Key deals

UK-headquartered defence company BAE Systems has confirmed that the first steel will be cut on the Royal Navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ships in Glasgow in summer 2017, subject to final contract…

3D printing is set to cause ‘turmoil’ in the ship building industry until 2050, according to the National Institute for Shipping and Shipbuilding (NISS).

The UK’s Automated Ships Ltd (an M Subs Ltd subsidiary) and Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the world’s first full-size unmanned and fully-automated offshore vessel.

MacArtney Underwater Technology Group has acquired the majority holding in Denmark-based ASME A/S.

The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) in Cleveland, Ohio has appointed UK based Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE), as engineering representative for Icebreaker Wind, the first freshwater offshore wind project in…