Environment

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

French opposition MPs want to ban superyachts over 50 metres from entering French ports, marinas or territorial waters.

20th July 2026

French MPs seek total ban on superyachts over 50m

20th July 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Motive Offshore Group is investing in its Peterhead facility, strengthening its engineering services and supporting offshore renewables in the North Sea.

6th March 2025

Motive expands its North Sea renewables offering

6th March 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has awarded Lloyd Werft a contract to construct a pioneering research vessel designed to test alternative fuels and climate-friendly propulsion technologies.

10th February 2025

A floating laboratory onboard a research vessel

10th February 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Wood Thilsted Partners has teamed up with several leading companies and institutions to advance nature inclusivity in offshore wind farm design.

21st November 2024

Nature-inclusive offshore wind project launches

21st November 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched its new GB£2m Manufacturing Facility Support Programme (MFSP) to boost the UK’s offshore wind manufacturing sector.

17th September 2024

£2m boost for UK offshore wind manufacturing

17th September 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Partners from science and industry are building the first offshore pilot project for large-scale oyster reef restoration in the Belgian North Sea.

16th July 2024

Pilot project first for large-scale oyster reef restoration

16th July 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A new collaborative marine research project aims to identify best practice in monitoring and mitigating underwater noise associated with floating offshore wind developments.

3rd June 2024

Mitigating noise for floating offshore wind

3rd June 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

There is an increasing urgency for all of us to address climate change and there is a need to work together. Most of the problems, and their solutions, overlap and require collaboration.

16th January 2024

Green Ports & Shipping Congress – Reducing Emissions Together

16th January 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Support in the American state of New Jersey for building offshore wind turbines off the coast has plummeted over the past four years, according to a new poll.

9th October 2023

Poll shows popularity slumping for US offshore windfarms

9th October 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The DemoSATH floating offshore wind project is now fully operational and generating clean energy to the Spanish grid.

25th September 2023

DemoSATH floating offshore wind project switches on

25th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

After decaying off the coast of Yemen for 30 years, work began yesterday to empty a decaying supertanker of more than a million barrels of oil.

26th July 2023

VIDEO: Decaying oil tanker salvage begins

26th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

In 2024, the world’s first green fuels service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind operations will launch off the UK, courtesy of Ørsted and ESVAGT.

24th July 2023

Ørsted commits to second green methanol SOV

24th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The French government is to furnish the tidal energy pilot farm FloWatt with €65 million of funding, setting a benchmark for others in Europe to follow.

17th July 2023

France boosts its tidal sector with €65m funding

17th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Boskalis will join forces with the UN and take measures to stop an oil tanker exploding after it has been decaying off the coast of Yemen for more than 30 years.

22nd May 2023

Boskalis steps in to avert oil tanker disaster

22nd May 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The International Maritime Organisation is urging its 175 member states to step in and help UN-led efforts to prevent a potential catastrophe off the Yemen coast, where a decaying floating storage (FSO)…

26th April 2023

IMO pleads for help to prevent oil catastrophe

26th April 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The technology group Wärtsilä is receiving orders for engines compliant with China’s stage II emissions standard.

12th September 2022

Driving China’s environmental compliance

12th September 2022

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A Victorian copper bell has been unearthed during work to connect utilities in Portsmouth, UK.

5th July 2022

Coastal civils project reveals hidden treasure

5th July 2022

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) claims that The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is dragging its heels over marine plastic pollution caused by vessels.

22nd January 2022

Campaigners say IMO holds ‘callous disregard’ for plastic pollution

22nd January 2022