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New online tool helps marine businesses reduce insurance risks
Haven Knox-Johnston Commercial, the leading insurer for marine businesses, has launched an online tool to help all types of marine businesses judge their exposure to risk.
Called Your Benchmark Review, it's an online questionnaire that generates a report for understanding the distinctive risk profile of a business.
Risk management is the essence of insurance, and the key to business stability and long-term continuity. The resulting review is an independent health check that talks businesses through areas of risk that need to be addressed, but can also provide reassurance on…
30 September 2025
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Next-generation plastic reaches maturity as a narrowboat material
A pioneering plastics manufacturer has formed a new division to separate its growing boat-building business from its origins in everyday-plastics.
Formation Plastics caused a stir…
13 October 2025
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Controversy as T&M marina introduces car parking charges
Visitors to the eastern Trent & Mersey's Barton Marina have reacted with dismay after it introduced car parking charges for the first time from November. …
13 October 2025
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Harecastle Tunnel goes offline
Boaters’ hearts might have skipped a beat upon the news that the Canal & River Trust closed Harecastle Tunnel on 8th October “due to a…
13 October 2025
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Call for urgent reform of boat licensing in consultation report
The reform of boat licensing is urgently need, according to a new report following a consultation of boaters and other waterway supporters carried out earlier…
13 October 2025
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Erie Canal ‘not celebrated’ at World Canals Conference
The 2025 World Canals Conference was held in Buffalo, New York in September, marking the 200th anniversary of the completion of the first Erie Canal.…
13 October 2025
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Cruise Moor marinas win trophies
The nine family-run marinas making up the Cruise Moor scheme have been celebrating after three of them took awards in the THYA Marina of the…
13 October 2025
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Upgrade for Fazeley Mill Marina
The Rothen Group, a year on from its acquisition of Fazeley Mill Marina, is close to completing a six-figure investment in the 90-berth mooring near…
25 September 2025
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New owner for Aquavista
Aquavista Watersides and Marinas, the largest UK inland marina chain with 32 sites under its control, has been taken over by a €30bn international private…
24 September 2025
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CRT winter works programme published
In early September the Canal & River Trust published its final works programme for the coming winter.
The full list features 137 individual projects taking…
12 September 2025
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Reed beds soften Nottingham canal bank
In an attempt to bring more wildlife into Nottingham city centre, a series of floating ecosystems are being installed on the Nottingham & Beeston Canal.…
11 September 2025
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