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Italy has cut planned funding for offshore-wind infrastructure at two ports that had been earmarked to become floating offshore wind hubs. The allocation for the ports of Taranto and Augusta has been slashed €78.3m to €38.3m, prompting criticism but also…

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Italy halves funding for two offshore-wind hubs

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After five years transporting 750,000 passengers on a hybrid catamaran, Mundo Marino technical director David de Haro talks to Maritime Journal about the pros and cons of the technology.

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Operational review: Five years of running a hybrid passenger catamaran

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[caption id="attachment_259134" align="alignleft" width="410"] X18s by XoceanSource: LinkedIn[/caption] The Marine Accident Investigation Branch has completed its probe into a collision between a Crew Transfer Vessel and Uncrewed Surface Vessel that happened last…

Yesterday

MAIB completes CTV and USV collision probe

Yesterday

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One of the Port of Leith’s three massive caisson gates has undergone major refurbishment as part of an eight-yearly maintenance programme designed to keep vessels moving safely through the locked harbour. The…

Yesterday

Before and after: Major maintenance completed on port gates

Yesterday

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A 56-metre replica of a 17th-century Dutch East India Company vessel has arrived at Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) for a specialist preservation project to put her on permanent display. The Batavia was…

Yesterday

Specialist works on show for special historic vessel replica

Yesterday

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There’s no point in waiting around, the founder and chief executive of the rapidly growing group Balaena believes, insisting that in just five months’ time, a company that has already quadrupled its…

22nd September 2026

Midas touch? Balaena CEO on his company’s rapid growth

22nd September 2026

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After years of developing the technology and infrastructure needed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes and store it permanently underground, the European Union has its first full-scale CCS project in operation.…

22nd September 2026

First full-scale CCS subsea store in Europe opens

22nd September 2026

MARINE RENEWABLES

MARINE RENEWABLES

Neptun Smulders Offshore Renewables (NSORe) and Siemens Energy have won a €2.5 billion contract to build and install an offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The converter will be connected…

21st September 2026

€2.5 billion contract signed for offshore converter platform

21st September 2026

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‘Economic factors’ have led Forth Ports to axe plans for a ferry link that would have reopened the only service between Scotland and Europe. In November last year, the Scottish government said…

21st September 2026

Proposals scrapped for Scotland’s only ferry link to Europe

21st September 2026

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new dedicated handling, storage and assembly operation for wind turbine components has been commissioned at the Port of Antwerp, adding capacity for a market facing growing demand for specialist infrastructure and…

21st September 2026

Antwerp changes port set-up to handle wind turbines

21st September 2026

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Two of the offshore wind industry’s engineering heavyweights are joining forces to tackle one of the sector’s biggest challenges: how to keep an increasingly large and ageing fleet of offshore turbines operating…

21st September 2026

Two engineering giants join forces in offshore wind maintenance

21st September 2026