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Stationary dredger SEEM 16-640ST « Milady » with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure has been launched.at Merré shipyard. Delivered in 2019, it is a stationary dredgerl built by Merré shipyard for the Services Industriels de Genève based in Switzerland. The SEEM 16-640ST cutter suction dredger is designed by the Merré Design Office and will… Read More
CONCORD, Mass. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform a riverbank protection project to stabilize approximately 500 linear feet of riverbank along the Connecticut River in Lyme, New Hampshire. The town of Lyme is the local sponsor for the proposed project. Erosion is occurring at a section of… Read More
Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, has provided the detailed design for Shaver Transportation Company’s new, Z-drive tug – Samantha S. The multi-purpose tug was built at Diversified Marine Inc., in Portland, Ore., and is operating along the West Coast. The tug is ABS-classed and carries a FFV1 firefighting… Read More
2018 has been quite the year for Van Oord. We christened three new additions to the Van Oord fleet, organised an international symposium, published a book and invited youngsters to join us in looking forward to the future. We celebrated Van Oord’s 150th anniversary with our colleagues all around the world. The golden lining was… Read More
Lizi Stewart joins the consultant after 15 years at Arcadis. Atkins has named Arcadis executive Lizi Stewart as the head of its UK and European transportation division. Stewart joins the SNC-Lavalin Group-owned consultant on 1 February after working for Arcadis for 15 years. Latterly the managing director of Arcadis’ highways and aviation arm, she also… Read More
The Houston City Council and Harris County Commissioners met Monday to choose a new chair for the Port of Houston Authority, but they couldn’t come to a consensus. The meeting was filled with confusion over procedure and arguments over the way votes should be taken. Ultimately, it came down to two candidates: Ric Campo, chairman… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster from the Netherlands has been awarded a contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm project in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, UK. Boskalis will do the transportation and installation of wind turbine foundations, the offshore substation and cables, for Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL), a subsidiary of Red… Read More
There is no question of closure of state-owned Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) as three major ports, including Visakhapatnam Port, plan to pick up government stake in the company, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said. “At the department level, we have taken a decision. The three major ports are now ready to acquire DCI. We have… Read More
UK-based marine survey company Gardline, which became part of Boskalis in 2017, has appointed a new chief executive. The company has announced the appointment of Christiaan Vermeijden as chief executive officer, effective immediately. He will replace interim chief executive, Gerben Eggink. Mr Vermeijden said, “I am honoured to become chief executive of Gardline, a company… Read More
The Midstream Oil and Gas Congress (MOCG) 2019 is dedicated to Oil and Gas Transportation via pipelines. As a matter of fact, with more and more offshore undertakings for the extraction of oil and gas, there is a growing demand for a special kind of equipment that can handle both the aggressive environments found in… Read More
Royal IHC has secured a contract from Belgium-based DEME for the design and build of four new vessels. The order consists of a copy of the recently delivered 8,400m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) SCHELDT RIVER, a 2,300m3 TSHD, and two 3,500m3 split barges. The SCHELDT RIVER was delivered in 2017 and due to its… Read More
Arcadis has announced a partnership with Kiewit Infrastructure West and PERC Water to provide design and engineering services for the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP) in the City of Santa Monica, US. The SWIP project is expected to take Santa Monica closer to becoming water self-sufficient, ensuring sustainable water supply and reducing the costs of… Read More
Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has signed a 25 year concession agreement with the Ecuadorian Municipality of Guayaquil for deepening and maintenance of the 95 km long access channel to the port of Guayaquil. Under the agreement, Jan De Nul will finance the capital dredging works to deepen the existing access channel, guaranteeing a new… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) is awarded the first contractby the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a $326M project to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Texas. GLDD says it won a $93M contract award for the project and expects to begin dredging to deepen the entrance channel during Q2… Read More
Netherlands based shipbuilder Royal IHC has launched the world’s largest self propelled cutter suction dredger from its yard in Krimpen aan den IJssel. The 165m long Spartacus is the first cutter suction dredger to be powered by LNG. Its four Wartsila main engines can also run on MDO and HFO. The two Wartsila auxiliary engines… Read More