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Rail & marine

Designers claim island-like vessel is future of yachting

IMechE calls for plan to address UK skills shortages

LDC set to invest in specialist engineering and manufacturing

Rolls-Royce's "beast of the seas"

Of cranes and catapults

Initiative set to save Network Rail almost £40m by 2014

Exhaust-gas scrubber hoped to cut ships' sulphur emissions

Project seeks more precision with data on sea conditions

Offshore challenges, engineering success and tapping into waste

Competition looks at access to wind farms in stormy weather

US adopts ‘first-inventor-to-file’ intellectual property rule

Railway project aims to reduce impact of leaves on the track