Features & Videos

VESSELS

VESSELS

Viking Life-Saving Equipment is expanding its presence in the fast craft sector, using Seawork 2026 to showcase its high-performance RHIB design capabilities.

30th June 2026

Viking raids fast craft market with battle-ready RHIBs

30th June 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Europe’s largest port has rejected demands from a Dutch legal climate campaigning charity that it sets out a plan to bring an end to the use of fossil fuels.

29th June 2026

Port of Rotterdam rejects call for fossil fuel phase-out

29th June 2026

SPECIAL REPORTS

SPECIAL REPORTS

Half a century after South Africa pioneered state-funded emergency towing vessels, debate continues over whether governments or commercial operators should finance rapid maritime rescue and pollution prevention services.

29th June 2026

Emergency rescue towing: who should shoulder the cost when ships founder?

29th June 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

When Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm was commissioned off Great Yarmouth in 2004, few could have predicted that one of its greatest operational challenges would emerge not from the turbines themselves, but…

25th June 2026

Amphibious Walrus opens access to stranded turbines

25th June 2026

FEATURES & VIDEOS

FEATURES & VIDEOS

A deep-tech company says it has used to AI to design a Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) that could save 100,000 litres of fuel a year compared with a conventional vessel.

24th June 2026

AI takes the helm – but naval architects are staying on the bridge

24th June 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The removal of the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse combined heavy lifting, diamond wire cutting and real-time engineering adaptation to deliver one of Britain’s most technically demanding marine decommissioning projects, offering lessons for a…

24th June 2026

Royal send-off for a decommissioned lighthouse

24th June 2026

OPINION

OPINION

Few sectors are under as much pressure to clean up as shipping. The IMO’s emissions targets – a 40% reduction in carbon intensity by 2030 and net zero by 2050 – are…

24th June 2026

Hybrid propulsion will dominate marine electrification: Opinion

24th June 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

As shipping faces mounting pressure to decarbonise, exhaust after-treatment specialist Eminox says the marine industry must remain realistic about what can be achieved in the short to medium term, and use cleaner…

23rd June 2026

Bridging the gap: After-treatment keeps shipping afloat

23rd June 2026

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

As the electric vessels market gathers pace, ferries are at the forefront of the transition and in answer to the demand, Lehmann Marine has pledged to expand its maritime operations in the…

22nd June 2026

Lehmann looks to supercharge presence in electric vessels market

22nd June 2026

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Marine operations specialists at the Port of Southampton have completed a complex shiphandling operation to bring the first two of four new ship-to-shore container cranes safely alongside DP World’s Southampton terminal.

19th June 2026

UK’s tallest quay cranes at Port of Southampton

19th June 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

A Svitzer tug’s wheelhouse windows have been smashed in the second incident of its nature in five years, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has reported.

19th June 2026

Tug wheelhouse glass smashes in 2 similar incidents

19th June 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The world’s first commercial shipping-scale tunnel has been signed off, with the contractor due to be announced once final approvals have been given this Friday.

17th June 2026

Norway confirms start of unique ship tunnel construction

17th June 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Plans to set up ‘offshore power zones’ to enable vessels to charge at sea have been revealed in a white paper just published.

16th June 2026

‘Offshore Power Zones’ plans revealed to ease port pressure

16th June 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

A new European partnership aims to help shipowners across six segments modernise ageing vessels more quickly, safely and cost-effectively, as pressure grows to improve operational efficiency and prepare fleets for future regulatory…

16th June 2026

European partners target faster retrofits and fleet upgrades

16th June 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

Seawork’s 2026 programme was packed with sessions, but few offered as direct a line into commercial vessel buyers’ thinking as the ‘Meet the Buyers’ session jointly organised by the Workboat Association and…

16th June 2026

Meet the buyers: What commercial marine suppliers need to know

16th June 2026

FEATURES & VIDEOS

FEATURES & VIDEOS

It would be impossible to get round every stand at Seawork, so we just picked a handful of a few different companies to present a picture of the diversity within marine in…

15th June 2026

Around the stands at Seawork 2026

15th June 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

A record-breaking Speed@Seawork held on the Isle of Wight on Monday unveiled the strongest show of boats yet, reports Jake Frith.

9th June 2026

Strongest sea trials ever at Speed@Seawork

9th June 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

Europe’s commercial marine and workboat sector will gather in Southampton next week as Seawork 2026 opens its doors on a record-breaking edition of the long-running exhibition.

5th June 2026

THIS WEEK: Europe’s biggest on-water commercial marine show

5th June 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A new white paper from maritime classification society DNV has revealed startlingly low global uptake of shore power, despite years of industry optimism about its potential.

4th June 2026

Shore power uptake will need stick not carrot – DNV

4th June 2026

FEATURES & VIDEOS

FEATURES & VIDEOS

With two new heavy-duty marine engines and an industry-leading remote diagnostics platform now ready for production, Seawork Premium exhibitor and Platinum Sponsor John Deere Power Systems is making its biggest R&D investment in…

2nd June 2026

John Deere to launch two engines developed in parallel

2nd June 2026