Key deals

The Bodan Shipyard in Kressbronn has won a Europe wide tender worth ¢ 11m to build its twelfth ferry for service with operators Stadtwerke Konstanz on Lake Constance from Spring 2010.

The Ice Chaser survey team on board the James Clark Ross returned last week from its exploration of the Arctics sea ice with news on the environment, a hot topic since some…

At least one person drowned and four are still missing after a ro-ro ferry carrying about 150 people and 75 vehicles sank late on Sunday night in the Marmara Sea.

The Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) has rejected a demand from the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), made this week, that the ports and Black Sea coastal waters of Georgia should be declared…

A& P Tyne is out hunting for a substantial piece of work to fill the gap left by the sinking of Scottish C& M Group, and with it the Ice Maiden I…

An invitation to break with maritime tradition is being offered in the form of a pilot study by Dutch firms Wagenborg Shipping, Flinter Management and Amasus Shipping.

The new SWATH patrol boats being built by Germanys Abeking & Rasmussen for the Latvian Coast Guard will boast MAN propulsion rather than the MTU engine technology of earlier 25m vessels.