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Princess Yachts’ executive director sales & marketing, Will Green, reflects on seismic shifts impacting the leisure marine market

NMMA Canada is seeking a new president after Sara Anghel announced she has accepted the role of president/CEO for the Greater Toronto Hotel Association. She will remain involved until 7 December 2022.

Mercury Marine has gained a zero-waste-to-landfill designation for its Plant 7 manufacturing operation in St. Cloud, Florida.

New Zealander Tom Saunders has received the Orbit World Travel Sailor of the Year Award, at the annual Aon Yachting Excellence Awards in Auckland.

The organisers of BoatLife 2023 say that the second edition of the show is shaping up to be an “action-packed event” with many new brands exhibiting.

Luxury cruise line Cunard has announced a new partnership with the nonprofit Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).

Silent-Yachts, builder of solar-electric yachts, has revealed its first dedicated tender design — the Silent Tender 400.

Videos circulating on social media show people attempting to save the stricken 33m Gulf Craft motor yacht Lusail Queen after it ran aground in Doha, Qatar.

The first version of the Yacht Environmental Transparency Index (YETI) was launched at this year’s METSTRADE and shared with key members of the industry.

‘Retrofit’, ‘refurb’ and ‘recycle’ are all parts of the circular economy’s language and are key tenets of the environmental push, which is slowly changing the way consumers buy across all industries. ...

The winners of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image photography competition have been announced at a prize-giving ceremony in Malta.

The Southampton-based sailing charity Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) has revealed a brand-new voyage programme for summer 2023.

The ‘Sunseeker Famous Five’ campaign, developed by the Sunseeker International in-house marketing department, has won the ‘Best Use of Innovation in Customer Engagement’ at the Engage Awards 2022. 

Emirates Team New Zealand have suffered damage to the bow of their AC40 today after an early start testing on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf in some top end conditions.

Following the flooding and sinking of his yacht Asteria on Friday (18 November), Finnish Tapio Lehtinen was successfully rescued around 24 hours later. He’d activated his liferaft’s Personal Locator Beacon at 0854 UTC and since the em...

Emirates Team New Zealand has suffered damage to the bow of its AC40 after an early start testing on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf in some top end conditions.

Royal Navy warships have begun their world cup security mission, spending the next two months safeguarding the waters around host nation Qatar.

Raymarine’s YachtSense Link marine router has won the 2022 DAME award in the category ‘Marine electronics and marine related software’. The innovative device is a multipurpose marine mobile router equipped with Raynet Ethernet p...

Disney has announced that it’ll be basing a cruise ship outside the USA . . . and it’s bought Global Dream. MIN regulars will remember this particular ill-fated ship’s sister Global Dream II which was destined for the scrap yard...

As world leaders gathered in Egypt for COP27 to discuss climate change, an oil terminal is reportedly dumping toxic wastewater into the country’s Red Sea, endangering a rare form of ‘super coral’ that offers hope for preserving ...