Shanghai Shipyard & Chengxi Shipyard Company Ltd built a 3,500 TEU (Twenty-foot equivalent unit) container vessel in only 54 days, breaking China’s record of 60 days for a mid-sized container vessel. The shipyard’s accelerated shipbuilding technique has attracted more clients from the US and Europea
Europe has taken its fight to control the boatloads of African immigrants setting off for the Canary Islands to the coasts of western Africa. Patrol boats, planes and helicopters from Spain, Italy, Portugal and Finland are operating off the shores of Mauritania, Senegal and Cape Verde in a bid to st
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) contracted an order for eight 11,400TEU containerships with its long-time client, CMA-CGM in France. The order is valued at US$1.2 billion and is the largest newshipbuilding order as a single contract in the world. The ships will be equipped with the world
A memorial has been unveiled ahead of the 90th anniversary of a shipping disaster in Carlingford Lough which claimed the lives of 97 people. Passenger ship the Connemara crashed into a coal transporter and sank at the mouth of the lough on 3 November 1916.
The world’s largest pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) called at Port Rashid, the port operator said. The 228-metre long vessel Asian Empire has a total carrying capacity of 7,920 units. Owned and operated by Eujor Car Carriers of South Korea, the Asian Empire is under the UAE agency Diamond Shipping
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The salvage of the 48 metre sailing yacht Legacy, which should have been completed in July, has been halted. A spokesperson for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary told BYM News.
The Far Harbour 39, the first cruising sailboat designed to be container-shipped, will debut at the Newport (R.I.) International Boat Show in mid-September. The prototype of Container Yachts
First lady Laura Bush ordered the Sailors of USS Texas (SSN 775) to bring the U.S. Navy
The large process module for the Statoil-operated Volve field in the North Sea has been completed. Its journey will now take it from the yard in Thailand to Haugesund, western Norway. “The module will be installed on Maersk Inspirer, the world’s largest jackup rig,” says Svein L
LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance), a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group, has issued its first ISO/PAS 28000 certificate of approval for international supply chain security to one of the world’s major global container port terminal operators – DP World. ISO/PAS 28000 is the management syste
ART Marine, The Leading Marine Hospitality Company in the Middle East, proudly announces the arrival of the Azimut yachts range flagship. The astonishing Azimut 116 arrived last week in Dubai, together with four other Azimut yachts: the Azimut 39, the Azimut 46 and two Azimut 68 Evolution, all ready
Ocean Yacht Systems extended its support to one of its major customers, by sponsoring the prestigious Perini Navi Cup which was held in Sardinia from the 7th to 10th of September 2006. The Regatta exclusively for Perini yachts of 36 to 88 metres saw a record 17 of these magnificent Superyachts on sh
The Canary Islands are at bursting point. Not the beaches and hotels that cater for millions of tourists each year, but the police stations, courts and detention centres being used to house the boatloads of illegal immigrants risking the ocean crossing from west Africa. It has reached the point wher
