Key deals

KEY DEALS

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Vestas Wind Systems AS have set up a new joint-venture (JV) company dedicated to business in offshore wind turbines.

1st October 2013

New offshore joint venture

1st October 2013

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Alnmaritec has delivered the second of the new Wave Captain class of windfarm support vessels being built for Rix Shipping.

30th September 2013

Alnmaritec delivery

30th September 2013

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Kongsberg GeoAcoustics has completed its Swedish Coast Guard (KBV) project with the installation of a 125 kHz GeoSwath on the fourth and final multipurpose vessel.

27th September 2013

Kongsberg completes KBV project

27th September 2013

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The UK Environment Agency is looking for a contractor to deliver flood prevention work in the Thames Estuary worth up to £485m.

26th September 2013

Thames Estuary plan

26th September 2013

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Dutch workboat operator Acta Marine is gearing up for Round 3 windfarm development by ordering a new multi purpose vessel available to charter in early 2014.

26th September 2013

New offshore wind MPV

26th September 2013

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Royal Boskalis Westminster is to dredge and construct the Bronka Port shipping channel in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, as part of a €130m contract.

26th September 2013

Boskalis dredging contract

26th September 2013

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SMS Towage has invested more than £5m in a new operation at Belfast harbour in response to demand from port users.

25th September 2013

New SMS Towage operation

25th September 2013

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Total throughput in the Port of Hamburg in the first six months of 2013 reached 68.1m tonnes, an improvement of 3.5% on 2012.

20th September 2013

Hamburg growth

20th September 2013

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Marine civil engineering consultants Peter Fraenkel & Partners Ltd has joined forces with international, multidisciplinary civil engineering consultants NIRAS A/S to form a strong European marine engineering company.

20th September 2013

Civils join forces

20th September 2013

DESIGN

DESIGN

Naval architects BMT Nigel Gee’s latest partnership with Ares Shipyard in Turkey involves the design and build six 18m patrol boats from advanced composites, for the Bahrain Coast Guard.

20th September 2013

Design/build partnership

20th September 2013

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Turkmenistan has launched a $2bn project to build a new port on the Caspian Sea, designed to boost exports.

19th September 2013

New Caspian port

19th September 2013

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KEY DEALS

Alphatron Marine of Rotterdam’s Alphatron Training Centre has received the official Letter of Recognition from the Minister of infrastructure and Environment (also called the Netherlands Shipping Inspectorate.)

19th September 2013

ECDIS certified

19th September 2013

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The UK’s Meercat Workboats has raised the bar in workboat design again with its latest dual lift design.

18th September 2013

New Meercat design

18th September 2013

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Predictions on the future of the seas off the UK south coast are outlined in a report published last month by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).

18th September 2013

MMO marine plan

18th September 2013

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KEY DEALS

The MacArtney Group has signed a representative agreement with Escort Sp. z.o.o. to function as official MacArtney agent in Poland.

18th September 2013

Polish agent

18th September 2013

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Described as the largest and most expensive salvage operation ever undertaken, the Costa Concordia has been righted in an operation that took 19 hours and cost upwards of £500m (€600m).

17th September 2013

Concordia upright

17th September 2013

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IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomed the entry into force of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006) last month, adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a sister UN agency to IMO.

17th September 2013

MLC treaty welcomed

17th September 2013

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Maritime security solutions provider AdvanFort has opened an office in Hamburg, Germany, as part of its growing and far reaching customer service network, particularly for clients in Europe.

16th September 2013

Hamburg security office

16th September 2013

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KEY DEALS

Kewatec AluBoat Oy, based at Kokkola in Finland, has signed an agreement with Chinese Conglin Group establishing a JV, Shandong ConglinKEWA Aluminum Boat Co, Ltd.

16th September 2013

Finland to China

16th September 2013

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KEY DEALS

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has published BS 6349-1-1: Code of practice for planning and design for operations.

13th September 2013

Maritime structures

13th September 2013