Pirates get the best start hard on the wind, they get the jump on the fleet, Brasil 1 and ABN AMRO ONE get a god start for a change. Pirates seem to be going the best. Ericsson seem to be off the pace at the moment.
With the significant progress made on the establishment of Durrat Al Bahrain, the Kingdom’s largest planned residential, leisure and tourist resort, the Kingdom’s coastline is being transformed as the 20 sq km island paradise takes shape.
Shipyard workers who face losing their jobs will petition the Paris and New Delhi governments in an effort to ensure a toxic French warship is broken up in an Indian yard, campaign organisers said yesterday.
The cost of making HMCS Chicoutimi seaworthy again is expected to reach $100 million, a Halifax newspaper reported yesterday.
Chinese rescuers today saved two survivors and salvaged four bodies from a Panamanian freighter that sank in rough seas off eastern China.
When you step aboard the USS Salem, you won’t have to give way to presidents or kings and queens or the like. They’ve already been there.
Construction of the biggest diesel engine manufacturing factory in Vietnam was kicked off on February 16 at the An Hong Industrial Zone in the northern port city of Haiphong.
The American cruise operator Celebrity Cruises, an affiliated company of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., has ordered another large cruise vessel from Meyer Werft in Papenburg.
Ferretti Group, a world leader in the engineering and manufacturing of luxury motor yachts and sport boats, announced that its new Ferretti Yachts Model 550 has met National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) Yacht Certification Standards.
The Indian shipping companies are on a shopping spree. Essar Shipping has bought a very large crude carrier (VLCC) from a Japanese shipping company estimated to cost around Rs 540 crore.
A museum, a 6,000-book library and a conservatory will feature on Cunard’s new 90,000-tonne liner Queen Victoria, it has been revealed.
Construction of a shipyard, specialising in building ships for special purposes, began on Feb. 16 in Nhan Trach district, southern Dong Nai province.
The Bush administration dismissed the security concerns of local officials yesterday and restated its approval of a deal that will give a company based in Dubai a major role in operating ports in and around New York City.
All 37 sailors on board a cargo ship are missing after the vessel sank late Thursday night after striking a reef on the sea near Dongjia island in east China, official sources said.
