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Seawork exhibitor Meercat Workboats Ltd is gearing up to deliver an expanded range of craft to shorter lead times following the move of their production facility to the historic No5 Boat Shop…

The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left…

The second of two 49.35m SWATH ships for German Customs has entered service after completion at the Nordseewerke Shipyard in Emden.

A project to map offshore renewable energy potential around the coast of South West England was announced last week.

The Marine (Scotland) Bill (the Scottish Bill) is now at stage three of the parliamentary process, writes Rosie O’Donnell, an Associate in the Shipping Transport team of Brodies LLP, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the…

Two brothers and former Royal Marines who are planning an ocean challenge fundraiser in support of The Parkinsons Disease Society move closer to departure with the scheduled delivery of their boat this…

Over 500 suppliers of the latest technology and service developments covering every element of marine science and ocean technology will gather next month for Oceanology International 2010, being held at ExCeL in…

Britains last steam tug-tender, ‘Daniel Adamson’, has got the crucial go ahead to operate from Liverpool Cruise Liner Terminal.

Multraship Salvage and SVITZER Salvage have refloated the Russian flag cargo ship Irtysh 1 after it had ran aground on the rocky coastline off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast near Bourgas.

A TITAN Salvage team is working in Haiti to remove navigational hazards following the devastating earthquake, including the collapsed Washington gantry crane, in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), in an…

UK Transport group Stagecoach trialled an innovative amphibious bus which can operate on both water and roads on the River Clyde on Monday.

HMS Illustrious arrived at Rosyth on Monday in preparation for a 13 month docking period to start next month, in a £40m contract awarded under the Surface Ship Support Alliance (the alliance…

The European Commission gave its green light last week for public financing from France and Spain to the Fres Mos project. It will link the French port of Nantes-Saint Nazaire with the…

Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul continued its major fleet expansion on Saturday with the launch of the cutter suction dredger Zheng He at the Uljanik Brodogradiliste d.d. Shipyard in Pula, Croatia.

Five years after Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System (IPS) was launched, Estonian shipyard Baltic Workboats will design and build a 16m fast pilot boat equipped with twin IPS1050 units.

Some 1,200 tons of Pulverised Fuel Ash (PFA) from Yorkshire’s Drax Power Station in the UK was carried for its entire journey by water freight late last month in a trial which…

The Crowley Maritime Corporation, working under contract with the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), unloaded Haiti relief cargo in Rio Haina, Dominican Republic last week. Fifty-six of the 68 20foot containers loaded with…