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The explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialist Ramora UK has safely disposed of an unexploded World War II mine at one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms.

The UK’s Humber region was awarded ‘enterprise zone’ status on Wednesday, creating significant financial incentives for new renewable energy businesses.

The huge midsection of the UK’s first Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier has left BAE Systems’ shipyard at Govan for Rosyth, where the aircraft carrier will be assembled.

The first of four novel 19.6m monohull pilot tenders, which officials have said are particularly suited for local conditions, is now in test service in the Ems, Elbe and North Sea.

South Boats Special Projects Ltd has reached agreement with the administrators of Lyme Boats Ltd to purchase the assets of the former boat building company.

German waterway authorities in Nuremberg have taken the new Danish built multi-purpose workboat Hecht into service for a wide range of water works on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.

Offshore wind farms are currently the largest construction projects in Europe according to the European Wind Energy Association in its offshore wind energy statistics for the first half year of 2011.

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced the 37th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation will take place on 24 - 28 October 2011 in Singapore.

The General Lighthouse Authorities for the UK and Ireland unveiled the marine Aids to Navigation (AtoN) strategy, ‘2025 and Beyond’ in a presentation at Trinity House in London on Monday.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) have, separately, each published their review of maritime accidents in 2010.

DEME’s brand new mega dredger Congo River was named at Zeebrugge on July 8 by the Belgian tennis champion Justine Henin and was working on its first job only six days later…

The introduction of both the EU Directive and subsequent UK legislation on sulphur reduction and the concomitant increase in biofuel content resulted in a challenge for commercial and leisure vessels in coastal…

The newly launched Gosport Marine Skills Centre on the UK’s south coast has come about in next to no time, perhaps because there’s such need to see it work.

A new trend is making the rising incidence of piracy in the waters off Somalia even more disturbing.

The UK Government has partially backtracked on its radical plans to slash coastguard services, with Transport Secretary Philip Hammond telling the House of Commons that 10 centres would remain open 24 hours…

Londoners were able to witness history in the making yesterday as the world’s last remaining steam coaster made its return to the Royal Docks.

The Barge Driving Race on the River Thames has been run annually since1975 and this year’s event saw 11 lighters (or punts) being rowed with the flood tide from Greenwich to Westminster.

The largest lift capacity crane in Britain completed commissioning last week at Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard.

The UK Government has laid draft regulations to cancel the unfair backdated business rate bills faced by many port based businesses across England.

Europe is home to the most efficient Port Community Systems in the world and will play a vital role in the EC’s aspirations for trade facilitation through a ‘Single Window’, say new…