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Cleanup work to remove hazardous substances from Victoria Harbour in British Columbia is scheduled to begin shortly with the announcement early this month by Transport Canada that a clean-up contract had been awarded to Milestone Environmental Contracting Limited. Under the $5,344,000 contract, Milestone will remove hazardous chemicals in sediments from Victoria’s Middle Harbour sea bed…. Read More
Dewberry has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District to support a flood risk management feasibility study that aims to quantify flood risks and related flooding issues associated with the Sweetwater Creek Watershed, and to identify potential projects to reduce flood risks. The Sweetwater Creek basin, located in portions of… Read More
In line with the strategic direction announced in September 2016 A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S has made significant progress in focusing the future business on container shipping, ports and logistics. To further accelerate the development of customer oriented end-to-end transportation and logistics solutions the Board of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S today announces that it… Read More
Around 15-20 non-executive employees of the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) have started a relay fast at Sea Horse Junction near the port entrance on Tuesday. They are protesting against the government’s move towards privatising the public sector organisation. The Union Finance ministry’s Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has recently appointed a… Read More
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) said its non-executive workers’ union has threatened to launch an indefinite strike on or after December 6, 2017 to protest against its sale. Opposing the divestment plan, company workers, including shore-based executives, had gone on a mass leave on November 21 at Vishakhapatnam. The government, on November 1, approved sale… Read More
One of the things that struck me putting together the 2017 Industry Leaders supplement to OSJ, which will be published shortly, is the growing importance of Dutch and – to a lesser extent – Belgian owners. With the exception of Vroon Offshore, Dutch companies are not well known as owners of offshore support vessels, but… Read More
President Donald Trump recently appointed Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser as the president of the Mississippi River Commission and Col. Paul E. Owen as a member of the commission. Commission appointments are nominated by the President of the U.S. and vetted by the U.S. Senate. Kaiser is the commander and division engineer of the Mississippi… Read More
Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, today announced that the Port of San Francisco has selected CH2M in partnership with Arcadis to lead the design and engineering for the 10-year Seawall Resiliency Project. The total fee for the contract amounts to $40 million. In an approximately… Read More
A proliferation of coastal restoration projects and LNG facilities has reinvigorated Weeks Marine Inc.’s decades-long presence along the Gulf Coast. Its strategically placed equipment yards and offices, firmly entrenched in the Louisiana marketplace, are perfectly poised to handle the load. The maritime contractor is certainly not a new kid on the block. Founded by Francis… Read More
Hamburger Hafen Und Logistik AG (HHLA) has continued to increase its throughput, revenue and profit significantly against 2016. In the first nine months of 2017, its container throughput increased by 10.8% to nearly 5.45m teu while revenue and profit also increased over 2016. The chair of HHLA’s executive board, Angela Tizrath, said: “HHLA is currently… Read More
Two former executives of Dutch oil services company SBM Offshore NV pleaded guilty to bribing officials at Brazil’s Petrobras and two state-owned energy firms in Africa. Anthony Mace, 65, was SBM’s chief executive officer from 2008 to 2011. He also served as a board member of SBM’s wholly-owned Houston subsidiaries. Mace, a UK citizen, pleaded… Read More
Dredging Corporation of India Limited, under the administrative control of Ministry of Shipping, has ended up with Rs. 22.56-crore profit for half year on Sunday. Declaring its unaudited financial results for the half year, the mini-ratna company made a profit of Rs. 22.56 crore as against a loss of Rs. 10.37 crore in the corresponding… Read More
The UAE’s National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) posted an increase in its nine-month (9M) revenues for 2017, which amounted to $272.2m (AED1bn). NMDC’s 9M 2017 revenue amount is a 3% hike over corresponding figures for 2016, which were valued at $265m (AED973.4m). Investments in property, plant, and equipment for 9M 2017 amounted to $51.4m (AED189m),… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster saw a slight increase in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, compared to the quarterly average reported for the first half of the year. Boskalis cited poor conditions in the oil and gas sector for lower revenue results in its offshore energy business activities, compared with the previous quarters. The Netherlands-based… Read More
Van Oord is reaping the operational benefits on its fleet of dredgers and heavy lift ships by analysing an increasing volume of data. It has developed systems for the collection, storage, processing and analysis of data from suites of sensors on its vessels. According to Van Oord data scientist Gerben de Boer, the vessel owner… Read More