Subsea Services

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Ireland has completed a major stage in planning the transmission infrastructure needed to bring offshore wind power ashore, with grid operator EirGrid concluding a marine and coastal survey campaign involving almost 70,000 hours of work across 2,337 kilometres of sea.…

21st October 2026

Irish offshore wind grid takes shape after 70,000-hour survey

21st October 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

A proposed £1.5 billion programme of subsea tunnels and bridges linking Scotland’s islands has been revealed in a report that was embargoed until today. Maritime Journal has already reported on the tunnels and ferry services earmarked for the Shetland Islands,…

16th October 2026

£1.5 billion price tag put on Scotland’s island links

16th October 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

The UK Royal Navy is sounding out potential suppliers for extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XLUUVs) in a first step towards a possible tender process. Small and medium-sized marine businesses are being invited…

16th October 2026

Royal Navy opens door to uncrewed submarines tender

16th October 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

French engineering and offshore services group Aventa has snapped up Irish Sea Contractors (ISC) in a deal that will add a raft of capabilities to the company and give it a bridge…

15th October 2026

Aventa expands operations with Irish Sea Contractors purchase

15th October 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

From a redesigned acoustic sensor gondola to upgraded winches, laboratories and deep-sea systems, a special look inside France’s flagship research vessel has revealed the engineering behind a ship built to investigate some…

14th October 2026

FEATURE: New horizons for France’s flagship deep-research vessel

14th October 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

A 30-year programme of marine engineering works has been approved to connect three of the UK’s most remote islands. There are only 22,700 people on the islands, which are dominated by open…

1st October 2026

Shetland approves 30 years of subsea tunnel works

1st October 2026

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

A Canadian/Dutch joint venture has launched the first of two purpose-built rock installation vessels to help meet growing demand for specialist subsea rock installation work for offshore wind. Rock Star is the…

30th September 2026

Joint venture propels new ‘Rock Star’ onto centre stage

30th September 2026

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

The first of 18 concrete caissons that will form a new breakwater at the Italian port of Ravenna has been installed. The breakwater, which will be around 900 metres long, will be…

30th September 2026

Major breakwater works begin at Port of Ravenna

30th September 2026

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to provide an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) hangar and launch and recovery system for a new research vessel being built by Vard for Inkfish. The system…

30th September 2026

Kongsberg Maritime to deliver AUV hangar and subsea docking system

30th September 2026

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) is expanding its offshore services with a 50% stake in Norwegian recruitment and crewing specialist OffshoreCrew. The company says it wants to target growing demand for qualified personnel…

29th September 2026

Bernhard Schulte takes 50% stake in crewing specialist

29th September 2026

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

Seabed imaging, anchor and foundation company Subsea Micropiles is spending £5 million (€5.8 million) over the next three years to expand its manufacturing and offshore operations at Montrose Port in Scotland. The…

28th September 2026

Subsea technology boost signalled for Scottish port

28th September 2026

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

The €2.8 billion NeuConnect interconnector between Great Britain and Germany has entered a new phase of construction, with mechanical and electrical fit-out now under way at converter stations on the Isle of…

28th September 2026

German-UK subsea power link enters next phase

28th September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

After years of developing the technology and infrastructure needed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes and store it permanently underground, the European Union has its first full-scale CCS project in operation.…

22nd September 2026

First full-scale CCS subsea store in Europe opens

22nd September 2026

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

'Crayfish' will be deployed from converted trenching support vessel Henry Darcy on TenneT’s 2GW German North Sea programme.

16th September 2026

Jan De Nul expands subsea cable capability with shallow-water trencher

16th September 2026

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Subsea cable services company WIND has acquired a major stake in UK-based technical services firm Tricore in answer to customer demand, the company says. WIND said the investment was driven by demand…

11th September 2026

Customer demand drives cable firm WIND to take stake in Tricore

11th September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

Italian survey contractor Subsea Fenix has taken delivery of a 5.7m battery-hybrid uncrewed surface vessel (USV) from UK builder HydroSurv, combining hydrographic survey and subsea inspection capabilities on a single platform. Named…

10th September 2026

Subsea Fenix takes delivery of hybrid USV for survey and ROV work

10th September 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Installation of the UK’s first CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure project has begun, with pipelay and subsea installation now being followed by rock protection work along the route.

27th August 2026

Northern Endurance begins the long haul to CO₂ subsea storage

27th August 2026

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to supply integrated technology and equipment for a new multi-purpose deep-water installation and construction vessel to be owned and operated by Solstad Offshore and SBM Offshore.

26th August 2026

Kongsberg to supply world’s largest anchor-handling winch

26th August 2026

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Harwich Haven Authority is introducing a new digital Under Keel Clearance (UKC) management system designed to give its vessel traffic operators and pilots more detailed, real-time information on navigational conditions.

24th August 2026

Under-keel clearance system first to be deployed in UK

24th August 2026

SECURITY

SECURITY

A second arrest has been made in connection with the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipelines sabotage, German prosecutors have said.

20th August 2026

Second Ukrainian arrested for 2022 Nord Stream pipeline attack

20th August 2026