Key deals

Mersey Docks and Harbour Company The has posted a healthy 5.9% boost in underlying pre-tax profit on a turnover up by 6.9% in its interim results for the first half of 2004.…

H4 Marine Ltd of Devon UK has supplied the RNLI with two QuicKutter SH25 rope cutters which will be trialled on the new pre-production Tamar class of offshore lifeboats currently being completed…

Tickets go on sale this month for the first exhibition to explore together the lives of two dominant leaders and adversaries, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon Bonaparte.

As part of its contribution to SeaBritain 2005 , the National Maritime Museum has created an innovative on-line resource that helps maritime organisations develop high quality, curriculum relevant educational material.

Container handling growth at the French Port of Marseilles was up by 10% in the eight months to the end of August, with a throughput of 608,000 TEU. East-west volumes through Fos…

The International Institute of Welding has awarded Lloyds Register and TWI Ltd the bi-annual Andre Leroy Prize for their computerised non destructive examination (NDE) training aid, in recognition of its excellence as…

Over the next ten years, 340,000 lorry journeys will be taken off the roads of Worcestershire UK as the consequence of a £ 1m Freight Facilities Grant awarded last month by the…

German authorities have taken delivery of the countrys latest 21.3m long multi-purpose buoy layer from Fassmer in Berne/ Motzen after an investment of ¢ 2.2m.

Denmarks Viking Life Saving Equipment has appointed Marine Safety Supplies (MSS) of Wallsend UK as the new distributor and authorised service station for Vikings range of sea safety products in the North…

Published on the 20th of this month to accompany a major exhibition at Londons Victoria and Albert Museum,which runs from 23 September to 5 December, this lavish and sumptuouslyillustrated volume explores the…

In a drive to renew the economic prosperity of European port cities, the UKs Southampton Institute is contributing environmental expertise to a new international partnership initiative.

ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) has launched an online guide to identify how UK estuaries will change over time and promote better sustainable management.