Vessels

Maritime Journal’s expert editors cover commercial marine vessel technologies such as electronics, navigation, monitoring & autonomy, along with ship & boatbuilding, financing, insuring and operating vessels safely. This section also features the latest news covering propulsion equipment as well as tugs, towing, and salvage.

Peter Morsbach,CEO Hoglund (L) and Rune Braastad,President ABBs Marine and Ports division

ABB announces plans to buy marine automation firm

2026-06-29T16:07:00+01:00

Swiss industrial technology company ABB will buy the Norwegian marine automation firm Høglund in a move designed to ‘complement ABB’s existing automation offering to marine customers and support further growth in markets across a wide range of vessel segments’.