The nearly 5,000 employees of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will find out in four weeks whether the facility will be named to the federal base closure list. Officials at the shipyard said that closing the base would have a tremendous impact on the area. Employee Paul O’Connor said that workers remai
Yachting New Zealand has received record entries for the annual Youth Sail 2005 Regatta which gets underway this Thursday, April 21. Results will determine the selection of the 2005 Yachting New Zealand Youth Team to go to the ISAF World Youth Championships in Korea in July.
The Borneo Cup Yachting Challenge 2005 – the second sailing regatta in the South China Sea once again takes place between Labuan island and Miri, Sarawak’s upcoming resort city. It will kick off from the marina of Labuan Waterfront Hotel tomorrow, after the Labuan Harbour Regatta which is scheduled
New York – A cruise ship struck by a freak seven-storey-high wave that smashed windows and sent furniture flying returned to New York Harbour on Monday and docked at its berth on the Hudson River. The Norwegian Dawn arrived with more than 2 000 passengers still on board after about 300 others decide
Norwegian authorities on Friday ordered the Eirik Raude to remain shut down until the cause of its third spill into ecologically fragile Arctic waters since February has been investigated. The rig, owned by the Ocean Rig group and drilling for the Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA, was voluntarily s
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is the more vulnerable of Maine’s two military bases, according to the consensus of defense experts. It’s the Navy’s lead maintenance shipyard for the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered submarine, a fast and nimble boat that forms the bulk of the Navy’s nuclear-po
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s second-largest shipbuilder, won orders valued at $850 million from Germany for 10 container ships.Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries SA, the Romanian unit, received orders from Hamburg Sud for six vessels able to carry 5,200 standard 20-foot co
Wang Chaoyong, chairman of China Equity Investment and Xavier de Lesquen, co-founder of Le Defi, a French Sports management company, plan to set up a joint venture that will open the way for China to participate in the America’s Cup for the first time in 2007. The leading Chinese venture capital inv
Following an agreement reached between Qeshm Free Trade Zone and United Arab Emirate
Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker beat former boss Russell Coutts in the final of the Congressional Cup in California yesterday in their first encounter since the disastrous America
The Borneo Cup Yachting Challenge 2005 is the first truly International yachting event to be held off Borneo’s northwestern shores. A joint effort by two East Malaysian States of Sarawak and the Federal Territory of Labuan to hold sporting tourism events that showcase what their magnificent region h
Another ship designed exclusively for younger cruise holiday passengers is to come into service next year. Ocean Village
Gulf Maritime 2005, the Middle East’s premier exhibition and conference for the commercial, government and military maritime trade, will get under way at Expo Centre Sharjah on Monday, April 18, 2005. Held under the Patronage of Sharjah Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Bin Su
The Port of Olympia reported its first operating profit in eight years last year. The $825,061 profit is cited in a new report to commissioners comparing last year’s financial results with 2003. The port’s growing marine terminal is the major reason the port made money, according to the report. The
