Features & Videos

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Offshore wind capacity around the world is exploding in size as different territories set stringent renewable energy goals. 

5th September 2023

Decarbonisation: How far have we got?

5th September 2023

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Maritime Journal editor Debbie Mason talks to North Star chief technology officer James Bradford about offshore charging plans, vessel building, the exorbitant and potentially prohibitive cost of batteries, and other challenges facing…

5th September 2023

PODCAST: Interview with North Star CTO James Bradford

5th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

There’s a welter of interest in methanol as a marine fuel, but how does it line up for workboats, and tugs in particular?

30th August 2023

Special feature: Deep dive into methanol, Part 1

30th August 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

With the global offshore wind-energy market predicted to reach 240GW by 2030 (and double that by 2040), turbines and other infrastructure will become an ever more commonplace fixture on the horizon.

29th August 2023

OPINION: Targetless DP is the way forward offshore

29th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Hamburg Port Authority will begin work on replacing its cruise centre (Hafen City) with a modern new terminal on several floors.

23rd August 2023

WATCH: Hamburg reveals major port revamp

23rd August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following a decline in shipbuilding over the past century, the UK government has launched a National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh Plan to boost the industry. Part of this is the UK Shipbuilding Credit…

23rd August 2023

Has UK shipbuilding been given a boost?

23rd August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pictures of ships arriving at ports, their container stacks collapsed with boxes leaning precariously over the side of the vessel, makes for good copy and often attracts the attention of the world’s…

17th August 2023

Putting container losses into perspective

17th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Designs have been completed for a vessel that will be twice the size of the world’s current largest cable-lay vessel, Prysmian’s Leonardo da Vinci.

7th August 2023

World largest cable-layer for £20 billion subsea project

7th August 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

After some three decades in the British Royal Navy, Commodore Mel Robinson, the first woman to lead the Maritime Reserves, is stepping away from the role. She talks to Maritime Journal about a career…

27th July 2023

PODCAST: Commodore Mel Robinson, CBE ADC Royal Navy

27th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

The changing shape of tugs and workboats to take on multiple roles is becoming a feature of new designs. 

27th July 2023

Multipurpose is the name of the game

27th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Seawork award winner Frog Environmental is offering a sound protection system for underwater piling works with very healthy side effects.

26th July 2023

Bubbles breathe life into troubled waters

26th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pilot decisions were ‘not in line with best marine practice’ when the Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal more than two years ago, a report has finally concluded.

11th July 2023

Pilot errors caused ‘Ever Given’ grounding – report

11th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

What would you say to a 24 passenger CTV that could reach a top speed of 52 knots – but could be run in economy mode at 40kn drinking only 11.4 litres…

11th July 2023

Aircat CTV design promises comfort and efficiency

11th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In the week following Seawork 2023, Southampton laid out the red carpet again as one well-known local marine logistics company celebrated its 50th birthday.

11th July 2023

​Champagne corks pop at Peters & May

11th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Danish firms Ørsted and ESVAGT have agreed to build a second methanol-powered offshore service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farms off the UK east coast, where Ørsted has a 10-year contract to…

6th July 2023

Ørsted announces second methanol-powered SOV

6th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Growing murmurs on how the rapidly increasing size of offshore wind turbines is not sustainable do not appear to have been heard by the Chinese.

4th July 2023

China develops world’s biggest offshore turbine

4th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The “Channelling the Green Deal for Venice” project seeks to address the problem of limited nautical accessibility to the ports of Venice and Chioggia.

3rd July 2023

Works needed to keep Venice ports accessible

3rd July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Shares of Siemens Energy slumped by 37% after CEO Christian Bruch admitted to massive problems in the wind turbine side of the company – Siemens Gamesa – and scrapped the firm’s 2023…

27th June 2023

Siemens Energy value slumps on turbine failures

27th June 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The US moves ahead with its first commercial offshore wind farm.

22nd June 2023

Video: First US offshore wind farm underway

22nd June 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The dangers of lithium battery fires and a lack of awareness of how to deal with them has been brought under the spotlight again, with suggestions that regulations will soon be needed…

22nd June 2023

In the spotlight: lithium battery fire risk

22nd June 2023