Key deals

Consultants High-Point Rendel have won a contract for repairs to a berthing dolphin at the Immingham Oil Terminal . The contract, awarded by Humber Oil Terminals Trust , is for repairs to…

Proposals unveiled last month for a major £ 200m revamp of Portsmouth Naval Base to accommodate a new generation of larger warships include dredging the existing fairway 10ft deeper or creating a…

The restructuring of marine electronics specialists Kongsberg Maritime, announced at Nor-Shipping in June, came into effect on the first of this month. The subsidiaries Kongsberg Simrad and Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS)…

What is said to be Europes most advanced handling facility, the unique high-tech Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in Hamburg has handled morethan half a million TEUs in its first year of operation.

A vital causeway that links the residents of Roa Island, just off the northwest coast of England, to the mainland at Rampside in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria, is the focus of important sustainability…

With less than a year to run before all vessels trading internationally must be in compliance with the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, Det Norsk Veritas announced that the…

VT Halmatic has secured an order for a Pacific 28 RIB for Londons Metropolitan Police Service . The new boat will join the Mets existing Pacific 24 RIBs in patrolling the River…

The second of three much-praised, multi-functional patrol boats for the German Coastguard has been named and put into service by Parliamentary Secretary of State Ute Vogt after completion at Abeking & Rasmussen.

The joint application from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and the UKs national regeneration agency, English Partnerships, to transform 31 hectares of Liverpools waterfront into a major residential and leisure village…

Published on the final day of seawork2003 , Dive EnglandsGreatest Wrecks is the perfect companion for any diver interested in exploring Englandsmost exciting shipwrecks, preserved as time capsules of an era of…

After 27 years in the British Royal Navy, the author was Deputy Secretary ofThe Nautical Institute from 1984 until 1998 and is thus well placed to tell thestory of a new organisation…

Alfa Laval , specialists in oil treatment, desalinisation and heat transfer solutions for the marine, power and offshore industries, has acquired the Danish Toftejorg Group , including the advanced tank cleaning operation…

A new alliance has been formed between British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT) and International Infrastructure Management Pty Ltd (IIM) in Brisbane, Australia. The new company, to be called BMTMaritime Consultants Pty Ltd…

P&O and Stena AB have signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning Stena s proposed acquisition of a significant part of P&O s ferry operations on the Irish Sea.