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Flanders Dredging Corporation (FDC), a fully owned subsidiary of Belgium' s Jan De Nul Group, has transformed praise from a strict Australian client into victory when its project at the Australian Marine…

The UK' s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report on its investigation into the loss of the tug Flying Phantom while towing the 76,596dwt bulk carrier Red Jasmine on the River Clyde…

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday urging states to commit naval and air forces to the fight against piracy off the coast of Somalia.

In view of the upcoming EU Energy Council meeting tomorrow, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has sent an open letter to French Energy Minister Borloo.

London' s unpredictable new Mayor, Boris Johnson, caused a stir last month by proposing Heathrow Airport be closed down and replaced by a new four runway facility operating 24 hours a day…

Seefalke, the first of two identical new innovative fisheries research boats is being handed over this month by the Peene-Werft yard in Wolgast to Germany' s Bonn based Federal Institute for Agriculture…

Following an international tender last year, Ireland' s Safehaven Marine, builders of the Interceptor range of pilot boats, was awarded the contract to supply an all weather pilot boat to the Port…

Two inshore RIBs have joined Dorset Polices Marine Section fleet to patrol the coast and rivers of Dorset   thanks to a new collaboration with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Low-carbon energy company Eclipse Energy UK has been granted government consent to enlarge its previously consented Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields…

The Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year when it returns to Amsterdam' s RAI exhibition centre on 18-20 November.

Offshore airport proposals for overcrowded northern Europe are suddenly very much in the news. London Mayor Boris Johnson' s proposal last month for an alternative to Heathrow on reclaimed land in the…

A company owned by the Danish Government is expected to be created soon to plan and construct the controversial EUR 5.8bn Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Germany and Denmark, which has finally…

A report published jointly by the UKs Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Maritime Administration of Latvia has found that the deaths earlier this year of two seafarers on board a Latvian…

A man was fined almost £ 2,500 last week for riding his jet ski at nine times the speed limit on Southampton Water, the marine equivalent of driving 230mph in a 30mph…

A tragic mystery involving a ship, a child star singer, her lovers, an illegitimate baby and a lot of money returned to the headlines last week after a gap of more than…

Passengers, researchers and crew on board P& Os cross channel ferry Pride of Bilbao enjoyed a rare treat at the weekend when a humpback whale was sited within the busy shipping lanes…