Key deals

The Marpol Annex VI regulations centre round ensuring vessels limit pollution in the Baltic and North Sea Emission Control Area (ECA), and time is running out for shipowners to comply.

Spanish towing machinery supplier Ibercisa has announced its attendance at the 2014 edition of Navalshore to be held in Rio de Janeiro from the 12th - 14th August. This reflects the importance…

Marine Oil Transportation Consultants Inc (MarinOIL) and Tuco Group of Denmark have concluded a co-operation agreement that will see the marine projects consultancy market the Tuco-designed and built ProZero composite workboat range…

In the UK, Argyll and Bute firm Silvers Marine has won a new five-year contract with Babcock International entailing Silvers Boatyard servicing and maintaining a fleet of vessels for the Ministry of…

Dutch marine electronics provider, Alphatron Marine, will be unveiling three new state of the art JRC fully integrated bridge systems at Septembers SMM exhibition in Hamburg.

German propulsion specialist, Schottel, is to present its new solutions for offshore applications and hybrid concepts at this year’s SMM exhibition.

Kongsberg Norcontrol IT has played its part in helping to enhance sea border protection in the EU through automatic identification and tracking of vessels suspected of involvement illegal activity.

The UAE based Unique Maritime Group (UMG), a leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, has obtained a pivotal strategic equity investment from UK based Blue Water Energy.

BMT SMART, a subsidiary of BMT Group, is set to showcase its performance monitoring portfolio at SMM in Hamburg this September.

Japan’s Furuno Electric Co has acquired an initial 10% shareholding stake in New Zealand marine electronics company, Electronic Navigation Ltd (ENL), and its wholly-owned subsidiary WASSP Ltd.

MTU is to provide six of its 12V 2000 M72 engines for three new windfarm support vessels (WFSVs) being built for UK-based Seacat Services.

The work of the Conquest Offshore ‘Dutch Conquest’ MB1 crane ship is almost done now the sunken ‘Costa Concordia’ has been refloated in one of the world’s largest salvage operations.

An unusual new stern paddle-boat has gone into operation on Germany’s longest fjord, the Schlei, continuing a local shipping tradition and replacing a popular event and excursion predecessor.