As owner of Golden Boy II, Matt Sawyer wants to make it clear that he’s just a normal guy who happens to own a 115 ft yacht. “I’d rather sound like a successful businessman than an arrogant young kid,” said Sawyer, “because I really don’t think I’m that way.” But the undeniable fact remains that [&h
Hampshire-based Royal Navy vessel has been scrambled to aid a cruise ship with 280 passengers on board after it ran aground. The ice patrol vessel HMS Endurance has sent ahead a Lynx helicopter to help with the evacuation of the Norwegian ship MS Nordkapp.
The stricken container ship MSC Napoli is not in immediate danger of breaking up, the government official in charge of the salvage has said. Robin Middleton, of the Department for Transport, was responding to newspaper reports which said the vessel was at high risk because of hull fractures.
A cargo ship that became disabled on rough North Pacific seas this week has made repairs and is continuing on to Long Beach, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. The 938-foot Hyundai Confidence was moving south at 9 knots after fixing engine problems that cropped up Tuesday, said Lt. Charter Tschirgi wit
A Norwegian cruise ship carrying nearly 300 passengers, including 119 Americans, ran aground on a remote Antarctic island and damaged its hull before getting free of the rocks, officials said. No one was injured.
China has banned commercial fishing for three months along a 1,000km (620 mile) stretch of the Yangtze River in a bid to protect threatened fish stocks. Fishing boats will be banned from trawling in central Hubei province and Chongqing Municipality, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The first containers salvaged from the stricken vessel, the MSC Napoli, are due to arrive at Portland Port in Dorset. A shuttle barge, carrying about 70 containers, is travelling from the ship’s beached position in Lyme Bay.
Supermarket chain Asda is to stop selling monkfish amid concerns over depleting stocks and the way it was being fished. The retail giant says it will no longer supply the restaurant favourite until there are more sustainable ways of catching it.
On January 29th 2007, mv Slidur, was delivered to her owner, a single ship KG under management of Reederei Jan Kahrs, Jork, Germany. This vessel, a Damen Container Feeder 800, is the last out of a series of five for Reederei Jan Kahrs. The vessel was built at Damen Shipyards Galati as yard number 86
Statoil has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for modification of the Norne FPSO topside for tie-back of the Alve satellite field. The contract is a full EPCI contract including engineering and procurement, through construction to installation. The contract value is approximately NOK 390 million and
The transportation unit of Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras said Wednesday that it will pay US$1.2 billion (euro925 million) to build 10 oil tankers. Brazil’s National Development Bank will finance the shipbuilding project with 2.47 billion reals (US$1.16 million; euro895 million), the press off
Operator Statoil has awarded Aker Kvaerner Offshorepartner (Akop) a contract worth NOK 390 million in relation to the Norwegian Sea’s Alve development. During the first quarter of this year, several Alve contracts worth around NOK 900 million will be agreed.
Will Introduce “SeaDream’s Caribbean” In Winter Season 2007-2008 SeaDream Yacht Club has announced it will not return to cruising South America in the winter season of 2007-2008. SeaDream II, one of the company’s twin, luxury, mega-yacht cruisers that was to have cruised South America between Novemb
IT took a crew of 24 to guide Roman Abramovich’s super-yacht into Poole Quay on Thursday. The multinational team – some of them rumoured to be ex SAS – came from Slovakia, Nepal, Luxembourg, Australia and the UK, although the Russian owner of Chelsea FC was nowhere to be seen.
