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Four in five workers now employed in building a huge wind turbine monopile factory have come from the region. Postcode data has shown around 80% of those employed on the SeAH Wind site come from within 30 miles – with almost 200 people now in work on the vast complex. The mammoth £450million mo...

25 additional scholarships awarded to students from South Tyneside, Redcar and Cleveland and East Riding of Yorkshire to help young people prepare for working life in a net zero world. 50 scholarships in total have now been awarded to help students unlock their potential. The students are unde...

North Star has secured a £140million financing package to support the next phase of its ambitious offshore wind growth plan as it looks to broaden its position as the UK’s leading service operations vessel (SOV) operator and seize new opportunities in Europe.  The investment includes a £50million...

PD Ports has welcomed the first vessel call on a brand new, dedicated service from Spain and Portugal into Teesport. The Kristin Schepers, a vessel capable of carrying 800 containers, arrived at Teesport on Tuesday after a four-day sailing from Aveiro in Portugal to discharge containerised cargo...

In these challenging and uncertain times: climate change, rising energy costs, financial instability and the uncertainty of the geopolitical landscape, the energy we use and the security around this has become ever more important. To meet Paris Agreement targets aiming to limit increase in global...

Red Rooster Lifting has agreed with Street Crane Company Ltd to enter into a strategic agreement, being appointed as a distributor in Scotland for their range of wire rope hoists and crane systems. Red Rooster has a clear vision to look after every single client’s lifting and load measuring requi...

Kloeckner Metals UK is pleased to announce that it has achieved the BES 6001 “Excellent” rating for its Leeds, Westok, Thurrock and Dudley sites. Assessed by BSI, the BES 6001 certification allows Kloeckner Metals to demonstrate that its products are made with constituent materials that have been...

Osprey Group have added two new crawler cranes to their fleet – a 400-ton Demag CC2400-1 and a 650-ton Demag CC3800-1. The 400-ton Demag CC2400-1 will be dispatched to its first project within the next few weeks, while the 650-ton Demag CC3800-1 will arrive early in February 2023. After commiss...

MASS TANK and STEEL INSPECT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the delivery of professional management and service contracts relating to quality management systems and onshore and offshore monitoring and construction supervision for the north American offshore wind energy sector....

Transitioning the global economy out of its current reliance on fossil fuels is a massive, complex and nuanced undertaking. Fossil fuels represent 80% of current global energy consumption. The market for them is more than $6 trillion per year. The use of fossil fuels continues to expand faster th...