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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
The China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) Colombo Port City last week claimed that it had downsized its staff and were in the process of paying loans obtained from international finance companies due to the halting of the project. However, the CHEC Port City, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) did not divulge… Read More
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation awarded Wednesday a construction contract to Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company to build three rail stations in Waipahu. Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company received a $78.9 million contract for the Farrington Highway station group, consisting of the West Loch, Waipahu Transit Center and Leeward Community College stations. Bids for the station group… Read More
China Communications Construction Corporation (CCCC) has set up a dredging group, the first of a series of planned spinoffs as it develops into a holdings companywith subsidiaries across various sectors. Officially founded on 10 June in Shanghai, CCCC Dredging (Group) is registered in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone with a registered capital of CNY11.7 billion… Read More
Alan Bernard, CEO of dredging and civil engineering firm DEME, has won this year’s Vlerick Award, handed out annually by Vlerick Business School on behalf of its alumni association, which votes for the winner. The theme of this year’s award was “Legacy & Promise”. All the nominees “run a company with a proud history and… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (NASDAQ:GLDD) Director Nathan Leight bought 7,000 shares of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were purchased at an average price of $5.71 per share, for a total transaction of $39,970.00. Following the transaction,… Read More
The delivery in early May of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) Barito Equator demonstrates how Indonesia’s developing maritime industry is building ever more complex vessels. The 2,500 m3 capacity Damen TSHD 2500 is the first of its kind built in Indonesia and also the largest Damen standard hopper dredger built to date. For Indonesian dredging… Read More