesel-electric subs.
Environmental campaigners have gathered outside the Forth Ports annual general meeting to protest against proposals for ship-to-ship oil transfers. The protestors want the company to scrap plans to transfer millions of tonnes of oil between tankers anchored four miles off the Firth of Forth.
The schedule called for one flight of races per day in Round Robin Two, but after losing the day on Tuesday when strong, 25 knot winds howled across the waters off Port America’s Cup, the Race Committee has scheduled two full flights today.
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., the world’s fourth-largest shipyard, said Wednesday that it received a 228 billion won (US$245 million) order to build five petroleum carriers for a European company.
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co yesterday delivered the hull of the nation’s biggest floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to ConocoPhillips China. The 300,000-deadweight-ton vessel, 323 m long and 63 m wide with a hull depth of 32.5m, is valued at US$230 million, and is the
Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) yesterday announced that its report of drilling rig status and contract information covering the company’s offshore drilling fleet has been updated as of May 1, 2007. Drilling rig status and contract information on Transocean Inc.’s offshore drilling fleet has been condens
Vietnam’s largest shipbuilder, state-run Vinashin, has announced that the group won contracts worth up to US$12.3 billion to build seagoing vessels over the next few years. Of the figure, the deals ordered by foreign companies are reported to account for $10 billion of the total while the rest has c
