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Water transport

August 2023

  • Rescue team bring survivors ashore, after a boat carrying migrants from France sank in the Channel

    Calls for safe routes for refugees mount after six more Channel drownings

  • A ferry crossing the Channel from Dover, Kent

    Weekend winds expected to disrupt UK ferry and train travel

July 2023

  • Traffic queuing on the A20 for the Port of Dover in Kent on Saturday.

    Dover queues begin to shorten after morning of long waits for travellers

    Port says waiting time down to 45 minutes after ferry passengers faced two-and-a-half hour delays on Saturday morning

  • Typhoon Doksuri: ferry capsizes in Philippines, killing dozens – video

    Rescuers have been searching for victims after a ferry capsized in the Philippines as Typhoon Doksuri battered parts of the country

    • Philippines: 26 people killed after overloaded ferry capsizes amid Typhoon Doksuri winds

    • Cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles continues to burn off Dutch coast – video

    • Other lives
      Claudia Mason obituary

June 2023

  • Clockwise from top left: Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and son Sulaiman, Hamish Harding.

    Titanic sub: what we know about the victims of deep-sea tragedy

    Five people who were on the Titan submersible thought to have died instantly when vessel imploded

  • British tourists missing after boat bursts into flames off Egypt's coast – video

    Three British tourists are missing after a diving boat they were cruising in caught fire off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Sunday
  • The midnight sun illuminates melting sea ice along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian archipelago.

    Weatherwatch
    Foggy future for Arctic shipping as sea ice melts

    By 2100 increased fogginess caused by global warming could add days to travel in the region

May 2023

  • Passengers using electronic passport gates at Stansted airport.

    Travellers faced long queues at major UK airports after electronic passport gates failed

    Hours-long delays were reported as IT problems also caused disruption on Dover-Calais ferries
  • Members of the armed forces will be given five days’ training before checking passports at Heathrow (pictured), Gatwick and Dover.

    Soldiers to be trained to check passports amid UK fears of summer travel chaos

    Exclusive: Unions say move will diminish national security, with temporary staff unable to detain suspected terrorists

  • India: at least 22 dead after tourist boat overturns in Kerala state – video

    Vessel capsized because it was overcrowded, authorities say, with most of the victims children on school holidays

April 2023

  • MV Pentalina

    Passengers rescued by lifeboat after Orkney ferry runs aground

  • Ferry passengers at the Port of Dover

    Travellers crossing Channel from UK face 90-minute delays on Good Friday

  • Penlee lifeboat station being preserved<br>Penlee Lifeboat House and Slipway, Penlee Point, Mousehole, Cornwall. Detail view of west elevation to road showing upper window and signage. View from west. Built 1911-13 to a design by W. T. Douglass, engineer and architect to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

    Penlee lifeboat station saved for nation 42 years on from tragedy

  • Lou McKeever 04.04.2023

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Lou McKeever on travel delays at Dover – cartoon

  • ‘Gutted and livid’: parents vent anger over children caught in Dover chaos

  • Port of Dover adds overnight sailings to help clear severe coach backlog

March 2023

  • From left, Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak meet to announce details of the Aukus submarine pact.

    Size of UK’s nuclear submarine fleet could double under Aukus plans

    First of new vessels expected to be seaworthy by the end of 2030s, with Australia receiving theirs in early 2040s
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