Key deals

Naval architects and marine engineering consultants Houlder Ltd has acquired bespoke ship designers Hart Fenton from the Sea Containers Group, expanding its capability and capacity for new ship design.

Cargo throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos for the period of January through August reached 65.8m tons, a 19% increase on the same period a year ago.

The price given for the book Ship Stability for Masters and Mates in the October issueof Maritime Journal was incorrect.  The price of the book is £ 29.99.

Tideland Signal has appointed Mediterraneo Senales Maritimas (MsM) as its agent for its range of Navaids in mainland Spain, the Ballearic and Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.  Based near Valencia, MsM was…

Rotterdam based Alphatron Marine, distributor, supplier, engineers and fitters of navigation and communication equipment, officially opened their Belgian office last month to answer the strong rise for service attendances and requests for…

Ownership of the Dutch heavy lift operator Mammoet has changed, with the private capital group SHV taking a 75% stake in the operation.  The Van Seumeren family, which founded Mammoet 40 years…

This book is the last in six volumes of WhiteFunnel Fleet history from 1887 to 1968 and the second of two volumes dealingspecifically with the years prior to the First World War.

Sartech Engineering Ltd, the Surrey based supplier of EPIRBs and other electronic emergency equipment, has reached an agreement to supply products and services to Selex Communications Ltd, which has 18 depots throughout…

This book is recognised as one of the mostinfluential loss prevention guides in the shipping industry.

Lloyds Register Quality Assurance ,(LRQA) has issued its first ISO/PAS 28000 certificate for international supply chain security to global container port terminal operators DP (Dubai Ports) World.

Scan Tech UK and Monyana Engineering Services joined forces last month to become Fisher Offshore following the acquisition of Monyana by James Fisher Plc last year.

The UK Environment Agency is inviting the submission of synopses of papers for potential presentation in the 2007 Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Conference, which will be held at the University…

Following its acquisition by L-3 Communications of New York, SAM Electronics is now a member of L-3s Power and Control Systems Group, comprising 10 companies primarily involved in the marketing of complementary…

Bourbon Orca, the first ship to be built to the backwards sloping X-Bow design, won the Norwegian Ship of the Year award at SMM in Hamburg last month.