There are historic records of small boats being built in Belfast as long ago as 1636. At that time it was populated by approximately 2,500 people and only a small amount of ships were built as ...

play Belfast shifts from linen to ships How Belfast built on its linen industry to become a major shipbuilding city. Using archive footage, historian Neil Oliver explains how Belfast transferred ...

Belfast Harbour has unveiled a £313m, five-year plan to help it welcome some of the world’s largest cruise ships. The strategy, which is entitled Advance Regional Prosperity 2025-2029 ...

After a decade of piecemeal change at Belfast Harbour, can the Northern Irish capital's new waterside developments create a ...

VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day and commemorates the moment when the Second World War came to an end in Europe. On 8 ...

Belfast-based Artemis Technologies has built the UK’s first fully electric foiling pilot boat for the Port of Tyne in the ...

Trade through Belfast Harbour increased by 200,000 tonnes during 2024 as the flow of goods and commodities held its own in ...

HMS Somerset kept watch over the Russian corvette Boikiy for three days as it escorted merchant vessel Baltic Leader on its ...

Cruise Belfast, a partnership between Belfast Harbour and Visit Belfast, reported that 60 ships from 35 cruise lines had docked in the port, bringing 260,000 passengers and crew to Northern ...

The harbour also welcomed 60 cruise ships, up from 57 in 2023, bringing an estimated 260,000 passengers and crew to the city.

Trade through Belfast Harbour increased slightly in 2024, according to new figures, as the shipping of key goods and commodities in and out of Northern Ireland remained resilient to ...