Up to 85 people are feared dead after a boat capsized off the Cameroon coast on its way to Nigeria. The large motorised canoe, carrying some 100 people and lots of cargo, had just started on its trip from Tiko to Oron in Nigeria when it overturned.
At least three shipbuilding holdings will be established in Russia, Deputy Prime Minister, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov. He said at President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the government on Monday that he was ready to submit concrete proposals on Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Germany are investigating allegations that a German shipbuilding consortium paid bribes to South African officials to win a major defense contract. Internal documents have reinforced suspicions of corruption.
A Manx ferry which collided with a cargo ship in the River Mersey is expected to remain at Liverpool Pier Head for another couple of days. The Sea Express One collided in fog with the Alaska Rainbow near the Alfred Dock on Saturday lunchtime.
THE alliance of companies tasked with building two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy is set for a shake-up, with American defence contractor KBR expected to lose its role as project manager of the team. The alliance comprises BAE Systems, Thales UK, Babcock and VT Group. A large part of the £
Two of the four Damen ASD Tugs 2810, which have been contracted by Bourbon / Les Abeilles in September 2005, have been delivered respectively on the 12th and 26th January 2007. The ‘Abeille Spartel’ and ‘Abeille Malabata’ will operate in the international port of Tangiers Méditerranée in Morocco whe
Saudi Aramco today signed a contract with Belgium dredging contractor Jan De Nul to help develop the 900,000 barrel per day (bpd) Manifa offshore oil field. Scheduled for completion in 2009, Jan De Nul will carry out dredging works in the Arabian Gulf before building several drilling islands and a 4
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s third-largest shipyard, said Monday it has received a $1.22 billion order to build five liquefied-natural-gas carriers.
Statoil needs more geophysicists. The group will offer jobs to talented science graduates and a one-year course in geophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
A wide variety of racing sailors and seasoned cruising yachtie’s from around the world have gathered in Langkawi, Malaysia to take part in a grueling, 4-day RLIR 07 race program and the RLYC organising team have guaranteed racing fit for the professionals.
The Queen Mary 2 is expected to become the largest ship to pass through the Golden Gate when the luxury cruiser makes a nail-bitingly tight tour of San Francisco Bay on Sunday afternoon. The visit is one of the riskiest passages in modern maritime history _ and a chance for 2,638 passengers to glimp
Farr Yacht Design is pleased to announce the launch of the Open 60 PAPREC-VIRBAC in Tauraunga, New Zealand. This boat is the 4th Open 60 design from their studio (VIRBAC-PAPREC 1 , DELTA DORE and PRB being the other three) designed for Jean-Pierre Dick who commissioned FYD’s first Open 60 VIRBAC-PAP
THE dredging contract for the Calabar River Channel that has been going on for the past three months may be heading for the rocks if issues raised by members of the Calabar Youths Congress are not amicably resolved. The stakeholders include the Obong of Calabar, Edidem (Professor) Nta Elijah Henshaw
Total profit of the shipbuilding industry rose 102 pct in 2006 to a record high of 9.6 bln yuan, the industry regulator said.
