Key deals

India’ s National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has taken delivery of the multi-purpose oceanographic ship Sagar Nidhi (Pearl of the Oceans) from Fincantieri’ s Muggiano Shipyard in La Spezia.

Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’ s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure…

Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead…

Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats  has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS.

Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry ' Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal.

Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.

Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and…

Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future…

In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt…

Rolls-Royce has won £ 72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £ 155m.

The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)  last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides.

When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week…

British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’ s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’ s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to…