Key Deals – Page 189
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News'Chip Shop' by sea wins design award
A 21st century pier for New Brighton inspired by a tea house and a chip shop has won the top award in a student contest to design a water feature for the Merseyside resort.
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NewsMJ 250th Issue - Marine Construction
The credit crunch may be having an adverse effect on almost every industry, including investment in ports and marine infrastructure, but recent investments by some of the biggest and best known names in the business suggest that companies believe they can ride out the seeming slump in demand and that ...
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NewsOffshore breeze with Wind Farm Wildcat
Ireland’ s Safehaven Marine is expanding its Wildcat catamaran range with a new 50ft/16m version aimed specifically at the wind farm market.
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News31st IADC seminar spotlights Abu Dhabi
At the very end of 2008, twenty professionals from around the world got acquainted with dredging and its challenges during the 31st IADC International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation.
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Oil Spill Response
Oil Spill Response Limited & East Asia Response Limited, the world’ s largest international oil spill response organisation, has been renamed Oil Spill Response.
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Marcon's record year
Washington USA based shipbroker Marcon International celebrated a record year by completing three deals on the final day of 2008.
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Offshore wind abstracts
A call for abstracts has been issued by the organisers of the European Offshore Wind 2009 Conference & Exhibition, which will take place in Stockholm on 14-16 September.
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Axis Drive deal
South Africa’ s Caudwell Marine has signed an agreement with Golden Arrow Marine of Southampton UK for the sales, distribution and service support for its range of Axis Drive propulsion systems in the UK and Europe.
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Collision lookout failure
A German shipowner has pleaded guilty before a regional court in the UK to three merchant shipping vessel safety offenses following a collision between a coaster and the East Goodwin Light Vessel in February 2007.
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Hagglunds' marine facility
Hagglunds Drives has begun building customised power units for their hydraulic drive systems, particularly for marine applications.
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ISP management buy-out
The management team of International Safety Projects Ltd has completed a £ 4m buy-out of what they claim to be the world’ s largest manufacturer of inflatable marine lifejackets.
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Fos'inland links
The French port of Marseilles Fos has initiated a promotional partnership with eight inland ports serving its crucial north-south hinterland along the Rhone-Saone corridor.
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RNLI funds success
More than £ 3,500 was raised before Christmas for the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Newcastle based marine rigging specialists Storrar Marine.
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Maritime jobs guide
Sea Vision UK, a nationwide campaign to raise the profile of the sea and maritime sector, has launched the latest, largest version of its Maritime Careers Guide, a magazine profiling different jobs across the maritime sector.
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NewsBourbon fined for Dolphin capsizing
Norway’ s national prosecutor, Bjoern Soknes, has fined Bourbon Offshore Norway AS 5m kroner (some £ 500,000) this week for failures which led to the deaths of eight people when the AHTS Bourbon Dolphin capsized off Shetland in April 2007.
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NewsFebruary's MareNet examines global marine opportunities
Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), will launch the findings of its Global Opportunities research at February’ s MareNet event which will take place on Tuesday 10 February at the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble.
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NewsForeign Secretary visits Port of Tyne
Taking time out from his busy schedule during the week before Christmas, the UK’ s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband MP, took the opportunity to visit the Port of Tyne to meet Andrew Moffat, the port’ s new CEO.
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NewsSAR frequencies change to be implemented
The UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a reminder to seafarers of important changes to the operating frequencies of the Cospas-Sarsat satellite based distress alerting service.
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NewsEquipment suppliers lead EU electric ship study
BMT Defence Services Limited is heading a consortium of 30 companies to investigate the commercially effective application of electric ship technology in a € 23m European Union funded project.
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NewsWind farm project is workboat magnet
The construction of the Gunfleet Sands wind farm off the Essex UK coast got underway at the end of August, since when a fleet of specialist vessels has arrived in the area.
