Hutchison Ports Harwich International has become a new base for the British Antarctic Survey’s two ice-strengthened Royal Research Ships, the RRS James Clark Ross and the RRS Ernest Shackleton. The ...

Harwich Port has become a new base for two polar ice ships en route for Antarctica, where they will help us to better understand the changes that we are making to the earth’s climate. The British ...

Twenty young people have set sail on a four-night voyage to learn new skills and build confidence. The children, from Harwich, Essex, are aged between 12 and 15 and will sail to Portsmouth on yachts ...

The first cruise ship of the season has arrived in Harwich this morning, with around 2,250 passengers onboard. Shops in Harwich and Dovercourt have opened up as part of a special welcome for the ...

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service was called at 4.20am to the port in Parkeston Quay, after being alerted by the Coastguard that there was a fire aboard a 400-passenger ship, the Stena Britannica, ...

If you were asked to name one of the world’s greatest harbours, what would you come up with? New York? Hong Kong? Sydney? Chances are, you wouldn’t say Harwich. But the fact is, the confluence of the ...

A charity aims to put Harwich back at the heart of the Pilgrim Fathers story by building a £2.5m replica of the ship which sailed to America in 1620. The Mayflower left Plymouth in Devon on 6 ...