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The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) and the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIANC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to formalise their long-standing working relationship. René Kolman, secretary general of IADC, Geoffroy Caude president of PIANC and Louis Van Schel, secretary general of PIANC signed the MoU on 15 October, 2016…. Read More
The Seoul Central District Court has begun investigations to determine whether Hanjin Shipping’s former chair Choi Eun-young committed any criminal offences while she was at the helm of the liner operator. On 23 October the court said it had suggested to Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has been appointed to audit Hanjin Shipping’s assets and liabilities, to… Read More
The Board of Directors of Ellicott Dredge Enterprises announces two promotions. Heiko Osterchrist is now President of EDE. Most recently he was Managing Director of Rohr International Holdings and Rohr/Idreco operations in the US, Germany, France and Holland. Mr Osterchrist has over 35 years of experience in international sales and business development. He was on… Read More
Dredging ship Belomorsky of Northern Shipping Company OJSC has returned to the port of Arkhangelsk under the flag of Russia. According to the company’s press center, the dredger had been operating for 13 recent year under a long-term charter agreement at the ports of Italy, continental Spain, Canary Islands and Equatorial Guinea under the flag… Read More
The third annual Maritime Standard Awards, held on Monday 24th October at the iconic Atlantis Ballroom, on The Palm, have raised the bar still higher for regional awards ceremonies. Hosted by well-known TV journalist and former CNN anchor, Jim Clancy, and model and presenter, Dubai’s own Rania Ali, the Awards attracted a high calibre audience… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC, Oakbrook, Illinois was awarded a $ 32,595,369 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging the Delaware Main Channel. Bids were solicited on the Internet with three received. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 21, 2017. Source: U.S. Dept. of Defense
Italy’s Dragflow Srl has supplied a remote controlled dredge for tailing ponds cleaning in Germany. The RWE open coal mine needed a machine capable of dredging sediments from three ponds where all the storm water of the mine was collected, as well as the water coming from the mining machines. Dragflow supplied a remote controlled… Read More
DEME has opened a new office in Bremen that will serve as headquarters for the company’s operations in Germany. The Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group is consolidating all its German activities in the northern city since last year, it said. The office currently employs about 100 people. They will play a major role… Read More
Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ORN) today announced it will release its financial results for the third quarter 2016 before the market opens on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The Company will host a conference call to discuss results the same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time/9:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. To participate in the call,… Read More
As a result of persistently poor market conditions, Royal IHC fine-tunes its strategy by further boosting knowledge-intensive activities – Persistently poor market conditions force a fine-tuning of strategy – The management intends to reduce around 425 permanent and temporary contracts, mainly in indirect and support positions – Dutch-based IHC units to continue to operate as… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster, which has expanded rapidly into the offshore market during the boom in the offshore oil and gas industry when the oil price was high, says it expects the low oil price to continue to have a damping effect on opportunities in the industry for some time, but will continue to promote integrated… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday that it has awarded a $3.7 million contract to dredge Cleveland Harbor and the six-mile Cuyahoga River shipping channel. The dredging work is expected to begin by Nov. 1, and be completed by Dec. 15. Under terms of the agreement, Ryba Marine Construction of Cheboygan, Mich., will… Read More
Ellicott® Dredges, LLC announced that it has received three significant contracts for custom-designed dredges. In the first instance a major international chemical company selected Ellicott to build a custom electric bucketwheel dredge to mine salt in a very hard digging application. The new dredge, which will increase the mine’s output per operating hour and reduce… Read More
Bina Puri Holdings Bhd and China’s CCCC Dredging (Group) Co Ltd will form a consortium to build the Kuantan Waterfront Resort City with a gross development value (GDV) of RM15 billion over the next 10 years. Bina Puri Holdings Bhd chairman Tan Sri Wong Foon Meng said the consortium would see both companies holding a… Read More
Kirby Inland Marine L.P. has agreed to pay $4.9 million in Clean Water Act civil penalties and to implement fleet-wide operational improvements to settle claims stemming from a 4,000-barrel (168,000-gallon) oil spill in the Houston Ship Channel in March 2014, the Department of Justice and the Coast Guard announced. In its complaint, filed in the… Read More