Key deals

On the eve of the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1885, a majority interest in America’ s portable dredger manufacturer Ellicott Dredge Enterprises LLC has been acquired by Markel Ventures, a…

With full support from EXS Subsea AS, a Norwegian oil and gas investment company, Graeme Kidd has led a successful management buyout of Oceanteam Subsea Services Ltd and launched the new company…

Marine South East in the UK has won a £ 50k bid to run a Knowledge Network exploring the exploitation and use of marine energy resources (MEREX). The commercial incentive to reduce…

UK maritime training provider Clyde Marine Training won an award for Best Performing Business with 25 employees or less at the recent Glasgow Business award ceremony. The company’ s recent diversification contributed…

Finnlines is opening a passenger ship line to Rostock on STAR class ro-pax vessels. The German stop of the current Travemü nde-Gdynia-Helsinki line will be moved to Rostock. The aim is to…

UK based marine electronic service and dealerships, Ships Electronic Services Ltd (SES), has acquired the assets and goodwill of Humber Telecommunications Ltd (Humber Telecom), which will now continue trading as Ships Electronic…

The Netherlands’ Alphatron Marine BV has introduced an affordable solution in maritime communications, aiming  at the ever growing  demand for internet solutions on board vessels.  The Alphasatsea is a stand alone, self-tracking…

ACR Electronics Europe Gmbh has been awarded two contracts valued at € 1.25m to build, ship and install complete Inland - Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) in the pilot project ‘ Corridor 895’…