On connections between Morita semigroups and strong Morita equivalence

A surjective Morita context connecting semigroups $S$ and $T$ yields a Morita semigroup and a strict local isomorphism from it onto $S$ along which idempotents lift. We describe strong Morita equivalence of firm semigroups in terms of Morita semigroups and isomorphisms. We also generalize some of Hotzel's theorems to semigroups with weak local units. In particular, the Morita semigroup induced by a dual pair $\beta$ over a semigroup with weak local units is isomorphic to $\Sigma ^\beta$.