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This book is the latest all colour album in the same series as Bristol Channel Shipping Memories and Mersey Shipping Memories. It takes a look at Solent Merchant Shipping over the last…

Maritime Britain is a journey around Britain' s coast in bite-sized pieces that still manages to give the local flavour of the harbours, bays and ports, while putting them all in their…

Leading German SWATH ship builder Abeking & Rasmussen has booked a 26m tender for offshore wind farm maintenance and supply. The 13m wide tender is for delivery in 2010 to the BARD…

Following last month' s high profile recovery of the Portrush lifeboat, the Katie Hannan, Eccleshall UK based shipping company Robert Wynn & Sons have been called in again to help the RNLI.

In a change to the previous arrangement, Canadian operator CHC Helicopter Corporation now operate rescue helicopters for the MCA at four UK bases.

More than 190 participants at the 5th annual Green Ship Technology conference in Rotterdam last month explored the latest tide of ‘ stick and carrot’ options for making shipping environmentally sustainable. Eco-friendly…

Ferry operator Wightlink has launched the first of three new ferries at the Brodogradiliste Kraljevica yard in Croatia, where all three of the vessels are being built.

Pirates took the crew of a luxury French yacht hostage on Friday 4 April. The 850-ton three-mast yacht the  Ponant (operated by Marseille-based CMA-CGM) had 30 crew but no passengers when it…

The European Maritime Education & Training conference is being held in the historic port city of Kirkwall, capital of the Orkney Isles, on Friday 30 May, 2008.

Nautical – the Next Step, a maritime training initiative including a Deck Cadet training course offered by Banff and Buchan College in Scotland, has been launched to tackle industry skills shortages.