A ship which has been detained in a Cornish port for more than 10 weeks has set sail. The Panamanian-registered ship Saruna, which is 28 years old, had been moored off Falmouth docks since 28 January.
Stimson Yachts and Carbon Index, both based in Cowes in the UK, are collaborating to design, build and promote a new range of high performance semi-custom RIBs, suitable for a wide variety of functions, from workboat to superyacht tender.
At least 36 people were killed when their boat capsized in a storm on Lake Victoria last week, officials in Tanzania said.
Ellen MacArthur and her crew of four crossed the finish line off the coast of Qingdao, China to complete Leg 3 of the Asian Record Circuit at 09:04:46 GMT today setting record number 4 in a time of 1 day, 2 minutes and 53 seconds.
One look at the tracks of the boats on Virtual Spectator or, for us at race HQ a look at the Race Manager system, shows that speeds have been up and down and boats have been gybing from east to west and back again as they attempt to find a consistent breeze.
Squalls, calms, clouds, rain, just about everything in the weather panoply apart from snow and gales have hit the fleet. Jennifer Lilly explains why clouds are bad.
Dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster nv expects to acquire the dredging fleet and dredging activities of the Dutch company D. Blankevoort International Dredging Company.
A Quebec-based cruise company is planning to offer a new route with stops around Atlantic Canada. Transboreale Cruise is negotiating with ports from Montreal to Sydney as part of its plan to offer two cruises a month in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Ten warships, two submarines including the French nuclear sub Saphir, 60 aircrafts and over 5000 sailors are participating in these exercises.
Ha Noi (VNA) – The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) will launch a 53,000 tonne-capacity vessel, the largest ever built in Viet Nam, in northern coastal Quang Ninh province on April 6.
After years of meager shipbuilding budgets, the Navy promises to go on a spending spree, buying 51 ships over the next five years. Annual ship construction funding would roughly double, jumping from $8.7 billion next year to $17.4 billion in 2011.
Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL) of Kuwait have awarded Damen the shipbuilding contract to construct and deliver a 52 meter Wave Piercing Catamaran.
The FBI has failed to rank U.S. seaports based on the likelihood of terrorist attacks, nor does it always use that basis when assigning agents who specialize in maritime security, according to a Justice Department report.
The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) has recorded a marginal rise in traffic handling during 2005-06. The port has handled 34.45 million tonnes during the year as against 33.89 million tonnes handled during the previous year, a growth of 1.65 per cent, P Tamilvanan, chairman of NMPT said.
