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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…

The world’s first hybrid fuel cell propulsion passenger ship, Alsterwasser, is back in service on Hamburg’s rivers after being out of action for more than a year because of a fire.

With 20 to 25% of an offshore wind farm’s capital expenditure sunk into its foundations, offshore wind foundation costs threaten to explode as offshore wind farms move into deeper waters, further from…

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in the UK is reminding developers of the need to obtain a licence before carrying out removals from the seabed including benthic grab sampling and vibrocore surveys.

Preparations for the opening of North Europe’s biggest new maritime museum are well underway in Estonia with the world’s oldest in the water submarine having been lifted to land.

A new three year research project, ‘Low carbon shipping – a systems approach’, has been launched to help the shipping industry reduce levels of emissions in order to comply with new legislation…

Rotterdam Port Authority (RPA) has given an upbeat assessment of future prospects with the publication of its long term strategy.

The UK is on a “dangerous course” said Mark Dickinson, general secretary of Nautilus International in a talk at the Houses of Parliament last month.

Changes to the standards for marine diesel fuels have been causing anxiety and some confusion throughout the industry.

Belfast marked the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the citys most famous creations, RMS Titanic, on 31st May 2011.

Big demand for special functions on the Rhine motivated the building of the €10m multi-function event ship RheinFantasie, whose owners have this time plumped for a monohull newbuild instead of a second…

Seaweeds and micro-algae have been receiving increasing interest and investment over recent years, and may at some point become one of the UK’s established marine industries.

Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, visited Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull late last month to see for himself the proposed Green Port…

Bodewes Binnenvaart bv (part of the Damen Shipyards Group) has pioneered a unique way of meeting increasingly strict environmental standards while simultaneously saving on fuel costs - ACES.

Netherlands based specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede acquired vessel equipment supplier Hytech on Tuesday, further securing its position in the offshore market.