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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…

The UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, spoke at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi last week to highlight the UK’s leading role in meeting…