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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast
(PhysOrg.com) A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave energy generator systems, with a total capacity of 20 MW, to be evaluated simultaneously. The $64 million project consists of a sub-station at Hayle in Cornwall, from which a cable has now been laid under the sand dunes and ...read full story...
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Dredging Begins In Mission Bay Channel
(kpbs.org) SAN DIEGO — Work will begin this week to begin dredging the Mission Bay Channel to make it safer for recreational and commercial boaters accessing the Pacific Ocean, it was announced today. The $5.3 million project, which is being overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was paid for through federal stimulus funding and will take about 30 days to complete, according to Mayor Jerry Sanders' office. "This dredging ...read full story...
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Duxbury: Public comment period opens for proposed dredging project
(959watd) A proposed dredge of the Duxbury Harbor would remove an estimated 135 thousand cubic yards of sandy and silty material from Duxbury Bay. “The United States Army Corp. of Engineers is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Duxbury Harbor Federal Navigational Project in Duxbury, Mass.,” said New England District spokesman Tim Dugan. Dugan says the proposed ...read full story...
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Recruiting fresh talent for the dredging industry
Within the maritime infrastructure industry, the companies that comprise the International Association of Dredging Companies are known for their high-levels of expertise. But outside the industry dredging in general is often little known and undervalued. Important progress is being made to communicate the dynamism of the dredging sector to a new generation and to underscore how essential dredging is to improve a country’s socioeconomic well-being and living standards.
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Important Australian contract
(Van Oord) Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 3rd September 2010 – Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia.
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Offshore firm IHC hopes for return to profit
(nebusiness) Offshore engineering specialist IHC Engineering Business (EB) is “absolutely” confident of being back in profit this year after investment in new technology and the opening of a new site pushed it into the red. Figures just published by the Northumberland-based business show it made a pre-tax loss of £2.8m in the 12 months to September 30 last year, compared with a £2m profit in ...read full story...
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Flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes launched
(Van Oord) On 20 August 2010, flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes was launched at the CIMC Raffles yard in Yantai, China. A naming ceremony will be held at a later date. Final building operations will be conducted at the same yard. The ship is scheduled for completion in 2011 after which it will be operational on the offshore market.
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Orion Marine Group Announces the Christening of its Newest Dredge
(GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Orion Marine Group, a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced the christening of its newest dredge the Linda LaQuay. Orion Marine Group will christen the dredge Linda LaQuay Friday morning, August 27, 2010, in its new north yard in Port Lavaca, TX. The dredge Linda LaQuay, is a 24" cutter suction dredge with the capability of dredging depths up ..read full story...
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Sand berm defense gets $60 million financing installment
(Nola) Louisiana received its third $60 million check from BP on Tuesday to pay a share of the cost of building berms along barrier islands, and the state's coastal czar again defended the controversial use of sand as an effective tool in capturing oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...read full story...
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Jan De Nul is awarded the Pacific Entrance North Access channel works
 On Monday August 16th Jan De Nul NV was awarded one of the last large tenders for the Panama Canal Expansion. Jan De Nul is already very active in Panama and is a.o. working on the construction of the new locks on the Panama Canal, one of the most prestigious infrastructure works in the world.
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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave energy generator systems, with a total capacity of 20 MW, to be evaluated simultaneously. The $64 million project consists of a sub-station at Hayle in Cornwall, from which a cable has now been laid under the sand dunes and ...read full story... |
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Costa Rica gives green light for Nicaragua to dredge border river |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
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(ticotimes) Costa Rica will not block Nicaragua's plans to dredge the Río San Juan despite claiming that the project is severely underbudgeted and would reduce the flow of water in the river. Based on a July 2009 ruling, in which the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, examined the rights of both countries over the Río San Juan, Nicaragua has the right to dredge the river that marks the ...read full story... |
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Russian ship with 20 sailors on board rams into rocks off Sakhalin |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
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(en.rian.ru) A Russian dredging vessel has rammed into rocks off the south-western coast of Sakhalin Island, trapping 20 sailors on board, a local emergencies official said on Wednesday. The incident reportedly took place late on Tuesday near the island of Moneron, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Sakhalin. One sailor is missing following the incident, according to the local prosecutor's office. Seventeen of the ...read full story... |
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Dredging issues may delay Vallarpadam commissioning |
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 |
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(The Hindu Businessline) The inordinate delay in completing the capital dredging work for the Vallarpadam ICTT project may lead to the postponement of the soft launch of the project's operations scheduled for later this month by the terminal operator DP World. Informed sources in the port told Business Line that the terminal operator had made it clear to the port that there is no question of ...read full story... |
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Dredging towards the centenary of the Panama Canal |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 |
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(IHC Merwede) A new custom-built cutter suction dredger destined for the Panama Canal has been launched by IHC Merwede on Monday 6 September. The 12,000kW vessel has been designed and built by IHC Beaver Dredgers at its Sliedrecht shipyard in The Netherlands for the Panama Canal Authority* (ACP – the Panama Government’s autonomous agency). QUIBIÁN I** was named and ...read full story... |
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Port Manatee Berth 12 Dredging set to Begin in January |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 |
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(The Bradenton Times) PORT MANATEE – Work is set to begin this January after the Manatee County Port Authority announced in July that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. won the contract for Port Manatee's Berth 12 dredging project. The project, which includes dredging the berth to a depth of 41 feet at mean-low-water and extending it from 1,000 feet to nearly 1,600 feet, is the final piece ...read full story... |
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Cooperation agreement IHC and Liebherr |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 |
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(IHC Merwede) IHC Engineering Services, part of IHC Merwede, and Liebherr-France (Mining and Marine Excavators division) have announced that they have entered into a cooperation agreement. Both parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding joint activity in relation to product development, sales and global service of IHC backhoe dredgers. This collaboration ...read full story... |
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P18-b lake rehab frozen; worst flood scenario feared |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 |
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(manilastandardtoday) The government is restudying the P18.7 billion-worth rehabilitation of Laguna Lake despite clearance by the Department of Justice amid concerns over a repeat of last year’s devastating floods. At the Senate on Monday during deliberations over the proposed P1.6 trillion national budget, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said he had sat down with the Department of ...read full story... |
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35th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation |
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Sunday, 05 September 2010 |
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(IADC) More than ever dredging is in the news. Be it the land reclamation projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi or the cleanup actions in the Gulf of Mexico and China, or the urgency of coastal protection against rising sea levels in this time of climate change. All are reasons why governments continue to invest in maritime infrastructure projects. |
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Illichivsk Sea Commercial Port Infrastructure Development Project |
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 |
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(ERBD) Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (the Port) intends using the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [the Bank] for a project to modernise the Port’s infrastructure including reconstruction of dilapidated existing berths, supply of cargo handling equipment and carry out dredging. The proposed project, which has a total estimated cost of EUR 38.9 million ...read full story... |
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Two new offshore windfarm contracts signed by Nordsee GeoSea |
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 |
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(DEME) The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh - GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the Trianel West Borkum II wind ...read full story... |
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Important Australian contract |
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 |
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(Van Oord) Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 3rd September 2010 – Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia. |
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