Key deals

The UK government has announced two major offshore renewable energy projects have been earmarked to receive a share of the £40bn government infrastructure guarantee scheme.

The Port of Antwerp has declared that everything is possible following the arrival there last month of the 18,000 TEU boxship Mary Maersk.

The Aigua Sea School in Mallorca purchased multiple NAUTIS Desktop Trainers to provide advanced simulator training for its students.

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has recently established a high profile framework agreement with Fugro EMU.

The European Commissioner for Transport, Siim Kallas, has signed an agreement towards funding support of €11.3m for a joint project called Twin-Ports, between the Port of Helsinki and the Port of Tallinn.

Work continues on the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Aalborg, Denmark, a facility that will greatly expand Alfa Laval’s marine testing capabilities.

The 53rd Marine Measurement Forum will take place on Thursday 28 November 2013 at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK.

The Maritime Academy of Toledo (Ohio USA) has reached an agreement with VSTEP BV of Rotterdam that will provide new simulators for the school and allow VSTEP to establish a NAUTIS maritime…

As a result of a European public tender, the Antwerp Port Authority appointed ship owning company EXMAR as its strategic partner for LNG bunkering in the port of Antwerp.

The merger between DNV and GL has been approved and the new company, DNV GL, is operational.

Geoquip Marine AG is embarking on a project in conjunction with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) and the British Geological Survey (BGS).

Royal Boskalis Westminster has completed the sale of the activities of Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT) for a total consideration of US$40m.

Kalmar has been commissioned by the Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co Ltd (ZPMC) to increase the operating height of four ship to shore (STS) cranes for APM Terminals Algeciras in southern Spain.

Italy’s Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract worth approximately € 70m for the connection of the island of Capri and Torre Annunziata (Naples) by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., a company…

Belgium headquartered international dredging contractor Jan de Nul has completed the first phase of its dredging project at Sabetta port in Russia.