Key deals

Trade association Interferry says that ferry operators in northern Europe face a near impossible choice in trying to meet the 2015 deadline for ultra low sulphur emissions from bunker fuel.

Wärtsilä announced on Tuesday that an agreement for the acquisition of UK engineering firm Hamworthy plc has been reached.

Long awaited plans to modernise the UKs HM Coastguard have been announced by Shipping Minister Mike Penning.

IMO secretary general, Efthimios E.Mitropoulos told delegates at the 27th IMO assembly this week that piracy and ships emissions have been central themes of the organisation’s work this year.

It has come to the notice of Mercator Media, publisher of ‘Maritime Journal’, that bogus organisations are continuing to contact subscribers, advertisers and exhibitors, supposedly on behalf of Mercator Media.

The commercial and leisure marine sectors are being asked to help support the UK based Mary Rose Trust in a big Christmas raffle to raise £10K for the charity.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents all sectors and trades of the global shipping industry, has produced a briefing document for government climate change negotiators.

Since it was launched at Seawork earlier this year, BMF Commercial Marine has gone from strength to strength and now has over 100 members working in the small craft commercial sector.

The public is being asked to get involved in the consultation process over whether an area of Dorset in the UK should be designated a new marine protected area.