Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said yesterday it targets shipbuilding sales of 6.5 trillion won ($6.6 billion) this year, up 23 percent from 2005. The shipbuilder plans to continue focusing on technological development of high value-added vessels
At the start of the leg movistar held an early lead thanks to a bold easterly strategy that almost, but not quite worked. By staying east movistar was closest to the finish for a long time as the boats headed south and even when they started to turn to the east once they were down […]
Cunard Line has announced its 2006 winter cruise programme that features two epic Liner Voyages that will virtually circumnavigate South America. The new itineraries aboard the world-famous luxury liner Queen Mary 2 will feature a number of exciting maiden calls
Oil prices zoomed to a four-and-a-half month high above $68 a barrel Friday, rallying on supply fears tied to Iran’s tense diplomatic standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
ABUJA – Ethnic Ijaw leaders tried to secure the release of four foreign oil workers held by militants in Nigeria
The Department of the Navy has announced the naming of the Navy’s newest combat logistics force underway replenishment naval vessel, the USNS Alan Shepard, to honor the first American in space, Rear Adm. Alan B. Shepard Jr.
BATH, Maine – Unlike his predecessor, Navy Secretary Donald Winter is showing “strong leadership” when it comes to boosting the Pentagon’s shipbuilding budget and trying to increase the size of the Navy’s fleet, Sen. Olympia Snowe said Friday.
The military celebration Thursday, complete with the Navy Band New Orleans, marked the beginning of a new design for Navy ships.
The corporation currently has received hundreds of orders worth billions of US dollars, including orders made by customers from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the UK and German.
Surrounded by spectator boats, press and ABN AMRO supporters, a very relieved Mike Sanderson was at last able to raise his arms aloft at 0908 and 40 seconds GMT to acknowledge that he with his team aboard ABN AMRO ONE was the winner of Leg 2, Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06.
CAGLARY: Crude oil rose to a four-month high on concern supplies will be curtailed by political instability in Nigeria and a standoff between Iran and the US and its European allies over nuclear issues.
Thousands of spectators lined the river and hundreds of thousands more followed the whale’s progress on live television as it appeared unexpectedly in central London.
The boom in cruise ship holidays is making big financial waves here with a record number of luxury liners heading to New Zealand this summer, and they’re expected to generate $250 million worth of economic activity.
Who would have thought last March that in the ten months between emailing an application form and standing on the dock here in Melbourne today, that the handful of amateur sailors given their chance to sail around the world would celebrate being the fastest monohull crew on the planet?
