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High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP) has acquired Maritime Insurance International, one of the largest marine-specific agencies in the USA.

Gyro stabilisation technology company Smartgyro has appointed seven new dealers, spread across Greece, Malta, Turkey and Spain.

Former shadow chancellor, author and broadcaster Ed Balls will present a keynote speech at the upcoming British Marine National Conference, forecasting the future economic landscape for the marine industry.

Viking Neptune, the newest ocean cruise ship built by Fincantieri for the shipowner Viking, has been floated on the water for the first time at a shipyard in Ancona, Italy.

The twelfth edition of YARE (Yachting Aftersales and Refit Experience), the international meeting between captains and the yachting industry, will take place from 16-18 March 2022.

The event, which takes place at Crick Marina, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, will be held across the Bank Holiday Weekend celebratin...

This year MDL Marinas is hosting two very unique boat shows – The South Coast Boat Show and the Green Tech Boat Show – in two of its most stunning waterside locations, Southampton and Plymouth.

The RNLI has launched its search for new lifeguards to start their career on some of the UK’s most popular beaches, as applications open for 2022.

The Royal Navy is not expected to pursue a controversial Home Office policy of literally pushing back refugee dinghies towards France once the military is given responsibility for small boat English Channel crossings.

MDL Marinas has announced that the South Coast Boat Show and the Green Tech Boat Show will both return on the 6-8 May and the 16-18 June, respectively.

The Royal Navy says it has shattered a century-old ‘glass ceiling’ as Jude Terry has become the first female admiral in its history.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has launched its annual search for new lifeguards to start their career on some of the UK’s most popular beaches, as applications open for 2022.

Yamaha Motor Corporation USA has acquired Siren Marine, a Rhode Island, US-based marine technology manufacturer.

Swiss hotel chain Aman Resorts is building a 183-metre luxury floating hotel, which will be completed by 2025.

Finnish dive watch-maker Suunto has been sold to Chinese wearable technology company Liesheng. Suunto’s parent company Amer Sports, which itself was acquired by a Chinese investor consortium in 2018, says it has agreed on a transaction that...

Residents along the banks of the Rideau River were credited for thinking fast after they used a kayak to save a driver whose vehicle went through the ice in Manotick on Sunday afternoon, according to Canada’s National Post.

Boat owners and businesses at Tutukaka Marina, New Zealand, are still shaken up from Saturday night’s tsunami surges following the large volcanic eruption in Tonga and large swells from Cyclone Cody that damaged at least 50-60 boats and sun...

From its beginnings with coastal lookouts to today’s hi-tech national network of coordination centres, Her Majesty’s Coastguard is celebrating two hundred years of saving lives along the UK coast and at sea, as well as coordinating re...

An expedition yacht measuring over 100m has been launched directly from a beach in Indonesia in dramatic style.

This weekend saw the undocking of the 71m Juice from the giant Feadship construction hall in the Dutch capital.