Hanseatic Inspiration, the second of three new expedition ships from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, will be officially named at the Port of Hamburg on Friday, October 11. The ..

At least 34 people are feared to have died after a commercial diving vessel caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island in Southern California on Monday, September 2. US ..

A total of 167 people were rescued after a passenger vessel tilted and ended up on its side in the central Philippine province of Cebu on Saturday, August 31. Jomalia ..

The advance of naval unmanned surface vehicle systems continues apace, as was well illustrated by the recent unveiling, at London’s biannual Defence and Security ..

An international investigation has resulted in the largest ever seizure of heroin in the UK, denying vast sums of money to organised crime groups. Nearly 1.3 tonnes of ..

Damen Shipyards Galati has launched the second 2,000-tonne corvette ordered from the company by the Pakistan Ministry of Defence. The multi-purpose warship utilises the ..

Turkey’s Uzmar Shipyard has cut the first steel for a new offshore support tug for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Uzmar will build the 60-metre vessel to a Robert Allan ..

Damen Shipyards Group has delivered two ASD tugs to Ecuador-based DLEN. Delivered to DLEN were the 24-metre ASD Nanda and the 23-metre ASD Isabella II (pictured), which ..

Netherlands-based OSD-IMT has secured a contract to design three shallow-draught tugs in a series for shipbuilder Patria Maritim Perkasa of Batam, Indonesia. The 23-metre ..

Monday opened with the most significant spike in the oil price since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, with Brent crude shooting up 20 per cent to over US$70 per ..

DeepOcean Group has confirmed that DeepOcean Cable Lay and Trenching (DeepOcean CL&T) will split into two entities, creating DeepOcean Subsea Cables and a new ..

Maersk Decom, together with Maersk Supply Service, has begun project management for the removal, recycling, and waste management of subsea infrastructure for ..

Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a contract for a survey in South America for an unnamed client. The six-month project covers approximately 8,500 square kilometres ..

Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie; BSH) has awarded Fugro a multi-annual geotechnical site ..

Vattenfall has awarded Bibby HydroMap a contract for a second unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey on the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Wind Farm Zone in the Netherlands.

BAE Systems has conducted trials of a new unmanned rigid inflatable boat (RIB), particularly its ability to operate in support of the Royal Navy’s surface ships. ..

There are many factors within the whole process of pilot embarkation. There remains an excellent focus on ships’ rigging of pilot ladders – to minimise their ..

Novatek and Sovcomflot have established a joint venture company that will focus on managing the construction and operations of Arctic ice-class LNG carriers. The new ..