Key deals

UK ferry operator Severn Link, which recently announced plans to launch the first regular modern ferry service across the Bristol Channel, connecting Swansea and Ilfracombe, has taken delivery of the first ferry…

Construction of the second in a pair of new ships for P&O Ferries has started at the yard of STX Europe in Rauma, Finland.

The 53rd UNB-OMB/UNH-CCOM Multibeam Sonar Training Course, co-hosted by the Swedish Maritime Administration, will be held 15-20 March 2010, at the Malmö Börshus, Skeppsbron 2, SE-211 20 Malmö, Sweden.

Following Orolia’s acquisition of Kannad in September 2009 and of McMurdo in November (forming Orolia’s new Positioning Division), a new strategy has been implemented for both companies.

MAN Nutzfahrzeuge transfered part of its business involving high speed engines to the group’s sister company, MAN Diesel, effective from the first of this month.

A new trade association armed with a broad mandate to represent and promote the health and medical interests of the world’s seafarers, port workers and cruise passengers as well as improve shipboard…

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced that Mr. René Kolman assumed the position of Secretary General from the first of this month.

Warnemunde in northern Germany is the venue for Hydro 2010, the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 18th biennial European hydrographic conference, which will be held from 2 to 5 November.

Fox Delta Limited has launched as a specialist provider of land and maritime security risk management, training and related services.

The Georgia USA based manufacturer of fibreglass marine wet exhaust mufflers and systems, Centek Industries, has appointed the German importer and distributor of technical boat equipment, Bukh Bremen GmbH, to distribute Centek’s…

The British Fluid Power Association (BFPA), has launched a new one day Foundation Course in Working Safely with Hydraulic Hose and Connectors, so that people can work more safely with hydraulics.

Those who make all the rules and regulations that govern the design and operation of ships need to be sensitive to human element implications in all that they do according to the…

Turkish communications and technology company Turkcell will collaborate with Turkey’s Directorate General of Coastal Safety for its pioneering ‘Remote Management of Lighthouses’ project, which will bring the latest technology to lighthouses and…