About 100 new jobs are being created with a move to Tyneside by Danish shipping giant Maersk. The company is transferring its ship management division from London’s Canary Wharf to Newcastle quayside.
General Maritime Corporation today announced it has taken delivery of the Genmar Harriet G, a 150,000 dwt double-hull Suezmax newbuilding.
KONGSBERG is to provide sophisticated cameras and sonar equipment for the NATO Submarine Rescue Vehicle and Remotely Operated Vehicle. The contract with Perry Slingsby Systems
Imtech N.V. (technical services provider in Europe ) announces the appointment of Harry Siertsema MSc. as Managing Director of Imtech Marine & Offshore per 1 March 2006.
AVEVA, a world- leading supplier of engineering IT solutions for the process, power, and marine industries, has announced it has signed a contract to provide its design and production solutions to New Century Shipbuilding (NCS).
Despite the ideal, fast reaching conditions in 20kts under masthead spinnakers crews aboard the VOR yachts have been reporting dismal conditions over the last few days.
The U.S. Navy will move two of its Seawolf-class submarines currently based in Connecticut to Washington state by next summer as it shifts defenses from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said Monday.
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The World Sailing Speed Council has ratified the record of Sebastien Josse and the nine-strong team aboard ABN Amro Two for the greatest distance sailed by a Monohull in 24 hours.
Nairobi – Somali gunmen hijacked an Indian-owned dhow off Somalia’s coast with 25 crew members aboard, a maritime official said on Monday.
Fresh global bids have been called for executing dredging operations in three sections of Sethusamudram project, according to T R Baalu, Union minister of shipping, road transport and highways.
Inge Steensland and Magne Morken from the Norwegian shipping company Solvang ASA, pushed the button of the computer-controlled plasma torch for the construction of the first out of a series of four gas tankers.
Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard), a unit of Keppel Corporation Limited through Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has delivered FPSO Capixaba, with a conversion contract value of over S$90 million.
Hoping to collect decades of data, ocean scientists are enlisting cargo and cruise ships to measure water temperatures, ocean currents and even the height of clouds as the vessels ply their regular routes.
