Key deals

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).

The new Container Terminal Lubeck, opening in April, is a Hamburg operation from start to finish, but it will also add a serious box handling dimension to the increasingly intermodal Baltic port…

The Transas Group celebrated 10 years as an international supplier of marine software and systems last month with events at its world headquarters in Portsmouth UK.

HMS Echo, the first of two new oceanographic and hydrographic survey ships for the British Royal Navy has been floated out from Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon and had its naming ceremony.