Australian boatbuilder Norman R. Wright and Sons (NRW) has handed over a new patrol vessel to the Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES) for operations in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef.

We talk collectively about “the shipping industry”, but the rest of the world will fail to comprehend that it is a collection of very different sectors, united only by the fact that their plant floats.

The Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES), a preservation agency operating in the Australian state of Queensland, recently expanded its fleet of marine protection vessel with the acquisition of an aluminium catamaran landing craft built by compatriot shipbuilder Norman R. Wright and Sons (NRW).

Australian boatbuilder Norman R. Wright and Sons (NRW) has handed over a new patrol vessel to the Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES) for operations in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef.

We talk collectively about “the shipping industry”, but the rest of the world will fail to comprehend that it is a collection of very different sectors, united only by the fact that their plant floats.

The Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES), a preservation agency operating in the Australian state of Queensland, recently expanded its fleet of marine protection vessel with the acquisition of an aluminium catamaran landing craft built by compatriot shipbuilder Norman R. Wright and Sons (NRW).

Norwegian shipowner SFL Corporation has expanded its fleet with the recent acquisition of a new pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) built jointly by Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) and China Shipbuilding Trading (CSTC).

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has confirmed that a US Navy warship and naval vessels of partner nations responded to a distress call by the crew of a commercial ship that had been boarded by five armed individuals near Yemen over the weekend.

Italy’s Port System Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale; ADSP) and local shipbuilder Fincantieri have entered into an agreement to develop the current infrastructure at the Port of Ancona to employ it for the construction of ships both in the cruise and ..

Fishing boat skippers throughout Scotland are urging policymakers not to push through highly protected marine areas (HPMAs) “by the back door” after the publication of the consultation response, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) said in a news release earlier this week.

Clearwater Ocean Prawns Venture (COPV), a joint venture formed by Danish fishing company Ocean Prawns and Canada’s Clearwater Seafoods, has expanded its fleet with the recent acquisition of a new deep-sea-capable factory trawler designed by Norwegian naval architecture firm Skipsteknisk.

A new all-aluminium net fishing boat has been delivered to Hellnes Fisk, a fishing company based at the western Norwegian town of Elnesvågen.

Hong Kong Maritime Week 2023, which was held from November 19 to 25, included a range of activities that organiser Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board expects will help reinforce the special administrative region’s position as an international maritime centre.

Damen Naval has chosen ABB to supply its proprietary integrated power and distribution systems to a new class of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates.

Yanmar Power Technology (YPT), a subsidiary of Yanmar Holdings, has successfully commercialised a maritime hydrogen fuel cell system.