Key deals

BigLift Shipping has appointed MIT SUD as exclusive agent for BigLift Shipping in Spain.

An international conference has examined how North Sea harbours can effectively harness smart energy solutions.

The Transas Group is streamlining its structure by appointing a new group director, Andrey Belentiev of its marine business unit.

For the first time since 2008, the Eurogate Group last year surpassed the 14m TEU mark, with 14.2m standard containers handled Europe-wide.

Germany’s Fraunhofer CML is looking at the problem of unmanned shipping – one of the main topics up for discussion at the e-Navigation Underway 2014 conference.

UK-based engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation, HR Wallingford, has developed a state-of-the-art tool to predict storm surges in UK waters.

SMIT Salvage, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV, is to remove a damaged jack-up platform from the seabed offshore Angola.