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South Africa has ordered a euro116 million ($174 million) multipurpose icebreaker from STX Finland, the Finnish shipbuilder said Tuesday. It is scheduled to be delivered in 2012, and will be constructed at the Rauma yard in southwest Finland. The Polar...

Now, heartbeat cruiser is ready to serve you better than ever before. The ship is 65% complete and touched water for the first time this weekend when it was floated out of its dry dock at its birth place in...

Passengers aboard the MS Silja Europa -- the Baltic Sea's largest cruise ship -- got an extra day aboard after the ship's rudder broke, officials said. "At least we got our money's worth," passenger Jaakko Virtanen of Rauma, Finland, said....

Retirees have something else to look forward to besides playing golf -- much better sleep -- particularly if they have decent retirement benefits and retire relatively early. That's what Dr. Jussi Vahtera of the University of Turku in Finland and...

According to the results, the odds of having disturbed sleep in the seven years after retirement were 26 percent lower (adjusted odds ratio of 0.74) than in the seven years before retiring. Sleep disturbance prevalence rates among 14,714 participants fell...

Poor team spirit at the workplace may do more than drag down morale, it can make people depressed, according to the findings of a new study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. "As depressive disorders are a major...

Fain isn't just the chairman and chief executive of Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which owns Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship. He's also the chair man . ``Richard has sat in every chair on this ship,''...

South Korean shipbuilding giant STX is cutting 351 jobs in France through voluntary departures at the historic Saint-Nazaire shipyard, company officials said on Friday. The yard employs around 2,410 people and has received no new orders for civilian vessels since...