News

VESSELS

VESSELS

Alewijnse and Damen have joined forces to develop the largest tugs that Alewijnse has ever worked on.

7th April 2026

Damen-Alewijnse tug design boasts higher power

7th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

 PD Ports says it plans to have a major offshore wind hub up and running within two years, competing with the more established UK ports.

7th April 2026

Teesport Offshore Gateway aims to rival UK’s largest offshore wind ports

7th April 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Finland is planning to establish a major offshore wind logistics base at Koverhar Harbour, with developers and port operators revealing details of the infrastructure required to support gigawatt-scale projects in the Baltic…

7th April 2026

Finland plans major port overhaul to accommodate offshore wind

7th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Developers of a ‘first-of-a-kind’ factory that will fabricate concrete substructures for floating wind farms has won €126 million in public funding.

1st April 2026

Floating foundations first wins €millions in public funding

1st April 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

“Circularity is one of the most efficient ways of competing with the environmental challenges today,” said Roseanne van Houwelingen, the moderator of the last session, Circular Economy for Workboats, of the Seawork Get…

31st March 2026

Conference highlights circularity as essential to sustainable progress

31st March 2026

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

After the catastrophic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse two years ago – causing an estimated $3 billion in damage – innovators are harnessing AI and digital tools to predict disasters, optimise vessels…

31st March 2026

Crash avoidance – cyber safety: Digital and AI benefits

31st March 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

As automation creeps in and skilled seafarers head for shore, the commercial workboat sector faces a crewing crisis that no one seems to have a ready answer for.

31st March 2026

Crew crisis at the heart of Seawork discussions

31st March 2026

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has received applications covering more than 2 million acres of North Sea seabed at the close of the UK’s second carbon storage licensing round last week.

30th March 2026

UK seabed carbon storage licensing attracts bids for 2 million acres

30th March 2026

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Subsea cable protection and polymer designer CRP Subsea has announced it will supply cable protection for Germany’s largest offshore wind farm.

30th March 2026

CRP Subsea wins contract for Germany’s largest offshore wind farm

30th March 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

There’s little confusion about one thing in today’s workboat industry: that there is confusion about what the future for fuels looks like.

30th March 2026

Future fuels conundrum: crewing, insurance, funding

30th March 2026

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Delivery of an injection vessel and a suction dredger. 

27th March 2026

Vessel delivery

27th March 2026

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK government has pulled the plug on a giant offshore turbine manufacturing facility in Scotland, citing national security concerns over the Chinese company behind the plans.

27th March 2026

UK pulls plug on Chinese offshore wind turbine factory

27th March 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

Delegates from across the workboat industry thrashed out issues affecting the sector at Seawork’s Get Set for Workboat session in Rotterdam this week, with general agreement on the issues themselves, if not…

27th March 2026

Forging the future: Workboat industry looks ahead

27th March 2026

FEATURES & VIDEOS

FEATURES & VIDEOS

Despite fears being raised over the risk of the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery lying laden with explosives off the coat of Kent, recent surveys have shown she remains stable.

27th March 2026

FEATURE: ​Living next to an explosive WW2 wreck

27th March 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Associated British Ports and the UK Government have agreed terms for public funding to support the development of floating offshore wind infrastructure at Port Talbot, marking a major step in plans to…

27th March 2026

Port Talbot wind hub advances

27th March 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

Windcat Amsterdam has arrived in Europe, the first Elevation-series CSOV in the region and a new type of offshore vessel built for wind farm construction and maintenance.

27th March 2026

Windcat and Damen launch first European Elevation series CSOV

27th March 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

Tersan Shipyard has delivered Acta Hercules, the second in a series of four Walk-to-Work (W2W) DP2 Construction Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) being built for Acta Marine at its Yalova facility in Turkey.

25th March 2026

Tersan flexes offshore wind muscle with ‘Hercules’ delivery to Acta Marine

25th March 2026

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

It took a chance meeting in a barber’s shop before it occurred to George Kinnaird, from the landlocked north English town of Huddersfield, that he could have a career at sea.

24th March 2026

INTERVIEW: 28 days at sea – life on and off the bridge

24th March 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

TotalEnergies has accepted $1 billion to abandon offshore wind leases in the US and re-focus on oil and gas, a US government announcement has confirmed.

24th March 2026

US pays TotalEnergies $1 billion to dump offshore wind

24th March 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

As Brussels lays out an ambitious vision for ports as Europe’s energy hubs, the wind industry is warning that without dedicated public finance, the infrastructure bottlenecks threatening the offshore wind build-out will…

23rd March 2026

EU Ports Strategy does not go far enough: WindEurope

23rd March 2026