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  • 29 November 2010

    Port of Tyne is operating as usual today, with passenger, cargo and container ships arriving and trucks delivering goods across the UK safely and on time.

  • 21 March 2012

    The Port, one of the UK’s major deep sea ports, has increased tonnage of cargoes handled by 66% compared to 2010 and has broken its own records for handling cars, containers and bulk cargoes in the form of wood pellets. Total tonnage recorded for 2011 increased by 2.1 million tonnes to 5.3 million tonnes. The […]

  • 9 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    The award-winning Port has broken its own records with year on year growth since 2009. Last year, turnover increased to a record £63 million, cash flow from operating activity rose to a record £19 million and profit before tax reached a record £12 million. Port of Tyne Chairman, Sir Les Elton, said: “The Port’s strategy […]

  • 19 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The British Prime Minister David Cameron popped into the Port of Tyne on Friday, May 16th. Accompanied by Martin Callanan MEP, the Prime Minister took in a bird’s eye view of the Port from the top of a 70m high container shipping crane.   The new gantry crane, costing £6m, was installed at the end […]

  • 28 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Eight container shipping companies are facing fines from China’s Ministry of Transport for violation of freight rate-related regulations. An inspection found that the companies in question failed to report their freight rates or did not meet the standards set by the ministry regarding freight rate standards, the ministry said. The container carriers found in breach […]

  • 31 October 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    The giants of the renewable industry are set to gather in Scotland this week – and the Port of Tyne will be at the heart of the action. Renewable UK – the world’s largest conference and exhibition of its kind – will bring together 300 different organisations working in the generation and supply of new […]

  • 10 February 2008

    The French builder of the cruise ship Queen Mary 2 and another firm have each been fined 177,500 euros (£133,649) over an accident that killed 16 people. A walkway collapsed in November 2003, when the giant ship was in dry dock at Saint Nazaire in France.

  • 15 September 2007

    One of the world’s best known luxury liners entered the Tyne on her fourth attempt on Sunday. The QE2 visited North Shields overnight during an eight-day tour of Britain to mark her 40th birthday.

  • 16 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    U.S. barge builder Sterling Shipyard LP was cited for 16 serious, repeat and failure-to-abate violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for continuing to expose workers to safety hazards, including dangerous machinery, high noise levels without appropriate hearing protection and falls from heights above 6 feet, OSHA said.   […]

  • 10 January 2007

    A group of Kilkeel fishermen who pleaded guilty to landing illegal fish have been given fines totalling almost £150,000 at Liverpool Crown Court. The court was told the men cheated the system of £400,000 by falsely claiming they had caught non-quota fish such as conger eel and gurnard.

  • 27 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    German conglomerate Siemens is getting closer to making its formal offer for the French company Alstom. According to Reuters, Siemens is expected to offer less than EUR 7 billion, which is almost a half of what GE is offering, together with its train business for Alstom’s energy business. Previously, it was believed the company’s cash […]

  • 25 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Westminster Dredging Company Limited appeared last week at Plymouth Magistrates Court in respect of 1 charge of carrying out marine licensable activity otherwise in accordance with a marine licence contrary to section 65 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. The charge related to a dredging and disposal campaign carried out by the company […]

  • 29 March 2013

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii State Department of Health announced on March 28 their settlement with Marisco Ltd. including civil penalties of $710,000 for water pollution control violations at its ship repair and drydock facilities at Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor on Oahu. This is the largest Clean Water Act civil penalty against […]

  • 18 June 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Tyne has acquired 10 acres of land adjoining its Tyne Dock estate in South Shields from the Administrators of McNulty Offshore Group Holdings Limited. It is a strategic acquisition which will support the Port’s plans for future growth in both its existing business sectors and new areas.  Andrew Moffat, Chief Executive Officer […]

  • 17 July 2006

    A ship has been towed out of a Tyneside shipyard after work to complete the vessel was handed over to a rival shipyard in Scotland. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced last week that the unfinished ship Lyme Bay would be handed over from Swan Hunter to BAE Systems, at Govan.

  • 9 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Drilling contractor Noble Drilling was charged with environmental and maritime crimes for operating the drillship Noble Discoverer and the drilling unit Kulluk in violation of federal law in Alaska in 2012, the Department of Justice announced. Under the terms of a plea agreement filed in federal court yesterday, Noble will plead guilty to eight […]

  • 1 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The operator of a UK registered container ship has been ordered to pay £17,311.01 for breaching oil pollution legislation. The Ever Sigma – operated by Evergreen Marine – was en route from Greece to the Netherlands when 700 litres of heavy fuel oil went overboard. The incident occurred when the chief engineer decided to carry […]

  • 24 June 2013

    The Port of Tyne is preparing for the arrival of a second gantry crane for its Container Terminal at Tyne Dock in South Shields. The crane is due to arrive by ship on Tuesday (25 June). Coming ‘flat packed’, the £6m, 750-tonnes structure will be assembled piece by piece and is expected to be operational […]

  • 29 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has welcomed the guilty plea by Daina Shipping Co., the registered owners of the Rena, to a charge under the Resource Management Act relating to the discharge of harmful substances following the grounding of the ship in October 2011. Daina Shipping was today fined $300,000 in the Tauranga District Court on […]

  • 8 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    New Zealand has fined the captain of the 30,700 dwt containership Shansi NZD 3,000 (USD 2,200) for exceeding the alcohol limit for a seafarer. The 53-year-old Anthony Michael Baker, from Devon in the United Kingdom, was reported to Maritime New Zealand on August 4 for sailing the vessel while he was under the influence of alcohol. According to the pilots who […]

  • 12 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    In 2013, the Port saw cargo volumes increase by 25% to 8.1m tonnes, and turnover rose 16% to $123m compared to 2012. Andrew Moffat, Port of Tyne Chief Executive Officer, said that 2013 had been another record year, and looking back over five years, the Port had achieved substantial growth not only in the performance of […]

  • 10 June 2019

    Following convictions last year related to a North Sea bribery scheme, FH Bertling company has now also been a handed an £850,000 fine for a bribery scheme created to secure contracts in Angola.

  • 3 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    In a landmark case two divers from Kent have been made to pay a total of £63,500 in fines and costs for not declaring valuable items from shipwrecks off the UK coast. David Knight and Edward Huzzey, both from Sandgate, had previously pleaded guilty to 19 offences between them, contrary to section 236 and section […]

  • 4 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Fine Tubes, a UK-based manufacturer and distributor of precision tubes for critical applications, has been awarded an order by FMC Technologies for the supply of advanced tubing for Total’s offshore Egina project in Nigeria. Located some 150km off the coast of Nigeria at a depth of up to 1750m, the Egina oil field is being developed […]

  • 27 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    German conglomerate Siemens is getting closer to making its formal offer for the French company Alstom. According to Reuters, Siemens is expected to offer less than EUR 7 billion, which is almost a half of what GE is offering, together with its train business for Alstom’s energy business. Previously, it was believed the company’s cash […]