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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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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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Boskalis wins Euro 90 million worth of contracts in Nigeria |
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Monday, 09 May 2011 |
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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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BAM shares jump on Van Oord stake sale talk |
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Friday, 25 March 2011 |
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(Reuters) - Shares in Dutch builder Royal BAM hit a 13-month high on Thursday on speculation it was in talks to sell its stake in dredger Van Oord in a deal that could be worth about 250 million euros ($351.7 million). BAM owns a 21.5 percent stake in Van Oord and has been looking to divest the business to pay down debt. Although it has pushed back the timing of a deal several times due to the recession, the company ...read full story... |
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Boskalis seeks salvage work in post-quake Japan |
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Thursday, 17 March 2011 |
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(Reuters) - Royal Boskalis Westminster, the world's largest dredger which reported bumper profits for 2010 on Thursday, said it is talking to partners in Japan about possible salvage work following the massive quake. The Dutch dredging firm warned that given current market conditions and its project-based business, it did not expect to match last year's record result in 2011, although ...read full story... |
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Boskalis reports record result for 2010 |
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Thursday, 17 March 2011 |
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Papendrecht, 17 March 2011 -Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. achieved a record result in 2010, with net profit rising 36% to an all-time high of € 310.5 million (2009: € 227.9 million). Revenue growth of 23% to € 2.7 billion represented another new record (2009: € 2.2 billion). This exceptional performance was partly attributable to a very strong operational year as well as the contribution from SMIT Internationale N.V. following the acquisition. |
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Van Oord: 2010: turnover rises to EUR 1,578 million |
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Saturday, 05 March 2011 |
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Turnover rises to EUR 1,578 million, net profit EUR 165 million, company financially very healthy, order portfolio stands at EUR 1.9 billion, new investment programme of EUR 1 billion. 2010 turned out to be an excellent year for Van Oord. A solid level of capacity utilisation, both staff and equipment, and the extraordinary tax gain led to an outstanding profit of EUR 165 million. We continued our 2009 strategy and achieved a ...read full story... |
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