The French warship Clemenceau, once the pride of France’s navy, is back in its home port of Brest, five months after heading to India to be scrapped. The French government was forced to recall the aircraft carrier because Indian workers refused to deal with the hazardous asbestos in its hulk. The is
A KEY player in a failed attempt to reshape the UK’s naval shipyards yesterday said it still harboured hopes of leading a restructuring of the industry. VT Group, the owner of the Portsmouth dockyard, lined up alongside BAE Systems on a
Overnight ABN AMRO ONE inched away from everyone except the Pirates of the Caribbean who, by the 0400GMT managed to take 16 miles off the leader. But that all stopped by the 1000GMT poll and in fact they went backwards, losing 27 miles in the last six hours. At the back of the fleet things […
VT Group is pressing ahead with plans to merge its warship building activities with those of BAE Systems after the failure of the two companies to pull off a takeover of the rival naval business Babcock. Paul Lester, VT’s chief executive, denied the collapse of the Babcock bid had put the company on
Those seeking electrical and instrumentation systems in the floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) segment may benefit from an alliance between Emerson Process Management and W
St. Petersburg’s Severnaya Verf shipyard Tuesday launched a new surface ship for the Russian navy. The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and being built at the shipyard. Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin said at th
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Reviving the name of Evergreen’s very first full containership, Chang Kuo-Cheng (K C Chang), Evergreen Group’s Vice Group Chairman, launched the 7024 TEU Ever Spring in Kobe, Japan, on 17 May, She is due for delivery in August 2006 and is scheduled to enter service on the WAE pendulum service linkin
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Deepwater West, Ltd. (Esso), has drilled an oil discovery in Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 214, approximately 70 miles (113 kilometers) offshore Nigeria. The Uge-1 discovery well was drill
Overnight the wind slowly backed from east of north to west and increased slightly, releasing the fleet from their hell of windward work
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Deepwater Petroleum Limited, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation has announced the commencement of hull keel laying for its Agbami project
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder, posted its fourth-consecutive quarterly profit Monday on increased orders for more expensive ships. Net income totaled 22.9 billion won, or $24.4 million, in the three months ended March 31, compared with a loss of 88.95 billion won in the s
Oman has ordered two multipurpose passenger-vehicle catamaran ferries at a cost of $66m from Australian shipbuilding firm Austal, according to the Oman Daily Observer. Each 213-foot vessel has the capacity to carry 203 passengers and 56 cars. They will be used to provide a tourist service for trips
