A consortium working to restore the Swansea to Cork ferry has been granted an extra two weeks to raise the money. Backers say over £2m of the £2.5m in private money needed to buy the ship has been pledged.
A Royal Navy ship has arrived in a Norfolk town to mark the end of its 800th charter anniversary celebrations. King John granted the charter in 1208, giving Great Yarmouth its borough status, a market and a defensive wall.
Sir Tom Farmer has spoken out against plans to rename part of the historic port of Leith as Edinburgh Harbour. The multi-millionaire founder of Kwik-Fit, who was brought up in Leith, said he was “most surprised” that Forth Ports would consider such a move.
Austal’s Tasmanian shipyard has launched the first of three 22 metre catamaran police boats being built for the Queensland Police Service. Intended to patrol remote, tropical locations for extended periods, as far north as Thursday Island, each vessel has a cruising speed of 20 knots, a minimum rang
A £70m plan for a new port linking Scotland to Northern Ireland has been recommended to receive council support. Stena Line wants to move its Irish Sea services out of Stranraer and along the coast to Old House Point.
The Chinese navy has saved an Italian merchant ship from an attack by pirates off the coast of Somalia, Chinese state media have reported. The state-run Xinhua news agency said the Liberian-flagged ship was attacked in the Gulf of Aden.
Jan De Nul Group has been awarded a Euros 200 million contract for work to expand facilities at BHP Billiton’s Western Australia Iron Ore operations in Port Hedland. These works are part of BHP Billiton’s Rapid Growth Project 5 (RGP5), designed to increase the capacity of the company’s iron ore oper
The economic downturn may have brought with it a sense of gloom for many sectors of the maritime industry, but the unglamorous world of dredging has been quietly bucking the trend. And while small cracks are slowly starting to appear in the form of the scaled-down or postponed project here and there
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has received permission to develop its second Dutch Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea. The Dutch authorities awarded consent to the group’s renewables development division, Airtricity, for the construction of ‘Breeveertieen II’ off the coast of Ijmuiden. Paul Dow
“The course to Fiji is south-east, and the wind direction is generally easterly, so any distance that they slip to the south makes the rest of it more uphill.” The action is approaching fever pitch on the water and Ericsson 4 are at risk of getting left on the shelf. It’s Doldrums 3.2, and Torben [&
“We decided to sail the boat to China and do this leg no matter what. This is THE leg for us Volvo rookies on Ericsson 3 and no one wanted to miss it.” Day 11 dawned and there was something of the morning-after-the-night-before to the mood on Green Dragon. First the Oscars after-party – then [&helli
The board of Broström AB has proposed a new organisational structure for the Swedish based tanker company, in connection with the merger of the activities with the Maersk Tankers activities. The purpose is to ensure that Broström will continue as a strong brand and further build on the Broström heri
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has received International Standards Organization (ISO) certification for the environmental management systems at the company’s Sperry Marine facilities in Europe. The Certificate of Conformance from ABS Quality Evaluations confirms that Sperry Marine’s envir
CEDA and IADC partnered for the third time with the Postgraduate Academic Programme (PAO) at the Delft University of Technology to present a joint two-day seminar ”Environmental Aspects of Dredging” in Delft, The Netherlands. The course took place 29-30 January. The lectures once again were given by
