Baby boomers are buying into boating despite the stubbornly high dollar. Tim Hunter reports. Aronui, a 21 metre temple of sportfishing luxury, defies anyone to say a bad word about the economy, exports or Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard. Visitors to the Auckland International Boat Show today will
Great success for the fourth edition of “Convergence”, the prestigious training course dedicated to Captains of the Ferretti Group, which this year took place in Naples from February 27th to March 2nd.
TVTB (I love you) is not the prolongation of the recent Valentine’s Day but the name of the new mega-yacht launched by ISA early this week. This marvellous 41,40 metres planing maxi yacht gracefully glided on the water under the yard staff’s eyes, with a simple but traditional ceremony.
The Penglai Bohai Shipyard Company Co., Ltd. and Damen Shipyards Gorinchem have signed a 5 year Business Cooperation Agreement for the construction of the top end of the range of Damen standard tug boats and in particular the larger Azimuth Stern Drive tug designs.
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), has delivered PV DRILLING I, a KFELS B class jackup rig to PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services Joint Stock Company. The project, which was signed on 22 February 2005 was delivered to it
Ben Vree, SMIT’s CEO, comments: “It was a record year for SMIT. In 2006, we nearly doubled our net profit. We had the wind in our sails in nearly all our divisions, particularly during the second half of the year. Our associated companies also performed exceedingly well. Only the growth of the Termi
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has received an order for 84 terminal tractors from port operator DP World. The terminal tractors will be delivered during summer 2007 to Jebel Ali Port situated close to Dubai.
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with China Petroleum Material & Equipment (Group) Corporation (a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation) for the basic engineering design and supply of certain equipment for a new Polypropylene plant at the PetroChina GuangXi Petrochemical Compan
A roll-on-roll-off container ship capsized during loading today in the port of Antwerp, Belgian officials said. No injuries were reported. Port authority captain Jan Persi said that, for reasons still unknown, the 216-metre Republica slowly rolled onto its starboard side in a deadend dock.
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv announces that today at around 2.00 PM local time a container vessel ran into its trailer suction hopper dredger W.D. Fairway during dredging operations in Tianjin, China. There were no personal injuries. The vessel is currently stable and the crew is on board.
Dubai Dubai is all set to host the boating world’s biggest attraction, Dubai International Boat Show (DIBS), the premier exhibition in the Middle East for the leisure marine industry, from March 13 to 17, 2007. This year’s boat show is expected to see billions of dollar deals as waterfront developme
Environmental group Greenpeace’s anti-whaling ship Esperanza sailed into Sydney Harbour on Friday to re-supply after protesting against Japanese whalers in the Antarctic and heads on from there to Japan to pursue its protest. Japan last month abandoned its Antarctic whale-hunting season after its ma
The Navy is considering terminating part of its troubled Littoral Combat Ship program as it struggles to bring the ship’s spiraling costs under control, the service’s top admiral said Thursday. “All options are on the table right now,” Adm. Mike Mullen, the chief of naval operations, told reporters.
Northrop Grumman Corp. workers at the Century City-based company’s Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., rejected a proposed labor contract for the second time. Employees at the New Orleans shipyard approved their contract.
