Pirates are reported to have hijacked a UN-chartered cargo ship delivering food aid to north-eastern Somalia.
Today at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard there was the delivery ceremony for the cruise ship ‘Carnival Freedom’, ordered by the world’s leading cruise operator, Carnival Group, for the brand Carnival Cruise Lines.
Unknown gunmen have killed a Lebanese construction worker on his way to work in Nigeria’s oil-rich city of Port Harcourt, say security sources.
His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Heir Apparent of the State of Qatar, today laid the foundation stone for the Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project, a world-scale integrated project that will make Qatar the GTL capital of the world.
It’s by far the biggest private yacht to be hauled out on the new Travelift at Marine Group Boat Works. And if you happen to talk to vice president Todd Roberts, who supervised lifting the 193-ft. mega-yacht Ronin from the water, it’s the largest Travelift haulout ever accomplished on the West Coast
Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won a major energy-related contract in India. The project, which will be carried out for the Swiss based Allseas Group S.A., concerns the construction of a trench for pipelines to an offshore gas field in the Bay of Bengal.
Mumbai’s much-awaited first ever international boat show opened yesterday to a rather subdued crowd. At its best moments, the strength of the crowd milling about could not have been more than 250.
Debris from the stricken ship MSC Napoli has been washed up on beaches in Dorset and the Isle of Wight.
The crew of a cargo ship who barricaded themselves in their cabins in a pay row have now been given their money.
The salmon fishing industry worth £18m a year on the River Tweed is under renewed threat from a major predator.
A Devon man has died in a boating tragedy 200 miles off the coast of Bermuda, it has emerged.
Sri Lanka’s navy says it has sunk two Tamil Tiger boats off the north-western coast, killing nine rebels.
A boat used by Greenpeace campaigners to blockade the Faslane naval base has been seized after Ministry of Defence police stormed the vessel.
Smit Internationale NV today agreed with Adsteam to acquire Adsteam’s port of Liverpool towage operations. This agreement is a result from the requirement of the English Competition Commission as set out in its decision on the acquisition of Adsteam Marine Ltd by SvitzerWijsmuller.
