Key deals

MAN Truck & Bus has opened a new engine academy in Nuremburg to train service personnel in handling MAN engines.

The French boatbuilder ACCF exhibited for the first time at Seawork this year with a vessel on the floating pontoons.

Stern tube seal specialist, AEGIR-Marine, is to represent the Netherlands as a ‘National Champion’ in the 2013/14 European Business Awards (EBAs).

Damen Shipyards Group has won third prize at a competition for the Top 100 Dutch ‘green’ companies for its ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid.

Western Australia based shipbuilding company Strategic Marine, has delivered the ‘Jati Six’ crew transfer vessel for Malaysian based Dinasti Jti Sdn Bhd.

A rapid response by the RNLI resulted in 30 people surviving without injury when the Dutch tall ship Astrid hit rocks and sank on Ireland’s Cork coast on Wednesday.