Marine Civils – Page 32

  • 'NP289' shows off its beaching abilities
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    Versatile assets chartered for pipe drilling project

    2020-01-31T15:53:00Z

    A Dutch boatbuilder and marine operator has made two of its multi-purpose pontoons available to a Western Scheldt drilling operation.

  • A South Korean installation facing 45m per second winds. Photo: Seaflex
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    Holding the sun catchers: moorings take on new challenges

    2020-01-30T12:36:00Z

    Interest in floating solar is growing fast – but the challenges are also rising, especially for the moorings, writes Stevie Knight.

  • Great Yarmouth has a long history of flooding
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    Great Yarmouth to upgrade flood defences

    2020-01-28T09:39:00Z

    Work is about to start to upgrade the flood defences against tidal flooding in Great Yarmouth under a £40.3 million refurbishment and upgrade programme to increase the level of protection from tidal flooding to more than 4,500 homes and businesses in the area writes Dag Pike.

  • The crane boom leaves Denmark aboard SAL’s ‘M/V Wiebke’
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    Monstrous crane boom will load future turbines

    2020-01-24T15:40:00Z

    Swire Blue Ocean has contracted Blue Water Shipping to transport an installation vessel’s new crane boom from NOV’s manufacturing yard to Denmark aboard SAL’s ‘M/V Wiebke’.

  • 'Pacific Osprey'
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    Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm progresses

    2020-01-22T09:57:00Z

    The final contract for the transportation and installation of turbines at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm has been signed.

  • award presentation
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    Hybrid vessel wins sustainability award

    2020-01-17T11:19:00Z

    Two maritime companies have won an environmental sustainability award for an offshore hybrid vessel that reduces emissions and improves energy efficiency.

  • The combined portfolio enhances JFO’s ability to support its clients
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    Offshore excavation consolidation

    2020-01-14T10:52:00Z

    James Fisher Offshore has strengthened its position as a global life of field support provider of specialist offshore engineering solutions, consolidating its services with those of its sister company, James Fisher Subsea Excavation.

  • Wind turbine jackets ready for deployment
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    Piling template system contract

    2020-01-14T10:00:00Z

    A Netherlands subsea technology company has secured a contract from an undisclosed EPC player for the design and delivery of a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system.

  • These infrastructure works in Harelbeke are part of the overall Seine-Scheldt project
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    5-year infrastructure joint venture completed

    2020-01-14T09:00:00Z

    The maritime infrastructure works on and around the weir lock complex along the Lys in Harelbeke in Belgium have been officially delivered.

  • Artist impression of future design of ‘BigRoll Biscay’
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    Module carrier investment for heavy lift operator

    2020-01-08T10:28:00Z

    A heavy lift shipping operator has just announced the addition of another module carrier into its fleet following purchase of a pre-owned 2015-built vessel.

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    Merger creates heavy lift giant

    2020-01-08T10:07:00Z

    A recent merger has created industry’s largest global provider of engineered heavy lifting and transport services.

  • News

    Supporting future marine construction talent

    2020-01-07T12:09:00Z

    UK marine construction contractor Red7Marine has partnered with Engineering for Industry, offering students pre-employment support and training through its consortium with Colchester Institute.

  • WorkFloat 'folds' up to tow behind a 4x4 on the road
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    WorkFloat goes on tour

    2020-01-07T11:48:00Z

    WorkFloat, a self-propelled floating work platform that ''folds'' up to tow behind a 4x4 on the road or slides into a standard shipping container, has just confirmed dates for a Grand Demo Tour around the UK this February.

  • Jan de Nul's Cutter Suction Dredger 'Fernão de Magalhães'
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    Liepaja work completed ahead of schedule

    2019-12-19T12:59:00Z

    To allow larger vessels to enter and leave the port of Liepaja in Latvia, the access channel to the port has been dredged with removal of nearly three million cubic metres of sediments.

  • The MV ‘Trina’ has been retrofitted with the FS MARINE+ system Photo: SAL Heavy Lift
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    SAL Heavy Lift in emissions technology first

    2019-12-18T10:50:00Z

    SAL Heavy Lift has become the first shipping company in the world to add a new hydrogen/methanol technology to its fleet, with the adoption of an injection system developed by Fuelsave.

  • The vessels are reliable workhorses of the well-known and commonly recognized P1 Type design
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    Heavy lift fleet expansion

    2019-12-17T10:56:00Z

    SAL Heavy Lift will expand its fleet with three heavy lift vessels with 800t lifting capacity in early 2020.

  • The 'Haven Seastabler' is a modular stabilised barge
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    Stabilized barge gets more configurable

    2019-12-16T13:49:00Z

    Red7Marine, has expanded the ability of its fleet in marine access solutions by increasing the versatility of its ‘Haven Seastabler’ barge.

  • Loading the massive 12MW Haliade-X for demo installation. Photo, GE Renewables
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    What comes after the monopile – and what will load it?

    2019-12-16T13:04:00Z

    As offshore wind turbines get heavier there are now more questions than ever about what could take the monopile’s place, writes Stevie Knight.

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    Dredging plans for Scottish harbours

    2019-12-12T11:33:00Z

    Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has made a firm commitment to a three-year dredging contract for maintenance dredging in three of the many harbours that come under its control writes Dag Pike.

  • Fugro’s 'Skate 3' modular jack-up acquiring high-quality geotechnical data
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    Site investigation for island megaproject

    2019-12-11T10:57:00Z

    Denmark has taken serious steps towards building a man made island that will entail the largest construction project in the country since the 17th century.