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Supplier of marine products and services Consilium Marine Group has signed a global cooperation agreement with communications solutions integrator Orange Business Services.

Production has begun at STX Europe’s Vyborg shipyard of two multi-purpose icebreaking service vessels, ordered from Arctech Helsinki Shipyard by Sovcomflot in December 2010. Both are scheduled for April 2013 delivery.

Dutch company Alewijnse Marine Systems says it is playing a significant role in the conversion of the jack-up drill rig Atlantic Labrador to offshore hotel accommodation.

Maersk Drilling has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, at a cost of about $1.3 billion, for delivery in the second and…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has completed the modernisation of its Enoura shipbuilding facility at the Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Zodiac reports that Swedish ferry operator Stirsöbolage has become the first Scandinavian company to benefit from its new MES ESS automatic escape slide, with three 3.4m slides installed onboard the Älvsnabben 4.

German company Becker Marine Systems has introduced BIMS (Becker intelligent monitoring system) which it says overcomes delays and improves dynamic positioning (DP) and autopilot (AP) systems.

Warsash Maritime Academy’s new manned model Ship Handling Centre has recently been officially opened by Admiral The Rt Hon Lord West of Spithead, Chancellor of Southampton Solent University and former First Sea…

Talks between ThyssenKrupp and Abu Dhabi Mar on the sale of Blohm + Voss have collapsed, but reports say new discussions are now being held with other interested parties, writes Tom Todd.

UK consultant BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group, says that it is celebrating 25 years of innovative vessel design this year.

Austal Ships reports that the US Navy has exercised contract options funding the construction of the sixth and seventh Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), as part of a 10-ship $1.6 billion programme.

MAN Diesel & Turbo says that it signed a contract in April, 2011 with STX of South Korea, for four 12V28/33D STC medium speed engines, for a Republic of Korea Navy ship…