Papendrecht, 5 March 2020 ?HIGHLIGHTS 2019 Revenue: EUR 2.6 billion EBITDA: EUR 376 million EBIT: EUR 111 million Net profit: EUR 75 million Record high order book: EUR 4.7 billion Net debt-free: EUR 26 million net cash Dividend proposal: EUR 0.50 per share all cash OUTLOOK Well-filled order book for 2020 Dredging: stable market volume… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — In a little more than a week, the ongoing $28.2 million beach nourishment project on Bogue Banks will roll into an even higher gear. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said Thursday the Ellis Island, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co.’s largest dredge boat, is expected to… Read More
DEME Concessions and Omani partners are announcing an exclusive partnership to develop a world leading, green hydrogen plant in Duqm, Oman. The facility will significantly contribute to the decarbonisation of the regional chemical industry in Oman, as well as providing green hydrogen and/or derivatives (such as green methanol or ammonia) to international customers in Europe,… Read More
H.E Falah Al Ahbabi: Abu Dhabi Ports is leading the charge towards digitalising the region’s maritime operations ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Abu Dhabi Ports announced today its collaboration with a global commercial vessel designer and tugboat leader, Robert Allan Ltd., to develop the world’s first fully unmanned autonomous commercial marine tugs. Once developed, the… Read More
SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Lake Erie’s high water levels and lack of ice coverage continue to cause significant erosion along the shoreline and has prompted Saybrook Township Park officials to hire an engineering firm to study the damage. The constant pounding of waves has eaten away boulders placed along the shoreline 20 years ago for erosion… Read More
The Responsible Offshore Science Alliance (ROSA) has appointed Lyndie Hice-Dunton as its first executive director. Hice-Dunton officially assumed the role of Executive Director on 10 February. According to ROSA, the new appointment has over a decade of experience in fisheries science and environmental policy as a specialist on projects focusing on coastal and offshore energy,… Read More
Officials of SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, N.Y., recently joined executives of ferry operator Hornblower in a ceremony that saw the college’s navigation lab renamed the “Hornblower E-Navigation Lab.” The naming marked both a celebration and expansion of Hornblower’s long standing partnership with SUNY Maritime College to inspire local maritime talent. The partnership includes Hornblower… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District recently completed most of the Stanford Run ecosystem restoration project within Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Buffalo District restored nearly 1,200 feet of Stanford Run, a small stream within the national park, under the original Stanford Run restoration project contract awarded to Ryba Marine Construction Co. The… Read More
The United States would play a substantive role in dredging rivers in Bangladesh, US ambassador Earl Miller said in Dhaka. He was speaking at a seminar and a cultural function staged on the occasion of signing of a partnership agreement between two dredging companies — one of Bangladesh and the other of the United States…. Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project pushed west from Atlantic Beach into Pine Knoll Shores Thursday, beginning the longest stretch of work in the project. The town’s 4-plus miles of beach are to receive 990,000 cubic yards of sand, about half of the 2 million cubic yards in the… Read More