Publications

British Marine’s Key Performance Indicators for the Leisure, Superyacht & Small Commercial Marine Industry report is a biennial report that uses aggregated data shared by our members, combined with internal knowledge of non-members involved in the marine industry, to provide a robust economic audit of the industry. This report provides: Long-term trends for industry revenue and gross value added to UK Gross Domestic Product Data on revenue, exports, FTE employment an ...

The Recreational Craft Sectoral Group (RSG) was established to assist in the uniform application and interpretation of the Recreational Craft Directive by all Notified Bodies and other parties with valid interests. The new RSG guidelines, focused entirely on the new Recreational Craft Directive 2013/53/EU are available to download. Packed full of useful information, it's an invaluable publication for interested parties or better known as the RCD bible The RSG Guidelines are prepared to assi ...

The Technical Report 124 contains updates on for all regulatory changes over the last quarter, in this edition there is a new Industry Code of Best Practise for Water supply in marinas and Boatyards, a raft of updated MCA documents for commercial vessel operations and an update of the transition of the new non-road mobile machinery regulation for inland passenger vessels. ...

This 12th edition of the ICOMIA Small Craft Standards Bulletin provides an update of standards following a week of ISO TC 188 & SC 2 Working Group meetings which took place during the ISO TC 188 & SC 2 Plenary held in Toronto, Canada from the 24 – 28 June 2019. Further information regarding the structure of TC 188 as well as how ISO standards are developed and managed can be found in Appendix (1.) at the end of this bulletin. ...

Marine Protection IMEC has published its quarterly EU report on EU regulations affecting the marine industry at a global level. ...

ICOMIA commissioned public affairs specialists LOGOS has released the latest quarterly report on EU regulations affecting the marine industry at a global level. The report includes an analysis of recent policy developments, political debates, decisions and positions of relevant stakeholders as well as strategic analysis. ...

ICOMIA’s large yacht fit market report presents data sourced from a survey of ICOMIA Superyacht Refit Group (ISYRG) members and supported by AIS data. ISYRG represents approximately 40% of global refit projects, consisting of 12 shipyards. The data is collected over the period of 31 August – 1 September each year, and we now have data for the years 2017/18 and 2018/19. Although currently a short time frame, ICOMIA will continue to collect this data each year so that trends in the i ...

A practical river guide, a trade directory and the map helpful in locating the best boating facilities on the River Thames and connecting waterways. The River Thames Guide booklet is matched with the River Thames Guide App that you can download from www.riverthamesguide.net and then plan your boating journey afloat or your towpath ramble ashore. Both this Booklet and the App are free with the compliments of British Marine’s trade members and our navigation partners associated with boating ...

In response to the concerns of British Marine members, detailed research was undertaken during 2017 to establish the facts behind perceived industry views regarding the future shape of the consumer market. Specifically, leisure boating customer numbers appear to be declining with fewer younger or new customers taking their place. Four specific areas were researched: Social context of future customers Statistics & Trends Emerging themes Benchmarking against other leisure sect ...