Marine Civils

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ancora Group has made its first purchase since being formed last year, adding marine engineering specialist Red7Marine in a move that expands the group’s offshore capability.

1st June 2026

Ancora expands marine civils reach with Red7Marine buy

1st June 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Few cities witness the arrival of a 3,000-tonne bridge deck by river. But in Nantes, residents watched as a steel span 150 metres long and eight storeys high was floated into position…

27th May 2026

Engineers use tide as a tool to install city bridge

27th May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

One of the largest floating docks in the Baltic Sea is being built at Poland’s Wulkan Shipyard, where two sections have now been launched by Norwegian offshore services company BOA.

27th May 2026

Floating dock on track to becoming Baltic Sea’s biggest

27th May 2026

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Next Geosolutions has secured a contract worth approximately €9 million from TenneT to deliver marine survey activities for the offshore wind area Voordelta – Nederwiek 3 in the Netherlands.

22nd May 2026

NextGeo wins TenneT survey deal

22nd May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Belfast Harbour has announced a £1.3 billion (€1.5 billion) spending programme that will reshape the city’s port infrastructure over the next 25 years, with major engineering projects aimed at expanding freight capacity,…

22nd May 2026

Belfast Harbour Masterplan looks to new horizons

22nd May 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

Boskalis aims to bring a new cable-lay vessel (CLV) into its fleet to target growing demand for long-distance cable installation as the offshore wind and interconnector sector soars.

21st May 2026

Boskalis announces new cable-lay vessel order

21st May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

An international consortium led by Stillstrom has secured €5 million in funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme to develop offshore charging infrastructure for vessels anchored off the coast of Denmark.

20th May 2026

EU-backed offshore charging pilot targets emissions from anchored vessels

20th May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A major flood protection scheme in the Dutch province of Zeeland has been completed a year ahead of schedule, following extensive reinforcement work on a 5.2km stretch of dyke.

18th May 2026

Major dyke strengthening completed after flood defence works

18th May 2026

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Dutch inspection specialist Ned Marine has launched drone and ROV-based subsea inspection services to expand marine infrastructure and non-destructive testing capabilities across Europe.

14th May 2026

Using drones and ROVs for remote offshore inspection

14th May 2026

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

ABS and Seatrium have signed an agreement to accelerate innovation, regulatory alignment and sustainable technologies across the marine construction and offshore energy sectors.

12th May 2026

An expanded partnership in marine engineering

12th May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

ECOncrete has secured a US$14m fundraise to accelerate sustainable marine infrastructure projects focused on biodiversity enhancement and climate resilience worldwide. 

11th May 2026

ECOncrete expands marine infrastructure reach

11th May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A wave of construction is reshaping both shores of the Adriatic, as ports across Italy and Croatia undergo their most ambitious overhaul in decades.

8th May 2026

Historic Adriatic sea ports face large-scale transformation

8th May 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The first element of the world’s first subsea tunnel of its kind is now on its way to the immersion point.

5th May 2026

Unique subsea tunnel passes major landmark

5th May 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Speakers at a floating wind session at the recent WindEurope conference in Madrid highlighted the scale of the challenge ahead and the steps needed to bring the technology to commercial viability.

30th April 2026

Floating wind: Costs, challenges and path to commercial scale

30th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Permanent removal of ageing oil and gas infrastructure in the North Sea is emerging as one of the most complex engineering challenges facing the UK offshore sector, while also representing a multi-billion-pound…

28th April 2026

FEATURE: North Sea’s decommissioning boom

28th April 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

UK-based Global OTEC and a consortium it’s leading has installed what it describes as the world’s first purpose-built offshore platform designed to generate electricity from temperature differences in ocean water.

27th April 2026

World-first platform generates electricity with sea temperature

27th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The Port of Gothenburg has contracted Boskalis Sweden to blast and dredge part of the Skandia Gateway project to increase capacity at the port for larger vessels.

20th April 2026

€18 million dredging contract for Boskalis in Gothenburg

20th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The Port of Esbjerg is turning dredged seabed material into a building blocks that brings circularity to flood defence. 

16th April 2026

Dredged clay transformed into coastal protection blocks

16th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Europe is accelerating land reclamation projects to support offshore wind expansion, with DEME at the centre of a growing pipeline of port developments across the region.

13th April 2026

Europe creates port land to accommodate wind boom

13th April 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A European consortium is advancing new technology to reduce underwater noise from offshore wind projects as research highlights increasing risks to marine life from subsea engineering activity.

13th April 2026

France makes sound investment to curb subsea noise

13th April 2026