Dover Harbour Board has called for more long-term vision in the government’s transport policies to match its 30-year plan for development of the docks. An exhibition of plans to turn the former Hoverport at the Western Docks into a second ferry terminal is being held in Dover Town Hall.
Two specialist crane barges are sailing from Rotterdam in the Netherlands to join the operation to salvage the cargo of beached container ship MSC Napoli. They will start lifting the remaining 4,000 containers off the ship, grounded off Sidmouth in east Devon, on Friday.
Fincantieri, having agreed an industrial partnership with RMK Marine shipyard (KOC Group) of Tuzla (Istanbul), has succeeded in winning a bid called by the Turkish Authority for the Defence Industries for the construction of four patrol vessels for the local Coast Guards.
Jersey will need to change its law to get the same financial protection as other countries against oil disasters. The island is covered up to £120m by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, but it has not signed a new treaty that offers more.
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., the world’s second-largest shipyard, said Thursday that it has won a $500 million order to build five container ships for a German shipping company.
Launched in July 2006, the Maltese Falcon superyacht, owned by wealthy former Hewlett-Packard principal Tom Perkins, captures a lot of “firsts.” It is one of the largest privately owned vessels in the world and arguably the most technologically advanced sailing yacht — at launch, the 87.5m/289-ft, t
Besides cutting pollution and speeding shipping, dredging will benefit tourism and residential developments along the river. It could also permit the servicing of mega-yachts — the 80-foot-plus vessels that Miami seeks to attract with developments such as mega-yacht docking at a planned hotel comple
Technip has successfully completed the world’s first open sea catamaran floatover(1) topsides(2) installation on the deepwater Kikeh Spar(3), on behalf of Murphy Sabah Oil Co. Ltd. and their partner Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, for the Kikeh field development offshore Malaysia.
More than 300 people are thought to have caught a highly infectious virus on the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship. The Norovirus, a vomiting and diarrhoea bug, is common in cruise ships, hospitals and prisons.
Ocean Tankers Holdings Public Company Limited has increased its fleet to four ships with the delivery of tanker M/T Montauk on 24/1/2007 in Japan, local time 3.30. M/T Montauk has been renamed to M/T Kalia and has already hoisted the Cypriot flag.
Gulf Craft Inc, the Middle East’s largest yacht builder, is this year’s biggest Middle Eastern exhibitor at the world’s number one international boat and yacht show. Gulf Craft, marked its presence at Düsseldorf 2007 by exhibiting its Majesty 50 and Majesty 66 models for the first time in Germany. O
Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), the world’s only float-on/float-off yacht transport service, is ringing in the 2007 New Year with two new ports of call: Stockholm, Sweden and Freeport, Bahamas. The destinations embellish the Ft. Lauderdale-based shipping company’s many route offerings on its regular
Norberto Ferretti, Ferretti Group Chairman and founder, and his seasoned, unified management team have increased the stake in Ferretti S.p.A. capital to 40%. Ferretti S.p.a. is parent company of the Ferretti Group, one of the top companies in the world within the sphere of designing and manufacturin
A new slick has been formed from oil leaked from the stricken MSC Napoli as concerns grow for local wildlife. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the slick was several kilometres long and 30 metres wide and was formed from oil leaked from the ship on Tuesday.
