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An innovative plan for a floating container port that could be located at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands could bring enormous benefits to Scotland’s economy.

After two years, one of the strangest and most worrying puzzles of recent times, the loss of Air France Flight 447, may be about to be solved with the finding of the…

English Heritage has issued a warning that action will be taken against anyone illegally accessing, damaging or removing items from protected historic wrecks.

The German Navy’s long serving military research auxiliary Schwedeneck is being converted into a modern, multi-purpose research ship at the Peene facility of P + S Werften in Wolgast.

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society is calling on members of the maritime community and air/sea rescue organisations across the UK to nominate their colleagues for their heroic acts of bravery at sea.

Liberal Democrat Northern Isles MSPs, Tavish Scott and Liam McArthur, have jointly responded to the UK Government’s consultation on the future of the Coastguard service.

The University of Rostock will soon take delivery of a €150,000 multi-purpose research boat, which will join a refurbished research cutter in biological research and training duties in the Baltic.

Hansestadt Rostock, the fourth and biggest passenger ferry in service with Rostock excursion operator Dieter Schütt, has gone into operation on the Warnow River in eastern Germany.

The Goliath crane ordered by Babcock for the final assembly of Britain’s new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers at Rosyth arrived at the dockyard last week.

Dutch towage and salvage specialist Multraship has undertaken the salvage of fishing trawler Nieuwpoort 28 (N28), which capsized off Dunkirk on 1 March.