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On 8 December the 5,500m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Ilembe departed from IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands on its way to its homeport at Durban. The dredger is due to arrive there around 12 January. Ilembe will be the largest dredging vessel of its kind operating in South Africa and will be deployed to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $1.75 million contract to Western Contracting Corporation, of Sioux City, for repairs to a backwater site along the Missouri River at Ponca State Park. The backwater serves as shallow-water habitat for the endangered pallid sturgeon and several other species of fish and wildlife. The area was… Read More
Mojo Maritime are pleased to announce that offshore construction specialists Jan De Nul Group are now licenced for Mermaid® use. Mermaid allows users to realistically simulate marine operations to uncover the risks and identify critical operations before going offshore. A number of significant players in the marine industry already use Mermaid to analyse their operations… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awards TerraSond an Architect-Engineer (A-E) Hydrographic Survey and Mapping IDIQ contract for the USACE Walla Walla District in Washington State. This is their second consecutive IDIQ contract with the USACE Walla Walla District. TerraSond has been supporting the USACE since 1995 under nine separate multi-year (IDIQ) contracts, and… Read More
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District recently announced the selection of Philip Hite as chief of the budget, manpower, and management branch of the Resource Management Office. In this position, Hite will be responsible for preparing, coordinating and developing budgetary data used in financial schedule estimates for the District’s current year and… Read More
LONDON TITAN, a £7M multi-purpose dredger, can operate between the Thames Estuary and as far upstream as Richmond in South West London The Port of London Authority (PLA) has officially introduced its £7M multi-purpose river maintenance vessel, LONDON TITAN. Officially named by Thurrock MP, Jackie Doyle-Price, LONDON TITAN will keep the river clear of obstructions… Read More
Georgina Carlo-Paat, the first woman Master in the UK Marine Aggregate Dredging Sector, has recently completed her first tour of duty aboard Cemex UK Marine aggregate dredger, the Sand Heron. Georgina commands one of Cemex’s four dredgers operating in waters around the UK and near Continent. They provide about 18% of Cemex’s aggregates, which are… Read More
Uljanik Shipyard in Croatia has delivered Isaac Newton, a sophisticated multipurpose vessel for Sofidra SA (Jan de Nul). The vessel was delivered on 27 November 2015 and has a length of 138m and breadth of 32m, deadweight of 13,436 tonnes and is equipped for cable laying, trenching and rock installation. In cable laying mode, the… Read More
On 25 November 2015, PGA SA and a Polish-Danish consortium of PRCiP and Rohde Nielsen signed an agreement regarding dredging of the turning basin at Port of Gdansk. The agreement between the Port of Gdansk Authority SA and a consortium of two companies – Przedsiebiorstwo Robot Czerpalnych i Podwodnych Sp zoo and Rohde Nielsen –… Read More
NEW YORK and MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PHI Group, Inc. (PinkSheets:PHIL), a U.S. public company engaged in energy and natural resources, announced today that the Company has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Manila-based Spartan Mining and Development Corporation (“SMDC”), to form PHI Spartan Resources, Inc., a new Philippine entity to… Read More
Jan De Nul Group secured its continuous presence in Panama for another two years through the award of the quay wall and dredging contract for the expansion of Panama PSA’s terminal, the Group’s press center says. After six months of design and tendering process, the contract has been awarded to Jan De Nul Group and… Read More
Van Oord executes several contracts in the Caspian Sea region with a total value of more than 500 million US $. During the visit of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to Kazakhstan on Wednesday 2 December 2015 Van Oord announced the award of several contracts in the Caspian Sea. The first project comprises the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract for the Cape Cod Canal dredging project, which is expected to begin in early January 2016. According to the Cape Cod Times, the contract was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., the project’s low bidder, at $5.9 million. The project is expected to take… Read More
The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Management Office (PENRO) said a Taiwanese mining firm has been given permission to dredge Abra River. The project is aimed at ensuring the safety of residents in at least five municipalities in the province against flash floods. According to Raymund Sinay, PENRO officer, the silt has been building up… Read More
Sunshine Coast-based dredging, civil contracting and marine civil company Halls Contracting dredged more than 365,000 sqm of sand from a lagoon to fill the holes and improve living conditions on the island. Hall Contracting managing director Cameron Hall said the works, funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on behalf of… Read More