Ras Al Khaimah: A cargo ship that capsized off Ras Al Khaimah dumping 1,600 tonnes of white cement into the sea was shifted from Saqr Port to RAK Port on Thursday. The ship capsized as it tried to change course during a storm a few days ago. The transfer will help officials clean up the […]
After the first full night of racing the fleet is starting to show a north/south spread. The shortest route would be to aim for just south of Cape Race at the south eastern tip of Newfoundland and then sail a great circle course directly for the Western Approaches and Jersey. This is not necessarily
The Hamburg shipping company
Despite a strong south westerly wind and four metre swells, both the cargo removal and fuel removal operations with respect to the grounded container ship
Rotterdam, the Netherland – Brewaba, Van Oord’s German subsidiary, has been awarded a dredging contract in Bremerhaven, Germany. Client is Bremenports Consult GmbH. The project is executed in joint venture. The contract value for Van Oord amounts to EUR 7 million. Execution of the project starts on
Areva Challenge has made some changes to the afterguard of its race boat following Louis Vuitton Act 12. The French team says that Thierry Peponnet will no longer be skipper and helmsman but will remain with the team. His new role is still to be defined.
The Board of Directors of SembCorp Marine Ltd (the
The Maltese Falcon has left the Yildiz shipyards in Turkey on the 1st of July, and is now sailing towards La Spezia via Malta (in the pictures, MF sailing through the Bosphorus, and leaving La Valletta port). The owner declared: “We picked the departure date of July 1st to leave the yard, and during
Lurssen’s Apoise (formerly known as project Marlin). The 67-meter (around 220 feet) yacht has been delivered to her owner. She was designed by Espen Oeino to offer a lot of space without an ungainly length. There are six decks with four guest cabins with king size beds on the lower deck and the main
FOLLOWING the failure of A.P. Moller to decongest ports and bring about a seamless port operation, a group of six shipping companies have formed a consortium with a view to breaking the monopoly of A .P. Moller at the container terminal port . The group, which is made up of Alraine Nigeria Limited,
Port of Miami-Dade executives hope their plan to dredge the port’s main entrance to 52 feet is one step closer to reality after the U.S. Senate last week earmarked $500,000 for the project. Though the dredging’s total cost is $157 million, port officials believe the Senate’s actions show the project
Rolls-Royce has won its largest contract for a single offshore vessel, which will also be the world
THE government yesterday paved the way for the eventual development of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, 20 miles off the Scottish coast. Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister, gave the green light to plans to build two giant wind turbines in the Beatrice Field in the Moray Firth in the first sta
Delivery Damen Double Hull Oil Tanker, yardnumber 9379, mts. ‘Solway’. Damen Shipyards Bergum delivered mts. ‘Solway Fisher’ on Friday 30-06-2006 to her principal James Fisher Shipping Ltd, England. The delivery took place at the Damen Yard, Galati, Romania.
