Key deals

The European Commission presented a comprehensive ten year strategy plan last month to promote safe, secure, clean and efficient shipping.

The Belgian contractor DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV), which includes Dredging International, has joined the jumbo trailing suction hopper dredger operators club by placing an order with IHC Merwede for…

You are a struggling port business manager who gets a bill for three and a half years of backdated unpaid rates. Not only this, the rates you think you have paid as…

There is so much interest in participating in Europort Istanbul 2009 that an extra hall has to be added to the exhibition area. The event from 25 to 28 March in the…

A lorry broke free of its lashings and crashed through the stern door of the ferry Stena Voyager last night as it was leaving the Scottish Port of Stranraer on passage to…

The British Government announced five shortlisted schemes this week to harness the tidal power in the Severn Estuary, the largest of which would cost at least £ 22bn.

The timber cargo that broke free from the  Russian vessel Sinegorsk in heavy seas earlier this week has started coming ashore on the Kent coast today.

The Port of London Authority celebrates its centenary this year and one of the planned highlights is a very special Gala Concert in London’ s Cadogan Hall, to be held on Saturday…

The largest ship ever to enter the Port of Liverpool berthed at the Tranmere Oil Terminal yesterday to discharge a new traffic of West African crude oil for the Shell Stanlow Refinery…

The ‘ green’ barge shuttling containers up the Manchester Ship Canal from the Port of Liverpool to the heart of the North West of England is now making a regular ‘ bus…

A 21st century pier for New Brighton inspired by a tea house and a chip shop has won the top award in a student contest to design a water feature for the…

The credit crunch may be having an adverse effect on almost every industry, including investment in ports and marine infrastructure, but recent investments by some of the biggest and best known names…

Ireland’ s Safehaven Marine is expanding its Wildcat catamaran range with a new 50ft/16m version aimed specifically at the wind farm market.

The credit crunch may be having an adverse effect on almost every industry, including investment in ports and marine infrastructure, but recent investments by some of the biggest and best known names…

It is only when we stop for a breath and look back over the 250 issues of Maritime Journal that it becomes obvious to what degree massive historic changes in the many…

Sea and Water, the promotional body for water freight transportation in and around the UK, has been renamed Freight by Water, the last act in the organisation’ s restructuring process which began…