Key deals

Wärtsilä Corporation acknowledged recent speculation about a potential transaction between Rolls-Royce Plc and Wärtsilä in a statement issued yesterday by the Wärtsilä Board of Directors.

The French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea (Ifremer) has acquired a Simrad multibeam echosounder from Kongsberg Maritime to help strengthen its research work in the Mediterranean Sea.

The port of Antwerp is expected to have handled a total freight volume of 190.6 million tonnes over 2013 as a whole, representing an increase of 3.5% compared with 2012 when the…

The sea trials of Autonomous Surface Vehicles’ (ASV) latest vehicle, the C-Enduro, have begun in Porchester, UK.

Dutch company Royal Boskalis says that the tug ‘Smit Elbe’, which is based in the port of Rotterdam, has become the first tug in the Netherlands to be fuelled with Shell GTL.

Following failed attempts by three icebreakers to reach the research vessel ‘MV Akademik Shokalskiy’ trapped in the Antarctic ice, its 54 stranded passengers were rescued by helicopter on Thursday.

Scorpion Ribs is the latest user of the Dyena Acceleration Recorder (DaccR), a portable data logger that provides information on ride quality and performance.