The UK’s biggest listed ports operator saw shares surge almost 25 per cent today after the firm revealed a £612m takeover approach by a group of major shareholders, including Manchester Ship Canal and Mersey Docks owner Peel Ports. Forth Ports owns seven UK ports, including Tilbury in London, Scotland’s largest container port at Grangemouth, and Leith in Edinburgh.

A new jobs website targeting the oil and gas industry has recently gone live after much anticipation. www.oilandgaspeople.com promises to revolutionise the recruitment industry and follows a new model designed to offer candidates and recruiters a better solution.

Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina have offered to pay $3.3bn Australian dollars (£2bn) for Arrow Energy, the owner of Australia's biggest reserves of gas trapped in coal.

In the search for better returns, John Baron looks at some out-of-favour sectors for investment trusts

DUBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Middle East oil demand could grow by nearly 5 percent in 2010, outpacing a modest recovery in global energy demand as the world's top oil exporting governments continue spending petrodollars to boost economies, analysts said.

Despite the fact that various regulations have been passed through Parliament regarding energy efficient light bulbs it seems that the vast majority of those available to UK consumers and UK businesses still remain unused. The Energy Saving Trust estimates that of the 224 million ...

Energy firm E.ON will cut its standard gas tariff by 6% from the end of the month

India has adopted a turboprop design for its first indigenous regional aircraft and has released preliminary specifications for the planned 70-seater. National...

I've requested to use my last eight days annual leave but my boss says the business is too busy and I can't have time off. Have I lost my holiday allowance?

No, there hasn’t been an explosion in the Asahi Super Dry factory. But it might be almost as bad. SocGen’s Dylan Grice has a note up on Japanese government bonds (JGBs) –...