Van Oord has secured a contract to install foundations at Dong Energy‘s 258MW Burbo 2 wind farm in the Irish Sea. The Dutch company will tackle 32 monopiles and transition pieces, supply and install scour protection and provide logistics between ports in Germany, Denmark and the UK. Installation is planned to take place during summer… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster(Boskalis) has been awarded three dredging-related contracts in Africa with a combined value of approximately $83.9m. In Angola, Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Angola LNG for dredging activities related to maintaining the access channel and turning basins of the Soyo LNG port. The project will be executed in joint venture and… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has announced that it been awarded three dredging-related contracts on the African subcontinent. The contracts have a combined value of approximately €75 million. One of these contracts was awarded by Angola LNG Ltd. It covers dredging activities related to maintaining the access channel and turning basins of the Soyo LNG port…. Read More
BAM International has completed the €65m ($72.8m) contract to construct the Aqaba New Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal for Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC). The firm has handed over the project on 23 June, two months ahead of schedule. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. has awarded to Dredging International, member of the DEME Group, a five and a half-year extension of its ongoing contract to remove mine-derived sediments from the lower Ok Tedi river system, situated in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, the company said in its press release. OK Tedi Mining Ltd…. Read More
During 8 – 12 June 2015 a group of employees from the central office, Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin, Astrakhan, North-Western Basin and Sakhalin Branches of FSUE “Rosmorport” have completed a training course “Modern dredging equipment and technologies” in Van Oord company (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). The program included both theoretical course, and simulator training, a visit to the… Read More
The 400MW MEG 1 wind project in the German North Sea has been renamed Merkur Offshore and is reconsidering its options on turbine supply as it nears a financial close, an official at developer Deme Concessions told Recharge. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (NASDAQ:GLDD) SVP Maryann Waryjas purchased 5,200 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 11th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $5.90 per share, with a total value of $30,680.00. Following the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 72,624 shares in… Read More
Robert McCall (coastal morphology expert), Pieter van Geer (coastal engineering expert) of Deltares, Gerd Masselink and Timothy Poate of the University of Plymouth will be awarded the Halcrow Prize for their scientific publication about the XBEACH gravel model. The paper was published in the ICE journal ‘Maritime Engineering’ and, of all the papers in 2014,… Read More
The A1/28 joint venture of BAM and Van Oord working with design partner Arcadis has won the tender for major improvements to the Hoevelaken junction near Utrecht. The project for the Netherlands directorate-general for public works and water management, Rijkswaterstaat, is designed to improve traffic flows both around the Hoevelaken junction and on the surrounding… Read More
Col. Marvin L. Griffin will take command of the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from Col. Thomas J. Tickner in a formal ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday. Brig. Gen. C. David Turner, commander of the Corps of Engineers’ South Atlantic Division, will officiate at the formal change-of-command ceremony in the Hyatt Regency Hotel…. Read More
Konecranes has received an order for four Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes from Branch Damietta Container & Cargo Handling Company in Egypt. This Konecranes equipment will include high-performance 16-wheel RTGs with a lifting capacity of 40 tons, a stacking height of 1-over-5, and a stacking width of 7 plus truck lane wide. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The Directorate General of Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded the project to improve the Hoevelaken motorway interchange to the A1/28 joint venture established by BAM and Van Oord. Hoevelaken is the most troublesome spot on the Dutch motorway network. The Draft Transport Infrastructure Planning Procedures Decree (Ontwerp Tracé Besluit) and the Environmental Impact Report are… Read More
The Jan de Nul Group is the Belgian company behind concerns over making a Chinese company the preferred bidder to build the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. It queried a potential conflict of interest surrounding the award of the contract to China Harbour Engineering. It said it had concerns about a long-term partnership between CHEC and… Read More
Steve Saucier, CEO of GCSES, said: “Frogco is a first-rate service provider in a unique market, with a reputation for unmatched equipment quality and a customer-centric approach that focuses on providing solutions so projects can be completed in the safest and most cost effective manner.” “In affiliation with GCSES, Frogco will enhance its position in… Read More