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10th - 12th June 2025Speed@Seawork
9th June 2025Seawork Conferences
The 26th edition of Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition provides businesses the opportunity to showcase their services, equipment, vessels and supplies to an international audience. Speed@Seawork on 9th June in Cowes offers a sector specific event that showcases fast vessels operating at high speed for security interventions and Search & Rescue. "Get Set for Workboat 2050", in partnership with Seawork, Maritime Journal and The Workboat Association, is a series of conferences which deal with decarbonisation and all aspects of improving OPEX efficiencies. Visit the Seawork Website Speed@Seawork on the Seawork Website View on Seawork
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NewsMAIB report reveals safety concerns in Greenock tug sinking
The report raised critical marine safety issues, particularly regarding the limited training of marine pilots
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NewsMAIB issues flexible hose fire warning
MAIB is investigating the risks posed by flexible hoses after fire broke out on a cargo ship
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NewsSurvey vessel sinking report
The MAIB has published a report into the flooding and sinking of a survey workboat in British waters
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NewsUnexploded seabed bomb refuses to remain unexploded
For those of us who read (or write) updates in MJ about UXO (Unexploded ordinance) route surveys, and wonder what would actually happen if an old bomb ever got pulled up, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has some illuminating answers.
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NewsMAIB reports on tug boarding fatality
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its report on the investigation into an accident where a tug’s chief engineer lost his life boarding his vessel.
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NewsPilot fatalities: not easy reading
Sadly, there have now been not one but two pilot fatalities involving the boarding of smaller vessels inside a year Don Cockrill, Secretary-General of the United Kingdom Maritime Pilots'' Association (UKMPA) told ‘MJ’.
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News‘Transocean Winner’ grounding investigation released
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its report into the loss of tow and subsequent grounding of the semi-submersible rig ‘Transocean Winner’ in August 2016.
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NewsNWA safety forum provides sobering information
The UK’s National Workboat Association hosted a Safety Forum at Seawork 2017 entitled Towage: Reducing the Risks – Raising the Standards.
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NewsDuck tour woes
Following the 2014 Marine Accident Investigation Branch report into two amphibious DUKW accidents in the UK, the business model of using these 1940s military vehicles for city tours has taken a further broadside, this time from the insurance industry.
