Tales of swashbuckling pirates seizing ships on the high seas are the stuff of folklore and children’s stories – real piracy has a human and financial cost, as one former naval captain knows only too well.
Moves to float a restored Nelson-era tall ship to a new temporary berth have succeeded at the second attempt.
In connection with phase two of the Vigdis extension project, operator Statoil has awarded contracts to FMC Kongsberg, Saipem and Stolt Offshore.
At a press conference held in the Volvo Ocean Race village on Thursday afternoon, the skippers and navigators of the seven boats expressed their views on the upcoming In Port race on Saturday.
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) failed to complete dredging of the 20km long channel from Baghabari river port to Mohanganj in a month, which was scheduled to be completed within 15 days.
AUSTRALIA’s second export LNG (liquefied natural gas) project has commenced operations with the arrival of a carrier in Darwin to load the first cargo from ConocoPhillips’s Wickham Point plant.
French rescue workers were hoping to tow the vessel to Le Havre, in France, before it went down in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
According to Team movistar the heavier weight of the stainless rams in relation to the titanium ones they’ve replaced, has forced the team to shed some weight off the bulb to meet the Volvo Open 70 Rule.
To cope with the bulging container traffic on the 22.5-km-long main harbour channel shared by both the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), MbPT will be sharing the channel deepening costs with JNPT.
Keppel AmFELS has received a fifth order from Scorpion Offshore (Scorpion) for a jackup rig valued at US$143 million.
MANCHESTER judge was at the centre of a passenger revolt on the world’s largest cruise ship. Hundreds of passengers aboard the Queen Mary 2 had threatened mutiny after damage to the ship prevented any stops for nearly two weeks.
The abundance of big tankers, the so-called very large crude carriers (VLCCs) of some 300,000 deadweight tons, makes several analysts express reservations about the projected revenues of the category this year.
National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., a subsidiary of General Dynamics, announced Tuesday it has received a contract option from the U.S. Navy to build an additional ship under the T-AKE program, a new class of combat logistics force ships.
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $9 million modification to an existing contract for submarine modernization and related work at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics .
