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Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sails from Portsmouth for her autumn deployment.
Check which rates of Air Passenger Duty you need to pay if you’re a plane operator, and how to fill in your return to HMRC.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
Check what safety requirements and insurance are needed to use a boat on UK rivers, canals, or at sea - boat safety certificates, safety regulations and equipment, disposing of old flares
The stability guidance booklets for masters and watch keepers for powered and sailing vessels
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
Find out the procedures you'll need to follow to zero rate VAT for the supply of a sailaway boat.
Small Vessel Engineer Officers (Yachts, Sail Training and Small Vessels)
Register or license a boat for use on the UK's inland waterways or at sea - which authority to register with, the UK Ship Register and Small Ships Register, penalties and fines
FCDO travel advice for South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
The current conditions affecting boaters on the River Thames and what the warnings mean.
Guidance for operators of Thames sailing barges.
Location: Thames Estuary off Southend-on-Sea, England.
Details of access points, events and facilities on the River Wye.
We have issued a safety bulletin to the cruise industry to highlight the importance of using anchoring equipment within its intended design parameters.
Location: Stokes Bay, near Gosport, England.
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