Key deals

A contract worth over £ 1m to provide the MCA operated Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS) system for the Dover Strait has been won by Norcontrol IT.

The Ice Challenger expedition has achieved its goal of becoming the first to cross the treacherous 24 miles of floating ice and open water which make up the Bering Strait between Wales…

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency in Southampton has found an ideal camera for its aerial marine pollution surveillance work in the unlikely world of microscopic research.

A major international gathering of navigation experts attended the Fourth International VTS Workshop of IALA, hosted by South Tyneside College in the UK.

Smits largest sheerlegs, Asian Hercules II, has installed a 1,000 tonnes transformer substation module for the worlds largest offshore windfarm at Horns Rev off Denmark. The lift was performed on behalf of…

Germanys lifeboat service DGzRS in Bremen has added the new delta-hulled, wide-stern rescue boat Woltera to its fleet of more than 60 versatile lifeboats and rescue cruisers.

Lemwerder, Lower Saxony, workboat specialist Abeking & Rasmussen is on target to complete the first of a trio of state-of-the-art environmental protection patrol boats this Autumn for the German Coast Guard.

The Savannah Pilots Association in Georgia USA have been operating their 57 aluminium pilot boat since 1984. Built at Louisianas Breaux Bay Craft, the boat has served them well. When a repower…

The contract to demolish the existing riverside facility and rebuild a new jetty at Denton Wharf, Gravesend, has been awarded to Mowlem Marine, a division on John Mowlem and Company, by the…

A new product from Letchworth UK-based dataTaker Ltd can be used in the marine industries to monitor the temperature of composites during construction.

The largest ropax ferry ever to sail under the Spanish flag has been delivered by IZARs Seville yard to owner Trasmediterranea. The 180m long Murillo was delivered almost two months early and…

From 1 July of this year, ships are required to carry emergency escape breathing devices (EEBDs) in accordance with amendments to IMO SOLAS legislation.

The new supply vessel North Mariner, named in a ceremony last month, is the first British ordered vessel to be built to DNVs new environmental class.

County Antrim-based Fast Engineering has secured a contract which makes the Japanese Coast Guard the first overseas customer for its new Fastank Bund Secondary Containment System (FBSCS).