ChartWorld’s Oliver Schwarz and MSL’s Sumita and Shankar Roy are excited to start the collaboration and shape a new era for Maritime Services in the Americas.

Digital chart agent and ECDIS manufacturer ChartWorld has acquired Canadian company Maritime Services.

Logistics solution provider Bulk Container Group (BCG) has acquired UK-based Kale Europe, a boutique maritime consulting firm specialising in the areas of digital transformation and technology across the logistics supply space.

JRC/Alphatron Marine has joined Royal IHC’s e-commerce platform ShipSupport.com as a global partner.

Inmarsat has refuted reports linking it with a $300m purchase of Thuraya, outlined in an article on the website Spacenews.

Panasonic has reported that it has entered into an agreement to acquire ITC Global, a satcom provider that serves the energy, mining and maritime markets, and which has been owned by Boston-based private equity firm, Riverside Partners, since 2011.

Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, part of Hexagon, has acquired OhnmTech A/S, a Norwegian provider of ship design software.

SpeedCast has announced the acquisition of satcom provider Geolink Satellite Services, a subsidiary of the CETel Group that serves the Africa region.