Safety & Training

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A joint project to use artificial intelligence to save lives at sea has been set up with a focus on for floating wind farms.

1st February 2024

Pilot project launched to use AI to save lives

1st February 2024

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The shipping industry needs to act now to ensure seafarers are ready for the energy transition, says e-learning provider OneLearn Global.

18th January 2024

Act now to prepare for energy transition, shippers told

18th January 2024

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Following demanding evaluation trials, KNRM (The Royal Dutch Lifeboat Association) has ordered 12 class 50 DuroWipers for the latest four hulls of its newbuild KNRM 18m RIBs.

16th January 2024

KNRM orders DuroWipers for Valentijn class RIBs

16th January 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

2024 is the 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and the occasion will be marked with a service of thanksgiving at London’s Westminster Abbey in March.

16th January 2024

RNLI celebrates 200 years of life saving

16th January 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A £12 million (€14 million) shipbuilding academy is to be built in Glasgow, Scotland in an effort to help secure the shipbuilding sector in Scotland ‘for generations to come’.

15th January 2024

£12m shipbuilding academy earmarked for Scotland

15th January 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first broadcast of the Shipping Forecast, the well-known and often joked about BBC service that is still in existence…

10th January 2024

The Shipping Forecast broadcast turns 100

10th January 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Storms in European waters have kept the Netherlands-based Multraship Towage & Salvage busy both at sea and also in somewhat calmer inland waterways.

4th January 2024

Salvage and rescue teams battle in stormy seas

4th January 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Media reports have confirmed that a Christmas Day fire onboard a 125m cargo ship that had burned ‘for days’ has been put out – with suggestions that the blaze had been caused…

3rd January 2024

Suspected battery blaze on cargo ship put out

3rd January 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Svitzer has selected Kongsberg Digital to supply tug training simulators as the Denmark-based towage operator’s Port of Newcastle, Australia operation prepares for the arrival of the innovative TRAnsverse tug in early 2025.

15th December 2023

Training tug masters of the future

15th December 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The MCA’s controversial new workboat code has gone in force today – with many of its problems eliminated or watered down thanks to hours of work by the Workboat Association (WA) and…

13th December 2023

Controversial Workboat Code enforced

13th December 2023