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Van Oord awarded for unique offshore project for Petrobras
The Dutcham Trade Award 2010-2011 is dedicated to Van Oord Offshore for best business achievement in Brazil. The trophy was assigned to the Dutch dredging company for their succesfull merits in the Brazilian offshore industry. At the ceremony on May 17 in São Paulo the jury of the Brasilian-Dutch Chamber of Commerce was unanimous in their decision to hand out the first price to Van Oord for their challenging ...read full story...
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Keeping the Dead Sea alive
(Jpost) The lowest point on earth promises to rise high on the controversy scale in coming months. The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the kickstarting of a dispute about who must foot the bill for keeping it healthy. The tourism and environmental protection ministers announced last Monday that the Dead Sea Works (owned by the Israel Corporation, in which the Ofer brothers hold the largest stake) will ...read full story...
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EUR 415 million Gladstone Dredging project awarded
Rotterdam / Zwijndrecht – 13 May 2011. Van Oord Australia Pty Ltd and Dredging International (Australia) Pty Ltd have been awarded the second contract for the Western Basin Main Works Dredging at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. This second contract signed on the 12th May 2011 with the Gladstone Ports Corporation involves the dredging of Parcels 1, 3 and 4 for the Western Basin Development. The value of ...read full story...
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Boskalis wins € 90 million worth of contracts in Nigeria
 Papendrecht - Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has recently been awarded a number of contracts in Nigeria with a total value of approximately € 90 million. The largest contract was awarded by Prodeco International Limited and involves dredging and reclamation works for the expansion of the Federal Lighter Terminal and the Federal Ocean Terminal in Onne Port, which is managed by Intels Nigeria Limited, a large logistic service supplier to the oil and gas industry.
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Work starts on Seaway dredging
(goldcoast) THE first step in opening the Broadwater to larger vessels should be completed by Christmas with work set to begin on removing 200,000 cubic metres of sand off the eastern end of the Gold Coast Seaway. Mayor Ron Clarke and Broadwater MP Peta-Kaye Croft this morning hailed the pilot dredging program, which will see the removed sand used to replenish several Gold Coast ...read full story...
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Classdiving & JDN Group Wishes Sierra Leone Happy 50th Jubilee
(news.sl) An Under-water Construction and Marine Constract Company, Classdiving in collaboration with a Belgium based Dredging and Marine Construction Company, Jan De Nul Group both operating in Sierra Leone wish the President, H.E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam Sumana and the people of Sierra Leone a prosperous and happy 50 Classdiving and Jan De Nul Group have been ...read full story...
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RM250m dredger launched
(btimes) Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd - a company in dredging, reclamation and marine-related construction industry - expects to build four more dredgers by end-2013, as it remains optimistic in the dredging outlook. "I believe that despite the uncertainty in the outlook of dredging volumes, to a certain degree, any decline in private infrastructure investments will be compensated by government infrastructure products embedded ...read full story...
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GE selects contractor to dredge PCBs from Hudson
(businessweek) General Electric Co. has awarded a dredging contract for the Hudson River to the company that did the work during the cleanup's test phase in 2009. GE announced Wednesday that it has selected Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co. LLC, to perform environmental dredging in the upper river beginning in May. The massive cleanup project is expected to take five to seven ...read full story...
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What is dredging
(dvidshub) GALVESTON, Texas -- Dredging is essentially the underwater excavation of a channel. Throughout the year, sediments within the water column will settle and accumulate within the channel, a process that is known as shoaling. The shoaled material is removed to the authorized project depth (plus advance maintenance and allowable overdepth) to allow for safe navigation between dredging cycles, a process ...read full story...
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Bahrain starts work on $2.26m road project
(tradearabia) Bahrain Ministry of Works said it has started work on a new road project in Juffair area of the Kingdom at a cost of BD 853,600 ($2.26 million). The work on the 12.3 km road on Juffair block 324 involves land reclamation from the sea and rock armor slope protection for avenue 22, said Raed Al-Salah, director of Roads Projects and Maintenance.
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Van Oord is working on the port of Klaipeda access channel |
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011 |
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Van Oord is going to deepen and widen the access channel to the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania. The contract is worth approximately EUR 40 million and is being financed partly by the European Union. The client is the Klaipeda port authority and the project will be executed in 2011-2012, read full story... |
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Boskalis aquires Euro 125 million contract in Surinam |
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Monday, 24 October 2011 |
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Papendrecht, 21 October 2011, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded a contract for the mining of bauxite in Lelydorp nearby Paramaribo, Surinam. The contract value is approximately € 125 million and the contract was awarded by Suralco L.L.C., an indirect joint subsidiary of Alcoa Inc. and Alumina Ltd. Work is set to commence shortly and it is due to be completed early 2015.The ...read full story... |
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Jan De Nul, first milestone Panama Canal |
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Monday, 24 October 2011 |
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(JDN) On 19 October 2011, a first milestone in the construction of the new locks in the Panama Canal was reached. At 9.40 am, the Administración del Canal de Panama (ACP) flooded the first section of the newly excavated lock lanes on the Pacific Side. The excavation works close to the Centenario...read full story... |
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Van Oord buys Shallow Water Pipe Lay Barge |
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Saturday, 30 July 2011 |
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(Van Oord) Van Oord has bought a Shallow Water Pipe Lay (SWPL) Barge for pipeline installation in shallow water. With this barge Van Oord extends its services to the offshore industry. The purchase is in line with Van Oord’s growth strategy of its offshore activities and the reinforcement of its position as an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (main) contractor. The barge is under construction in Nantong, China ...read full story... |
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Port Qasim deepest port in country: PQA chairman |
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 |
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(thenews.com.pk) KARACHI: The Port Qasim Authority (PQA), which handles more than 38 percent of the sea borne trade of the country, has recently completed some of its projects of port’s extension and upgrading. Port Qaism (PQ) has now become the deepest port in the country with deepening of the navigation channel to 13-meter draught, PQA Chairman Vice Admiral Muhammad Shafi said. The port ...read full story... |
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Wartsila receives propulsion package orders for four new dredgers |
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Monday, 18 July 2011 |
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(shipmanagementinternational) Wärtsilä has been awarded a series of orders to supply propulsion solutions for four new dredgers to be built in China and the Netherlands. The company, headquartered in Finland but with operations in 160 worldwide locations, will supply engines and fixed pitch propellers to Van Oord, the Netherlands-based ...read full story... |
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Vietnam PV Gas awards contract for Nam Con Son-2 |
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Monday, 18 July 2011 |
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(Platts) PetroVietnam's gas unit PV Gas on Saturday awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for part of the giant Nam Con Son-2 gas pipeline project to a PetroVietnam Construction-led contractor consortium, a PV Construction official said Sunday. The Nam Con Son-2 gas pipeline project includes a 293 km pipeline ...read full story... |
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Indonesia president lays out plan to become top 10 economy |
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 |
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(Reuters) - Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched a plan on Friday for the G20 member to become one the world's top 10 economies by 2025, though he listed more obstacles and doubts than new investments in much-needed infrastructure. The government of Southeast Asia's largest economy aims to overhaul its dilapidated transport network, but is relying on the private sector for $100 billion and ...read full story... |
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Vale to expand Brazilian port terminal, install new CEO |
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 |
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(progressiverailroading) Yesterday, Brazilian mining company Vale announced plans to spend $2.9 billion to increase capacity at the Ponta da Madeira Port Terminal (TPPM) in São Luís, Brazil. The expansion blueprint calls for installing a new pier, dredging to increase water depth and double tracking a 71-mile stretch on the company’s Carajás Railroad. The São Luís facility can become the country’s leading port next ...read full story... |
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Australia plans to make Abbot Point biggest coal terminal |
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 |
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(SteelGuru) Plans to make Abbot Point Australia's biggest coal terminal are afoot and it's hoped the Federal Government will further advance them today with a AUD 500 million boost. North Queensland Bulk Ports and the Ports Corporation of Queensland are waiting to discover whether the Federal Government will include AUD 500 million in its budget to kick-start the construction of a multi cargo facility at the port. NQBP ...read full story... |
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Bids invited for £90m Hull port expansion |
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Friday, 13 May 2011 |
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(constructionenquirer) Associated British Ports is searching for contractors to expand its docks in Hull to allow construction of offshore wind turbines. Plans for a huge expansion of the docks, known as Green Port Hull, were first drawn up with the idea of enticing a wind turbine or offshore company to the region.The big gamble paid off in January when German engineering giant Siemens choose the dock as the location for a ...read full story... |
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EUR 415 million Gladstone Dredging project awarded |
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Friday, 13 May 2011 |
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Rotterdam / Zwijndrecht – 13 May 2011. Van Oord Australia Pty Ltd and Dredging International (Australia) Pty Ltd have been awarded the second contract for the Western Basin Main Works Dredging at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. This second contract signed on the 12th May 2011 with the Gladstone Ports Corporation involves the dredging of Parcels 1, 3 and 4 for the Western Basin Development. The value of ...read full story... |
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