Key deals

James Fisher created the largest UK owned shipping and marine services group last month with the £ 350m purchase of rival product tanker operator FT Everard.

The second conference on The Science of Making Torque from Wind has been scheduled for 28 to 31 August at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) at Lyngby, 10 miles north of…

A technologically advanced new hoist for the expanded apron at East Cowes UK is now in operation.  The 10m wide hoist dock and crane is suitable for transporting both blades for wind…

With the current regulatory climate creating a financial and manpower burden to UK businesses, a new website launched this month aims to help small and medium sized businesses comply with waste legislation. …

Germanys RENK AG has indicated its intention to take over MAAG Gear AG of Winterthur in Switzerland.  MAAG makes turbo and marine gears.

A conference on Water Status Monitoring under the WFD will be held in Lille, France on 12-14 March 2007.

The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) has launched a new marine proffesional employment service for its 15,000 members in over 100 countries.  The service is open to marine companies…

The Holland Marine Equipment Association (HME) has launched a restyled website at www.hme.nl, where visitors can find information about Dutch equipment and maritime suppliers or subscribe for email postings of HME sponsored…

The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents some 1,250 companies across Europe, has welcomed the Draft EP TRAN Committee Reports amendments to the European Commissions Draft Classification Societies Directive.

HRH The Princess Royal visited the SouthamptonSeafarers Centre recently to attend the annual meeting of volunteers andsupporters.

Bureau veritas latest takeover bid for rival classification society Germanischer Lloyd has been rejected as hostile by the GL Works Council, which has three representatives on the seven member board which will…

Container throughput at the French port of Marseilles-Fos rose by 4% for the ten months to the end of October, including a 7% increase to 542,000 TEU on east-west trades through Fos,where…

This book provides details on over 2,800 of theworlds commercially active ports and over 19,000 port facilities and serviceswithin these ports to ensure the reader has the best knowledge to conductbusiness activities…

The Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) of the UK unveiled plans last month at Sail Training Internationals annual conference in Poland to compete in the Tall Ships Race 2008 with the competitions first…

Never Turn Backfeatures evidence from the RNLI archives to show how the fiercely independentRNLI was nearly taken over by the Government in the 1970s.