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Designed by committee, ineffective and crippled by unreliable and complex propulsion systems, brand new US Littoral Combat Ships being decommissioned...

Tim Chesher FIMarEST on his motivation to set up the Coastal Science & Engineering SIG and his plans for cross-SIG workshops and shared learning 

A founding member of the Human Element Working Group, and recipient of the UK’s Merchant Navy Medal for services to Merchant Shipping and Ship Safety Systems, Dr Paul Doherty FIMarEST explains why the integration of new technologies requires a richer understanding of compatibility with the system, its environment and the end user.

The IMarEST's European International Submarine Races (eISR) is back fuelling teams of university students to design, build and race human-powered submarines against the clock

Wave power is gaining traction as a new commercially viable net zero energy solution.

The maritime sector has received a £34m funding boost for cleaner shipping...

The world’s first global conference on seafarer mental health and wellbeing brought together a range of stakeholders to discuss interventions and strategies...

The IMarEST Marine Autonomous Working Group is working with industry on ways to report near misses – so that the industry can learn from them and avoid bigge...

As marine professionals prepare to mark International Day for Women in Maritime later this week, is enough done to showcase the efforts of females who work in the industry?

Livestock caught up in the Suez Canal blockage highlight the practical, operational and ethical difficulties of an older fleet transporting a moving cargo ac...

Will machine learning technology designed to detect marine mammals scale up the quality and quantity of marine mammal data?

A report by Germany’s Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation looked into the allision of the container ship Akacia with a lock gate on the Kiel Ca...

The commitment and innovation shown by the shipping industry to tackle climate concerns could be undermined if upstream emissions efforts fail to keep up. A ...

Decommissioning project manager Jessica Lyon FIMarEST grew up in Aberdeen and explains how a summer internship...

The world’s fastest ever passenger liner and cargo ship both emanated from the USA. The United States and the SL-7 container ships both achieved their remark...

In September 2019, a fire aboard a dive charter vessel lying at anchor off the Californian coast killed 33 passengers and one crewmember. It was a tragedy th...