The Eastern Pacific Yacht Club (EPYC) has announced the completion of the "Pacific Provider," a 160 foot luxury mothership. The $5.5 million dollar refit conversion began in Seattle last fall. The ship will leave for San Diego on May ...

  PerryGolf, a leading provider of international golf and luxury lifestyle travel experiences, has announced 2008 - 2009 sailing schedules onboard the luxurious private yacht Callisto. This year the 34 passenger yacht sails the Greek Islands and Turkey, Aug. ...

  N.Y. Liberty Teammates, Tiffany Jackson and Essence Carson, visited USS Kearsarge yesterday, after it arrived in Manhattan for Fleet Week New York, the City’s celebration of the sea services.  Jackson and Carson toured the ship and met with ...

  Glacier Fish Company LLC and Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (TYO:1332), through its wholly owned subsidiary Nippon Suisan (U.S.A.), Inc., has announced the signing of a comprehensive agreement to purchase Alaska Ocean Seafood LP (AOS). Nippon Suisan simultaneously agreed ...

  The MoD has taken another step towards the procurement of a new fleet of naval tankers to support the Royal Navy on operations worldwide. Baroness Taylor, Minister for Defence Equipment & Support, has provided Parliament with the details ...

  The Container Shipping Information Service (CSIS) tomorrow celebrates the launch of National Maritime Day and calls on consumers to imagine life without the many everyday items made available to them by the container shipping industry. In 1933, Congress ...

Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE:SAI) has announced it has been awarded a task order by Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane, Ind. Under the task order, SAIC will provide technical, engineering and data management services in support of the ...

Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Oslo Børs: SNI) has announced that James B. Hurlock has resigned as a Director of the Company, effective immediately. Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, Chairman of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. stated: "We thank Jim for his service as a Director of the ...

Port and longshore workers, truckers and others at Port Manatee today will begin to enroll in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. The program's goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access ...

Port and longshore workers, truckers and other maritime employees at the Port of Rochester began enrolling today in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. The program's goal is to ensure that any individual who ...

There will be cannon fire on the waterfront today and tomorrow in recognition of the dignitaries that will be attending the Ninth Coast Guard District Change of Command. The cannon will be loaded with blanks and no ammunition will enter Lake Erie. Cannon ...

  Mark Criddle, RNLI Coxswain at the Torbay lifeboat station has today (Wednesday 21 May) visited Tower lifeboat station in London, on the eve of the charity’s Annual Presentation of Awards. He was photographed onboard one of the E ...

With two men left paralysed after tombstoning on the May Day weekend, the RNLI is urging people to think twice before taking part in this treacherous activity and is offering crucial safety advice for the forthcoming May bank holiday. ...

Federal, state, local, non-governmental and private sector organizations will conduct a full scale exercise at the Port of Green Bay on  May 21, 2008 to practice, assess and improve the Lake Michigan Area Maritime Security Plan as well as ...

  Simrad, the undisputed leader in the world of sonar technology for the professional fishing market has developed a new, smaller hull unit for its Simrad SX90 sonar family. The new SX95 Hull Unit has been designed to offer ...

  QinetiQ Group plc, one of the world’s leading defence and security technology companies, is pleased to announce the appointment of David Mellors as Chief Financial Officer. It is anticipated that David will take up his new role with ...

OceanFreight Inc. (NASDAQ: OCNF), a global provider of marine transportation services, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Financial Highlights For the first quarter of 2008 the Company reported Net Income of $6.4 million ...

“They will always keep in mind that their countrymen are freemen, and, as such, are impatient of everything that bears the least mark of a domineering spirit. If obstacles occur, they will remember that they are under the particular ...

GE has announced that it is demonstrating new hybrid tugboat technology in cooperation with the C-MAR Group. GE’s hybrid tug propulsion system, which features its V228 or V250 medium-speed diesel engines, a battery, a generator, and control technologies, will ...

Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. (HEC) (OTCBB: HYEG.OB) announced today that it has appointed Jan Rowinski, Managing Partner Bay Stream Ventures Inc., to the Board of Directors of HEC Canada with immediate effect. Mr. Rowinski, age 55, has successfully led ...