Key deals

Chinese shipping company, Cosco’s latest container carrier, the Cosco Belgium, has moored in the Port of Antwerp – the 55th ultra large container ship to call at the port.

Van Oord’s newest addition to its fleet, the self-propelled cutter suction dredger ‘Artemis’, is departing for western France on its first assignment with the Grand Port Maritime de la Rochelle this week.

GeoSea, specialised company of Belgium’s Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) Group, has secured two new contracts for the UK and German windfarms Westermost Rough and Borkum Riffgrund 1 respectively.

EVENT: The South West region of the British Marine Federation (BMF) is holding a business networking event at Plymouth University on 11 June 2013.

Global classification society, ABS, has released a complete Guide for Building and Classing Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Installations, based on the results of case studies and existing technologies.

Global dredging company, Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (Boskalis) has acquired a €74m dredging contract from German water and shipping office, Wasser-und Schifffahrtsamt Cuxhaven.

Global marine engine and equipment manufacturer, Yanmar Group, has acquired Netherlands based marine equipment producer, VETUS.

Sal Heavy Lift, a member of Japanese shipping company K Line Group, has moved its head office to a maritime location at HafenCity in Hamburg.

LAUNCH: Leeds based, marine electrical specialist, Axon Components, has launched its new website which has been updated to feature its complete standard product range.

The Swedish Maritime Administration has issued an extension of the ongoing MONALISA project, MONALISA 2.0, to implement actions and studies that will encourage the deployment of new maritime services and processes.

At a ceremony in London, MJ founder and inaugural editor, Peter Moth, received one of the UK’s top maritime honours when he was sworn in as a Younger Brother of Trinity House.

The Transport Research Institute (TRI) at Edinburgh Napier University is offering a free course on Multimodal Transport Economics relating to Motorways of the Sea.

Dutch propeller expert, Maritime Propeller Repairs (MPR), is doing so well that it has recently moved from its old workshop at Asperen to a new premises in Drunen, The Netherlands, to achieve…

The well known Seaward range of boats, previously manufactured by Seaward Marine, are back on the market and being sold by the new UK venture, The Boat Development Company Ltd, which will…

Following the UK government’s confirmation of the freeze in light dues for 2013 to 2014, the Independent Light Dues Forum (ILDF) is calling for further reductions next year.

Germanys Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH has contracted out two of its windfarm service vessels for work at two European windfarms.