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Roanwell Enters Marine Market: Acquires Bees Manufacturing

Dec 04, 2012

US-based Roanwell Corp. purchases Bees Manufacturing LLC gains entry to marine market.Roanwell, a maker of rugged communications equipment and contract manufacturer of high precision close tolerance machined parts, will be able to enter the marine marketplace through the acquisition…

Kirby to Acquire Barge & Tankship Operator Penn Maritime

Nov 28, 2012

Kirby Corporation (Kirby) has signed an agreement to acquire Penn Maritime Inc. (Penn) and Maritime Investments LLC.Penn Maritime is an operator of tank barges and tugboats participating in the coastal transportation of primarily black oil products in the United States…

Dockwise to Review Merits of Intended Offer Boskalis

Nov 26, 2012

Dockwise Ltd. confirms it has received an unsolicited intended offer from Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. ('Boskalis') for the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Dockwise at an offer price of EUR 17.20 per share cum dividend.  The…

Boskalis Intends to Buy Dockwise

Nov 26, 2012

The addition of Dockwise's activities to the Boskalis group will provide an extensive package of services for clients in the oil and gas sector.Boskalis has invited the Dockwise Board of Directors to discuss the intended offered acqusition…

Aker Acquires Thrum Energy to Increase Atlantic Canada Footprint

Nov 22, 2012

Aker Solutions is buying Canadian asset integrity management (AIM) company Thrum Energy Inc. Thrum Energy is a St. John's, Newfoundland-based asset integrity management company. The company provides a diverse portfolio of quality services to both onshore and offshore assets in Canada…

Aker Pulls the Plug on NPS Energy Acquisition

Nov 21, 2012

Aker Solutions has ended the process to acquire the Dubai-headquartered oil services company NPS Energy.Aker Solutions announced an agreement to buy the shares in NPS Energy on 21 May 2012. The agreement was conditional upon a series of…

BMT Acquire Australian Maritime Consultancy, Oceanica

Nov 20, 2012

BMT Group Ltd , a leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy acquire Oceanica Consultiong Pty Ltd.The acquisition of Oceanica is intended to further strengthen BMT’s capacity and technical offering in Western Australia’s buoyant market…

WTS Acquires Novenco Fire Fighting A/S

Nov 20, 2012

Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions acquires speialist in water-mist technology, Novenco Fire Fighting A/S.“The acquisition of this niche player in water mist technology further strengthens our safety portfolio, taking us an important step closer…

ICTSI Acquires Control of Philippines' Port

Nov 19, 2012

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) subsribe to shares giving it a 65% share in Hijo International Port Services Corp.International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), through its wholly- owned subsidiary Abbotsford Holdings…

Havyard Group Buys Out MMC

Nov 18, 2012

Norway's Havyard Group AS buys 70 % of the shares in MMC, provider of products & services to the fishing & offshore vessel sectors.MMC has 120 employees and the company’s main office is at Mjølstadneset in Fosnavåg on the west coast of Norway…

Atlantic Petroleum to Gain Foothold Offshore Norway

Nov 15, 2012

Atlantic Petroleum gains entry to Norwegian Continental Shelf energy exploration through acquisition of Emergy Exploration AS.Atlantic Petroleum has issued a voluntary offer for 100% of the shares in Emergy Exploration AS, an independent…

ASL Marine Group Buys Out Vosta & CFT

Nov 13, 2012

Vosta LMG Group of Companies & CFT International acquired by ASL Marine Group subsidiary Leo Dynamische Investering BV.Vosta LMG’s business is complementary to the Group’s current business segments of shipbuilding, ship repair and conversion and ship chartering…

EIVA and Atlas Services Group Join Forces

Nov 13, 2012

The international recruitment company Atlas Services Group and EIVA have joined forces by entering into a collaboration agreement that will include training courses on the EIVA software suite in Atlas Services Group’s training curriculum offered globally…

Passenger Ship Management Companies Merge

Nov 02, 2012

River Advice & International Shipping Partners establish new ship management company 'FleetPro Passenger Ship Management (FleetPro).FleetPro results from the combination of River Advice with 1250 employees and 35 river cruise vessels under management in Europe…

OW Bunker Acquire Bergen Bunkers

Oct 24, 2012

OW Bunker to acquire the entire share capital of marine fuels & lubricants supplier Bergen Bunkers AS.Bergen Bunkers has offices in Bergen and St Petersburg, and provides fuel and lubricants to some of Norway's leading ship owners and operators…

Logistics News

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DCSA Publishes Verified Gross Mass (VGM) Standard to Accelerate Digitalization of Container Weight Verification

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