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A consortium including the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME, the French construction group Eiffage and Eiffage’s subsidiary RMT Clemessy, has been awarded a EUR 47 million (USD 52.4 million) contract for the extension of the Freeport Terminal in Sierra Leone. The Freetown Terminal, operated by the French group Bolloré Transport & Logistics,… Read More
ABPmer, a leading marine consultancy, today announced the appointment of Damon O’Brien as its new Managing Director. Damon joins ABPmer from Advisian, a division of international engineering and consulting company Worley Parsons, where he was UK Operations Director. Damon brings to ABPmer a wealth of experience in UK and international consultancy services across many of… Read More
Aberdeen-headquartered Ashtead Technology has secured a deal with leading international contractor Van Oord to provide the latest generation of video processing systems for worldwide offshore construction operations. The agreement will see Ashtead supply five SubC Imaging DVRO systems to the Dutch-based company, allowing them to record multiple 3D, HD and SD video channels simultaneously for… Read More
The tender process supporting the Aberdeen Harbour’s Expansion Project has taken a significant step forward with the selection of Dragados as its preferred bidder for the main construction contract. Following a lengthy selection process, which involved an initial five potential tenderers being reduced down to one, Dragados have emerged as the favoured principal contractor. “Although… Read More
South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping plans to take legal action in jurisdictions worldwide to prevent its vessels being seized, as more of its ships were blocked from docking at ports in the wake of its collapse. As of Monday, 79 Hanjin ships including 61 container ships and 18 bulk carriers have been denied port access, according… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District Office awarded Orion marine Construction the contract for Channel to Port Lavaca And Harbor of Refuge, In Calhoun County, Texas – Pipeline Dredging. This action requires the contractor to perform pipeline dredging of approximately 2.2 million cubic yards of maintenance material from Channel to Port Lavaca and… Read More
The port of Antwerp and the port of San Pedro in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa renewed their collaboration with the signing of a new agreement on September 1. San Pedro, the leading cacao port in the world, aims to develop at regional level to become a logistics hotspot for handling commodities such as fertilizers, cashew… Read More
Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specialises in dredging and land reclamation, said it has successfully executed the impressive ground improvement project for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The project, which started in 2014, involved the reclamation of 65 million cu m of sand and extensive soil improvement. The reclamation area of 1,320 hectares… Read More
Creditor banks of Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd have decided to stop supporting South Korea’s largest shipping company, increasing the likelihood of the company being put under court receivership, two people at the creditor banks told Reuters. A spokesman for lead creditor Korea Development Bank declined to comment before an official statement. A Hanjin Shipping spokeswoman… Read More
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. said Friday it will lay off about a third of its workforce and sell a yard in France, as the Korean shipbuilder aims to stay above water by restructuring. STX, which filed for receivership in May, is the country’s fourth largest shipyard. It is a unit of conglomerate STX Corp.,… Read More
Orion Group Holdings, Inc., a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award of approximately $28 million. The Company’s Heavy Civil Marine Construction segment, Orion Marine Group, was recently awarded a contract from the North Carolina State Ports Authority for upgrades to Berth 8 at the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina. The project will… Read More
Shares of Selangor Dredging Bhd (SDB) fell 5.64% in thin trade early today after its net profit plunged 79% to RM4.6 million in the first quarter ended June 30, 2016 (1QFY17), from RM21.49 million in 1QFY16, primarily because the previous year had recorded a gain of RM13.69 million from land disposal. At 9.19am, SDB lost… Read More
Entries are now being accepted for the IHS DPC Rising Star Award. This award will be presented to a person demonstrating outstanding achievement in the maritime industry (they must have between five and ten years’ experience in dredging & port construction) who also shows exceptional leadership in the following areas: initiative, drive and consistently ‘going… Read More
After years of debates and an earlier attempt that was aborted due to the high costs involved, the state government has engaged Dredging Corporation of India Limited to dredge the Brahmaputra every year to get relief from annual bouts of floods and erosion. A team of the public-sector undertaking will visit the state within eight… Read More
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has confirmed it will open its second container terminal in Karachi at the end of October 2016, according to Reuters. The new facility, South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT), will aim to handle 250,000 teu in the first year of operations and more than 2m teu annually in five years. The terminal… Read More