All 10 yachts in the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race have been diverted to Subic Bay in the Philippines for keel inspection following discovery of loose keel bolts on seven of the 10 Clipper 68 yachts.
Ericsson, fourth placed in Saturday
Timmerman Yachts announces a new contract to build a 45-meter motor yacht. The contract had been signed on the last day of 2005 and was likely to become the best possible New Year present both to the shipyard staff and to the family members of the future yacht owner.
CHINA has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-biggest shipbuilding country in terms of orders, the Takungpao said.
South Korean shipbuilders’ 2005 exports rose 15 percent from a year earlier on the back of deliveries of high-value-added ships, an industry association said Sunday.
The smell of oily smoke reached the passenger deck of the Alsalam Boccaccio 98, and engineering student Isra Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman asked the crew what was amiss. Ben Curtis, Associated PressTwo survivors of the Egyptian ferry sinking leave an Egyptian naval vessel Saturday.
The vessel was built in Sunderland in 1864 Hopes that a ship built on the River Wear could return to the north-east of England after almost 140 years have finally been scuppered.
Indignation is growing over the circumstances under which a passenger ship sank in the Red Sea last week. Critics of the government have questioned the ship
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has started dredging of Patuakhali river channel but launch operators say this will not improve navigability of the river.
This week crews at the the Santa Cruz harbor will begin dredging the upper harbor, an annual effort to clear the channel.
Survivors of a ferry sinking that has claimed hundreds of lives say there was a fire aboard the aging vessel.
A high tide and the nudging and pulling of three tugboats combined to refloat a beached oil tanker at Nikiski early Friday, averting what could have been a risky operation to transfer its cargo of nearly 5 million gallons of petroleum onto other vessels.
Devon Energy Corp. has awarded Transocean Inc.’s fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Discovery a minimum three-year contract for drilling operations offshore Brazil.
Hay Shipyards A.S. has invested $350 million in the Yumurtalik Free Trade Zone ahead of the completion of the Samsun-Ceyhan and Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipelines that will draw more than 1 million barrels of oil a day through the region.
