Key deals

Preparations for the UK’s Poole Maritime Festival and European Maritime Day, Poole 2017 are nearing completion.

Norwegian boat lifting specialist Vestdavit’s digital library of 2D and 3D davit drawings has now been made available to naval architects and shipyards via the web, allowing them to download davit CAD…

S/F SamueLNG Project, lead by France’s Dragages Ports started in mid December, in the Port of Gijon, Spain and is the first phase of the Global Project ‘Towards a Blue Atlantic Arch…

An investment of €10.5 million in EU funding for marine renewable test facilities was recently announced in Dublin by University College Cork.

Finland-headquartered permanent magnet power generation specialist The Switch is targeting growth of 200% within the marine segment in the next five years.

Netherlands-owned MPI Offshore’s jack-up ‘MPI Adventure’ has installed its 72 SWT-4.0-130 turbines on the Sandbank offshore wind farm three months ahead of schedule, as the vessel has erected six complete offshore wind…

The world’s largest jack-up vessel ‘Seajacks Scylla’, recently visited the Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) terminal in the Waalhaven, after her first successful assignment on phase 1 of the Veja Mate Offshore Windpark…

DeepOcean 1 UK has been awarded a contract by Nexans for the cable installation at ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm in the North Sea.

Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has acquired the neighbouring land and buildings next to its existing premises in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam, to allow for significant expansion of its quayside, storage and office capabilities.

French marine propulsion manufacturer France Helices is celebrating its 40th anniversary in business this year.

In the last two months of 2016, Royal IHC saw a substantial increase in the sale of its vessels, equipment and engineering packages, securing almost half of its total order intake for…

Prysmian Group, the Italian energy and telecom cable systems specialist, has announced that the interconnection between the Veja Mate offshore wind farm and the offshore grid connection system BorWin2 in the German…

Shares in Atlantis Resources Ltd (ARL), the tidal power expert, have increased following the news that the firm has been granted a €20.3m Horizon 2020 grant from the European Commission for the…

Corvus Energy’s next generation battery solution has racked up over nine mega-watt hours (MWh) of orders since its launch six months ago.

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced the appointment of Mr. Frank Verhoeven as the new President of the IADC Board of Directors.