Latest marine news about UK’s canal network and European canals.
Read about the first UK boater census, the energy support scheme opens to berth holders and Camden’s Dead Dog Bridge enjoying spring facelift. As boating holidays rose across the UK, River Canal Rescue called for ‘sticky fuel’ samples.
Plus, what happened when Venice canals started to run dry, leaving gondolas stranded.
News on the Suez Canal crisis, and the Canal and River Trust can be found in MIN’s archives.
The Canal & River Trust has written to boaters using the networks warning them to not stay overnight during lockdown. “The rules, and the impact on boating, are largely the same as for the first lockdown from March to June last year,” the missive says. “All navigation in England and Wales should currently be limited […]
Ronnie Rusack, who dedicated half a century to the revival of Scottish canals, protecting the historic assets and opening them up again to the public, a role he fulfilled alongside his day job of running the award-winning pub while also raising many thousands of pounds for charity, has died aged 72. In 1971 Rusack was […]
After a spate of incidents in which River Canal Rescue (RCR) has seen up to 100 cases of ‘sticky fuel’ this year, MD Stephanie Horton is asking for similar fuel samples to be sent to her. RCR says it is the UK’s largest national 24/7, 365 days-a-year breakdown/emergency assistance service provider for inland waterway boaters. […]
The Canal & River Trust is carrying out a major winter makeover of the Macclesfield and Peak Forest canals. Trust staff and 70 volunteers will work across 43 miles of waterways in East Cheshire and Derbyshire. Both canals are being dredged, boundary fences mended, overhanging vegetation cut back or removed, and dry stone walls repaired. […]
Over £19m of improvement works are set to get underway across Scotland’s canals this winter. The capital investment from Scottish Government will see major works and essential upgrades take place throughout the canal network. This planned investment is part of Scottish Canals’ Asset Management Strategy 2018-30, which prioritises improvements on all canal infrastructure in Scotland, […]
Britain’s oldest ship canal – part of the Port of Exeter – has been named a Heritage Harbour, one of only four historic harbours in the UK so far to be given the status. The title was awarded by the Maritime Heritage Trust and National Historic Ships UK following an application from The Friends of […]
One of the Pentagon’s two Overlord large unmanned surface vessels conducted a first-ever Panama Canal transit, sailing thousands of miles from the Gulf Coast to California in a major test of autonomous systems with few reliability issues along the way, the chief of naval operations told US Naval Institue News. The 59-metre USV, was converted […]
The Scottish Government has awarded £1m of additional funding to Scottish Canals to undertake vital dredging works in the Highlands this winter. Dredging will take place across the Caledonian and Crinan Canals from January 2021, ensuring these working heritage structures remain vibrant and busy and continuing to support local jobs and businesses. Some 20,000 tonnes […]
Concordia Damen has signed a contract for 40 eco-friendly dual fuel inland waterway barges with institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. These barges will be chartered by Shell and operated by the VT Group/Marlow. The 110 x 11.5m vessels will have LNG propulsion and extreme shallow draught capabilities – 2800 ton on 3.25m […]
A Cyprus-flagged bulk carrier sailed into, and severely damaged, a railway bridge while transiting the Panama Canal on 23 June. Although traffic on the canal wasn’t affected, its estimated that repairs to the railway bridge will take at least 16 days, according to Safety at Sea. The railway bridge crosses the Chagres River in Gamboa, […]
Hampshire based freight and packing company PSP Logistics provides amongst other trade routes a shipping service from China to the USA and regularly has cargo on container vessels transiting the Panama Canal but their latest use of the Panama Canal is as a competitor in the famous Clipper Round The World Yacht Race. This is […]