Maritime News & Insights

Rheinmetall has confirmed that it and MSC intend to acquire Romania’s Mangalia shipyard after a successful auction bid. The partners will jointly fund the approximately €138 million purchase and plan to develop separate production and security zones for commercial and naval shipbuilding. Rheinmetall expects completion within a few weeks and plans to upgrade the yard’s infrastructure. The announcement confirms MSC’s participation and the development plans; the acquisition has not yet been finalised.

MOL Techno-Trade has launched C4C, or Coastal4Cast, a service designed to improve forecasts of coastal sea conditions. It combines observations collected from MOL group vessels with numerical ocean models to support coastal navigation, port work, offshore wind maintenance and other marine activities. The company is recruiting users for a free monitoring programme through 28 February 2027, with feedback intended to improve the service and its features.

Havila Shipping has entered into contracts with Neo Next + Energy E&P UK Limited for the platform supply vessels Havila Fanø and Havila Herøy. Each vessel has three years of firm employment through September 2029, followed by three optional one-year periods. The work will continue directly from the vessels’ existing spot contracts in the UK sector of the North Sea. The optional periods remain separate from the confirmed three-year commitments.

A.P. Moller Capital has agreed to acquire all of Singapore-based Portek International from Mitsui through its Emerging Markets Infrastructure Fund II. Portek holds interests in seven terminals across Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Latvia, Malta and Vietnam, alongside port engineering and maintenance activities. The deal would bring a geographically diverse cargo-handling network under new ownership. Completion remains subject to regulatory and other third-party approvals.