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Weston explores need for dredging
(The Chief) Squamish – Conservative Member of Parliament John Weston toured the West Coast Railway Heritage Park and the Mamquam Blind Channel on Monday (June 29) in an attempt to better familiarize himself with Squamish’s financial needs as he lobbies for federal funds. With the Mamquam Blind Channel at high tide, local representatives including Squamish Nation council member Dale Harry, Squamish Harbour ...read full story...
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Works minister defends govt's decision to dredge harbor
(The Nassau Guardian) While the Progressive Liberal Party continues to slam the government for continuing to forge ahead with plans for the $50 million Nassau Harbour dredging exercise despite the global economic meltdown, Works and Transport Minister Neko Grant said yesterday the economic crunch won't last forever and The Bahamas' infrastructure "must be in good condition" when the economy rebounds. Grant's ...read full story...
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£250,000 repairs for breakwater at Berwick
(Berwick Advertisor) ALMOST £250,000 is to be spent on repairs to the breakwater at Berwick. The Berwick breakwater interim repairs scheme has been put into the county council's programme as urgent work, after new damage was discovered last autumn. Several large stones have been dislodged from the end of the breakwater just below the lighthouse and there is also some undermining in the seabed. The objective ...read full story...
Keppel O&M picks up US$20.7 million in contracts
(Energy Current) ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has secured contracts worth SGD 30 million (US$20.7 million) through its overseas subsidiaries for the upgrading and repair of three vessels. Keppel O&M CEO Tong Chong Heong said, "Keppel O&M's network of yards in the key markets, coupled with their strong execution capabilities and quick turnaround, continue to advance ...read full story...
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Town gears up for Three Mile Harbor dredging
(27-East) The long-awaited plan for a comprehensive dredging of Three Mile Harbor is one step closer to reality this month, after the East Hampton Town Board voted on June 18 to execute plans to clear shoaling from the 7,000-foot long channel this coming winter. The navigation channel through the harbor was last dredged in 1999, when more than 100,000 cubic yards of sand were dumped on a nature preserve on ...read full story...
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Saemanguem to Fuel North Jeolla's Industralization
(KoreaTimes) The identity of North Jeolla Province as a national breadbasket is expected to be transformed over the next 10 years with the completion of a free economic zone, in an area that is often considered one of Korea's most underdeveloped regions. The province's reclaimed Saemangeum area and port city of Gunsan will jointly house an international business complex by 2020, devoted to boosting the automobile, shipbuilding ...read full story...
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Belgium's DEME signs 110 mln euros new orders
(Reuters) - Belgian dredging company DEME, co-owned by holding company Ackermans & van Haaren (ACKB.BR), said on Monday it has won contracts worth a total of 110 million euros ($154 million) for work on three offshore wind parks. Work offshore the German island of Borkum was already underway, the group said. A second contract with Danish company DONG Energy to install offshore structures in the Irish ...read full story...
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Rolls Royce in £66m Norway deal
(FT) Rolls Royce, best known for its aircraft engines, has agreed to buy a stake in a Norwegian maker of ship winches, as it continues to build out its marine offering. Rolls will pay NKr700m (£66m) for a 33 per cent stake in ODIM, which makes cable handling systems for the offshore oil and gas industry, saying the move will facilitate closer co-operation between the two companies. Although small in size, the deal fits into a ...read full story...
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DCI Board recommends 50% Dividend for 2008-09
(Equity Bulls) Dredging Corporation of India Ltd has announced that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on June 29, 2009, inter alia, has declared dividend @ 50% on the paid-up share capital of the Company i.e. Rs 5.00 (Five Rupees only) per equity share of Rs 10/- each. The stock closed the day at Rs.500.65, up by Rs.14.20 or 2.92%. The stock hit an intraday high of Rs.510.75 and low of Rs.487. The total ...read full story...
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Worldwide offshore rig count declines
(Energy Current) HOUSTON: The offshore rig count showed little week-to-week change in most rig markets, but globally the count fell by a net three rigs, according to ODS-Petrodata's Weekly Offshore Rig Count. Worldwide, the contracted mobile offshore rig count fell by a net three rigs to 568, and fleet utilization declined to 78.0 percent. The worldwide offshore rig fleet size remains unchanged at 728 drilling rigs, although ...read full story...
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Belgium Govt: Crew Of Hijacked Belgian Ship Head Home |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
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(The Wall Street Journal) BRUSSELS (AFP)--Crew members of a Belgian ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia in mid-April will be re-united with their families early next week, Belgium's government crisis centre said in a statement Saturday. The announcement came after the ship the Pompei - which was hijacked at dawn on April 18 about 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Seychelles and taken to the Somalia ...read full story... |
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South likely to get Rs 2183 cr port projects |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
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(Business-Standard) The shipping ministry is planning to award six port development projects worth Rs 2,183 crore in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka as part of its 100-day agenda programme. This apart, it has proposed to declare Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep as major ports, taking the total number of major ports in the country to 14. The projects would come up ..read full story... |
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RWE receives permission to build Tromp Binnen wind farm |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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(Energy current) ESSEN, GERMANY: RWE Innogy received permission from the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Hydraulic Engineering (Rijkswaterstaat) to build the Tromp Binnen offshore wind farm. The wind farm is dimensioned for a capacity of 300 MW and is planned to be built around 47 miles (75 km) off the coast at Callantsoog in northern Holland. According to Dutch law, the permit entitles RWE Innogy to ..read full story... |
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Maridive of Egypt to Sign Oil Pipeline Accords in Russia, India |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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(Bloomberg) Maridive & Oil Services SAE, an Egyptian marine and oil support service company, said its units Valentine Maritime and Maridive Offshore Projects may sign contracts to build pipelines in Russia and India in four months. Maridive, which offers services in Indonesia and Malaysia, has also bid for a contract in Nigeria, Chairman Issa Eleishsaid in an interview at his office in Cairo on June 30. Revenue ...read full story... |
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Paradip Port signs concession agreement with Blue Water |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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(SteelGuru) According to press release, a concession agreement between Paradip Port Trust and Blue Water Iron Ore Terminal Pvt Limited, the concessionaire has been signed today for construction of a deep draught iron ore terminal in the presence of Mr GK Vasan union cabinet minister of shipping and other senior officers including Secretary (Shipping) Mr APVN Sarma, additional secretary & financial ..read full story... |
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Thornton Bank Offshore Project Officially Commissioned |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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(Renewable Energy World) Thornton Bank, Belgium's first offshore wind farm, has been officially inaugurated. "This innovative project in all conditions: distance to the coast, water depth and installed turbine capacity, will be a landmark for our country and to the world," Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy. Currently comprising six turbines in the 5 MW class following the first phase of development, another ...read full story... |
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Australia sets sail on sea power |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
(Eco Generation) Murdoch University’s Professor David Harries discusses ocean power technology developments, the emerging Australian market and the challenges ahead with Lucy Rochlin. The race is on to commercialise ocean power, and Australia has a chance to play a leading role, according to Professor Harries. He says that Australian ocean power technologies are certainly developing in line with ...read full story... |
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CEDA Dredging Days finds ‘tools for the future’ |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
(Maritime Journal) The CEDA Dredging Days 2009 conference and exhibition will be held alongside Europort Maritime in the Conference Centre of the Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 5 and 6 November. Its theme will be ‘Dredging tools for the future’. Many technological innovations have been introduced since 2003, when CEDA Dredging Days was dedicated to dredging tools and technology. Today the ...read full story... |
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Plan opens up areas for offshore wind farms in Mass. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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(NECN: Peter Howe, Boston) - It has been the ocean version of a land rush off the coast of Massachusetts in recent years -- a flurry of proposals for not just wind farms but liquefied natural gas terminals, pipelines, cables and other construction. Now the state's moving to bring order to deciding what gets built where within three miles of the coast. If you are familiar with the idea of a town zoning map, showing what can ...read full story... |
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Port of Hueneme dredging completed |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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(Ventura County Star) The port is a little deeper, the beach a little bigger, and local officials say they’re a lot happier after the completion of a one-year, $15 million dredging project at the Port of Hueneme. With a large barge in the background, Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, praised the joint effort by the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers and the port to dig out more than 50 years’ worth of accumulated silt to ...read full story... |
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Datamar: Ports, terminals & related infrastructure |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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(Datamar) Brazil’s Special Secretariat for Ports (SEP) and Espirito Santo state government announced a R$117m (US$60m) dredging programme for Vitoria, to remove rock outcrops, increase draft to 14 metres and widen the channel from 70m to 120m. Environmental approval is in hand and work is to begin in October and be completed by end 2010. |
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IADC International Dredging Seminar |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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(Hydro International) From 15th to 19th June, 22 young professionals from Albania, Bahrain, Cameroon, China, Denmark, Gambia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, UAE and Vietnam spent a week in The Netherlands learning about the intricacies and challenges of dredging and marine construction. The 32nd IADC International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation was organised by the ...read full story... |
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