News

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

UK based marine engineering company, SeaKing Electrical, recently completed a contract to upgrade an offshore support tug for Italy’s Andofe Shipping Management in the Republic of Congo, Western Africa.

13th February 2013

SeaKing completes West African upgrade

13th February 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Offshore lifting trials with the crane barge Conquest MB1 and the cargo/supply vessel Abis Dublin have been successfully completed.

13th February 2013

Floating vessel to crane barge lift trials

13th February 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Marguerite Fund, an equity fund set up by six major European financial institutions to invest in Greenfield and expansion projects, has acquired a 22.5% stake in the German Greenfield Butendiek offshore…

12th February 2013

Renewables fund

12th February 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Belgian authorities have developed plans to create an artificial island off their coastline as a scheme to store wind energy power.

12th February 2013

Artificial island for wind energy storage

12th February 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

DONG Energy has announced plans build the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm off the Holderness UK coast.

12th February 2013

DONG to build windfarm off Yorkshire coast

12th February 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Container throughput at Marseilles Fos rose 13% in 2012, led by a 16% surge in deepsea volumes at the leading French cargo port.

12th February 2013

Double digit Fos

12th February 2013

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Dorset UK based fast response craft training provider FRC International is hosting the CSI 2013 - Crew Systems Integration Conference from 2 to 4 July 2013 at the RNLI Lifeboat College in…

11th February 2013

Crew Systems Integration Conference

11th February 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Damen Shiprepair Brest, one of the Damen Group’s 11 shipyards, recently welcomed the third LNG carrier, the ‘Arctic Spirit’, owned and managed by Bermuda based marine services company, Teekay.

11th February 2013

Third LNG carrier for Damen Shiprepair Brest

11th February 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction work has started on a new 645m quay at the head of the Waasland canal, in the Antwerp port area on the left bank.

11th February 2013

Construction starts on Waasland canal berths

11th February 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission plc (SHE Transmission) has awarded MMT Sweden the HVDC cable re-route survey from Shetland to the Caithness landfall.

11th February 2013

MMT awarded a cable route survey contract

11th February 2013