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Regular container handling began in the German Port of Kiel last month with the arrival in the port’ s Ostuferhafen of the first one hundred 20ft containers from Riga on board the…

With the spill industry offering more prevention, better response and serving wider markets across Europe and the world, the need for a platform to demonstrate the strengths of the industry and to…

Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group  has the  biggest dredging vessels  in the world in its fleet. The very large self-propelled seagoing rock cutter dredgers JFJ De Nul, Leonardo da Vinci and…

Trinity House, the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Isles and Gibraltar, is about to commission its first LED Light Vessel (LV), set for duty on the Varne station in…

The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team,…

‘ Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, said EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, at the opening session of the European Wind…

The UK’ s Maritime & Coastguard Agency was advised last Friday by its helicopter contractor CHC that all four Coastguard S92 helicopters operating out of Stornoway and Shetland have been grounded pending…

The German Port of Hamburg achieved record results last year for internal waterway shipping, with container transport by environmentally friendly inland vessels growing by a dramatic 29%.

With a high percentage of the worlds dredging fleet and ancillary workboats filling the region in recent years it is surprising that the Arabian Gulf has not had its own dedicated workboat…

Germanys Nordseewerke (NSW) Shipyard has launched Helgoland, the first of two unique 50m SWATH offshore patrol vessels for international Customs service in the German Bight and North Sea.

The Port of London Authority (PLA) is celebrating a century of responsibility for the tidal Thames this year and the Museum of London Docklands is supporting its centenary with an exhibition titled…

The Fluor Corporations UK division, Fluor Limited, and Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy, have been granted an exclusivity award by The Crown Estate to develop an offshore…

Specialist German newbuilds are in the news this month with one due for delivery, another launched and a third awaiting official approval.