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Tender for precision engineering components for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding.

29th August 2025

Engineering services tender

29th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

A new chapter in Arctic towage has begun as a newly delivered ice-class tugboat built by Damen Shipyards officially entered service at the Port of Luleå.

29th August 2025

Damen tug debuts with Steerprop CRP

29th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Dutch vessel owner and operator Windcat Workboats says it has officially presented Windcat Rotterdam, the first of a series of six CSOV Elevation vessels developed with Damen and CMB.Tech.

28th August 2025

Windcat presents first H2-capable Elevation series CSOV

28th August 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is investigating an incident in which a passenger on a commercial RIB broke her back, leaving her permanently paralysed.

28th August 2025

Passenger paralysed on commercial RIB investigated by MAIB

28th August 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

DNV has revised its Maritime Simulator Systems Standard to strengthen vessel simulation, vessel training and vessel safety in a rapidly evolving maritime sector.

28th August 2025

DNV updates Maritime Simulator Standard

28th August 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A subsea equipment repair base has been opened in Florida by Drift Offshore, a UK firm that says it is answering a shortfall of such facilities in the US.

28th August 2025

UK firm opens subsea repair firm in US

28th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

High-tech robotics and autonomous navigation firm Exail is building on its success with its USVs with another sale, this time to an unnamed ‘global hydrographic authority’.

28th August 2025

Exail expands sales with autonomous USV order

28th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A seabed lease has been finalised to allow the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, to be expanded, even though the UK grid cannot cope with existing wind power generation.

28th August 2025

Plans agreed to make world’s biggest OSW farm even bigger

28th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Saildrone’s Surveyor class of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) has been given full classification by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the first for a deep-sea unmanned platform, it says.

27th August 2025

VIDEO: Saildrone’s ‘Surveyor’ USV wins classification

27th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Marine contractor Van Oord is to breathe life into thousands of oysters to mitigate the damage caused to the North Sea bed by the growing scale of wind farms, cables and other…

27th August 2025

Van Oord lays foundations for North Sea oyster revival

27th August 2025

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Structural remediation, corrosion protection, pavement upgrades and the reinstatement of critical maritime infrastructure elements. 

27th August 2025

EARLY INFO: Maritime infrastructure

27th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Hopes are high that a major maritime environmental disaster involving a fire on a container ship has been averted following rapid intervention by both the vessel’s crew and professional salvors.

27th August 2025

Major ship fire threat averted by quick response

27th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Donald Trump has sent more shockwaves through the US offshore wind industry just as offshore wind vessel operator Cadeler reported better than expected results in the sector.

26th August 2025

US wind faces another setback while Cadeler soars

26th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Heavy-lift cargo drones are being used by Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted and its UK-based drone operator Skylift to deliver critical safety evacuation equipment to the nacelles of wind turbines.

26th August 2025

Ørsted deploys drones for wind farms

26th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

An application for a 1GW floating offshore wind farm off northeast Scotland has been submitted by a German, Belgian and French consortium.

26th August 2025

Floating offshore wind farm proposed for Scotland

26th August 2025

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A Dutch engineering project is to be expanded following ‘an explosion of marine life’ that has been recorded in the four years since it started.

26th August 2025

Dutch combine flood defence with marine life

26th August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar has begun building a RAmparts 2400SX-MKII tug for Ultratug in Mexico.

22nd August 2025

Sanmar starts build of tug for Mexico

22nd August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Two Southampton-based companies have trialled an electric vessel for a marine civil engineering project in one of the UK’s busiest ports.

22nd August 2025

VIDEO: Autonomous, electric cargo delivery

22nd August 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

ACUA Ocean’s unmanned surface vessel has completed reportedly the world’s first continuous, remote 24-hour offshore operation powered entirely by hydrogen.

22nd August 2025

WATCH: Hydrogen USV completes historic mission

22nd August 2025

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Safe, high-performance police vessel capable of being used for police operations such as rescue and recovery work, diving training, diving operations.

22nd August 2025

Police vessel tender

22nd August 2025