Key deals

France’s Nass&Wind Offshore has tested a floating platform off Saint-Vaast la Hougue (Manche) which will take environmental and technical measurements at sea for marine renewable energy (MRE) projects.

The UK’s Dyena can add another customer to its list of users of its motion recorder, the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS).

The developer behind the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project in the UK has finishing testing its 2D physical model of the site at HR Wallingford in Oxfordshire.

The UK’s National Renewable Energy Centre, Narec, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a top Swedish research institute to strengthen existing capability in offshore renewable energy.

Maritime Journal has learnt that the UK hydrographic survey expert, Coastline Surveys Ltd, has gone into liquidation.

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu launched this year’s World Maritime Day theme, ‘IMO conventions: Effective implementation’, last month.

Acta Marine has opened a new office in Paris in a bid to enhance its workboat support services for its French customers.

Following a presentation on Port Centricity at Seawork 2013, stakeholders from the English and French coastlines have met to discuss how collaboration and cooperation could ensure a sustainable future for the Channel.

Yanmar presented its newly launched engines with advanced technical features at the recent Boot Dusseldorf exhibition in Germany.

Bruntons Propellers has bought the worldwide manufacturing and marketing rights to the SigmaDrive – a deal completed at the London Boat Show last week.

The Portsmouth Shipbuilding UK group has welcomed the news that a new government minister has been appointed for the city calling it a “positive step forward” in restoring shipbuilding to the city.

E.ON is expanding its renewables business with the construction of a €1bn Amrumbank West windfarm in the North Sea, 37km northwest of the German island of Helgoland.

Imtech Marine of the Netherlands says that it has been contracted to provide the complete electrical and electronic systems for the LNG-fuelled ferry being built at Fassmer yard for AG Ems.

Dutch specialist in crew transfer vessel services to the offshore wind industry, Offshore Wind Services (OWS), is the first to order the next generation Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier 2610.