Police in Scotland are asking for an extra £250,000 of funding from the Scottish Parliament to cover extra costs incurred while dealing with a Super Puma helicopter crash in the North Sea back in April in which 16 people died. Grampian Police says overtime alone cost nearly £250,000 in the aftermath
Militants in Nigeria are holding six members of the crew of an oil tanker, including its Russian captain. A statement from the managers of the ship, the Sichem Peace, said armed men boarded the vessel near Escravos and forced the men to come ashore. The ship was released and the remaining 13 crew mo
The crew of Devonport-based warship HMS Portland has returned home after an anti-piracy operation in the Middle East and Indian Ocean. The frigate clocked up 57,000 miles – the equivalent of travelling twice around the world – during its seven-and-a-half month deployment. While overseas the crew was
The Norfolk coastguard has co-ordinated the rescue of a 57-year-old passenger taken ill on a cruise liner. The man was taken seriously ill on Tuesday on the P&O cruise ship Ventura which was in the North Sea travelling to Southampton.
The south west is set to become a global centre for marine energy following a £10.3m investment in the development of equipment and expertise to harness energy from the sea. The investment will be used by the Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE), which was set up two ye
Onega Shipbuilding Yard in Petrozavodsk has delivered the Emi Leader to the Estonian shipping company Eestinova OÜ in St. Petersburg. It is the second vessel in a series of four units. These multipurpose dry-cargo carriers have been designed by Marine Engineering Bureau in Odessa for transportation
AMELS announces a new concept to meet the growing demand for support vessels among large-yacht owners. DAMEN Shipyard has adapted its exclusive AXE BOW Concept, already applied commercially to Fast Crew Supply Vessels, to a new SEA AXE Fast Yacht Support Vessel. The AXE BOW is a proprietary design c
Danish Unifeeder will commence service to Gävle Container Terminal, GCT, in August. Unifeeder transports other shipping companies containers to European ports as Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Antwerp.
The widows of two men who died when a tug capsized in the Clyde have launched a damages action against port managers and the boat’s operators. Linda Cameron and Eileen Blackley said they felt “bitterly angry” that safety recommendations had not been implemented in the wake of the tragedy. The Flying
Fincantieri Monfalcone shipyard held the keel laying ceremony on July 2 for the ‘Queen Elizabeth’, ordered by Carnival group for the British shipowner, Cunard Line. The section laid in the dry dock is approximately 14 metres long, 32.2 wide and weighs 468 tonnes. Following the ‘Queen Victoria’, buil
The last of the remains of the MSC Napoli are being removed, more than two years after the ship was deliberately grounded off the Devon coast. After several false starts a Dutch salvage team has started to lift and cut the stern section of the ship. The Napoli was grounded off Branscombe in January
A new unmanned autonomous submarine has been developed to detect explosive mines hidden in shallow coastal waters such as ports and harbours. BAE Systems introduced the 50kg vessel called Talisman L, which uses high-definition forward and sideways looking sonar and an array of multi-view cameras. Th
The 22-streamer ‘Ramform Sterling’ was named on July 1 at the yard in Tomrefjord, Norway. The new vessel, a sister ship of ‘Ramform Sovereign’, is 16 metres longer than the previous class Ramforms. It has significantly higher acquisition and transit speed, 25 percent longer endurance, and 60 percent
The town of Alblasserdam – east of Rotterdam – will get a Container Transferium (CT).The founding agreement was signed on Monday June 29 between the Dutch Transport Ministry and the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoRA). The ‘Binnenlandse Container Terminals Nederland’ (BCTN) will operate the terminal.
