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Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. Inc., one of the largest general contractors in the state, has completed the purchase of the historic Honolulu Advertiser building on Kapiolani Boulevard and plans to renovate the building and use it as the company’s corporate headquarters, the Honolulu-based company’s president confirmed to PBN. Hawaiian Dredging, one of the state’s oldest… Read More
The city of Cleveland could sell roughly 10 acres of waterfront land to a 116-year-old maritime business, for a shipyard expansion a decade in the making. The Great Lakes Towing Co. operates a fleet of tugboats and oversees the Great Lakes Shipyard, which runs along an old shipping channel that juts west near the mouth… Read More
Austrian construction giant Strabag’s German subsidiary Ed. Züblin and Dutch dredging giant Boskalis’ German subsidiary Heinrich Hirdes have been awarded a EUR120 million contract by Bremenports to build the Offshore-Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB)
The General Meeting of Shareholders of Van Oord nv was held on 21 April 2016. Turnover amounted to EUR 2,579 million and net profits totalled EUR 169 million. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 22 April 2016 – The General Meeting of Shareholders of Van Oord nv was held on 21 April 2016. The 2015 Annual Report was… Read More
Seatools has launched its Pile Dredge Tool (PDT). This pile cleaning and dredging tool is capable of removing soil plugs and cleaning of pre-piled jackets, such as commonly found in the offshore wind industry. The system can be used for all kinds of other pile excavation operations as well, such as for the preparation of… Read More
Singapore-listed Hutchison Port Holdings Trust reported year-over-year drops in revenue, operating profit and net income of 7 percent, 10 percent and 26 percent for the first quarter of 2016. The company, which owns and operates deep-sea container terminals in Hong Kong and mainland China, booked a net profit of 210.1 million Hong Kong dollars ($27.1… Read More
Darin McMurry will replace John Daggett as the new operations project manager at Fort Peck Dam. Daggett retires on June 3. Fort Peck Dam is the upper-most dam on the Missouri River operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. McMurry has been working as the deputy Operations Project manager and chief of the Natural Resource… Read More
Offshore contractors and vessel owners are securing contracts for operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Saudi Arabia. State-run energy companies in these countries continue to invest in offshore infrastructure despite last year’s slump in oil prices. Investment in subsea infrastructure was highlighted recently by the announcement of contract awards for engineering contractors… Read More
ASF Group Ltd (ASX:AFA) led consortium has been short listed for the next tender stage of a multi-billion dollar development at Royal Docks, Albert Island in London. The ASF consortium includes strategic partners, China State Construction Engineering Corporation and China Communications (CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co Ltd). The Greater London Authority has advised that the ASF… Read More
Selangor Dredging Bhd believes that workplace inclusiveness is key to corporate success within today’s changing business environment. Selangor Dredging group managing director Teh Lip Kim said that half of its workforce today consists of women, with a majority of them holding senior positions within the company. “Malaysia has made great progress in encouraging women into… Read More
With an objective of strengthening the “Make in India” initiative by Government, BEML Ltd, a Defence Public Sector, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dredging Corporation of India Ltd for indigenous design, development and manufacture of spares for dredgers. The above MoU was signed by P Dwarakanath, CMD, BEML and Rajesh Tripathi, CMD,… Read More
A new Rohr floating bucket ladder dredge was installed on a greenfield site of an existing sand and gravel operation. The customer chose this type of dredge as it is ideal for shallow dredging of large cobble and low energy consumption. The KS 225 is an electric dredge with a digging depth of 40 ft…. Read More
From the headwaters of the Everglades south to Florida Bay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the lead federal agency on restoring the Everglades. It’s a project 15 years old with a rising price tag. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project was approved in 2000 with an estimated cost of $8.2 billion. Halfway through, its… Read More
The Regional Maritime University (RMU) in Ghana has signed a training enhancement agreement with Dredging International Services Nigeria (DISN). The agreement is expected to facilitate cooperation between the two entities, particularly in the areas of education and training, consultancy and development in international marine dredging techniques and engineering. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
DEME Concessions, a subsidiary of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME, is acquiring a minority interest in the Scottish development company Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL). Together with Scottish Enterprise, TPSL controls, among others, the planned MeyGen project, the world’s first tidal power station connected to the electricity grid. By participating in… Read More