Marine Construction News – Page 116
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NewsBigRoll’s fourth
The Netherlands-headquartered heavy marine transportation provider BigRoll Shipping has taken delivery of its fourth and final MC Class vessel from Cosco Dalian Shipyard Co. Ltd.
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NewsWorld's first onboard racetrack
The world’s first full-scale shipboard racetrack is now on the water for owner Norwegian Cruise Line, thanks in part to Dutch marine decking specialist, Bolidt.
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NewsRolec launches monthly payment packages
UK-based, pontoon, port and marina services specialist Rolec has introduced a range of monthly payment packages which allow marina owners to spread out the cost of installations and/or refurbishments over a 3 or 5 year period.
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NewsCOSCO calls on C-Job
Netherlands-headquartered C-Job Naval Architects will provide Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Offshore with the Basic Design package for DEME Group’s offshore installation vessel ‘Orion’.
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NewsElectric solar ships
German yard, Ostseestaal, has produced a tourist boat powered only by electric motors with the significant application of solar panels. From the experience of building and operating this first vessel the company has developed plans for a larger design with more than double the passenger capacity.
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News‘Bibby WaveMaster 1’ launched for fit-out
The eagerly anticipated 90m Service Operations Vessel ‘Bibby WaveMaster 1’ has been launched at Damen’s yard in Galati, Romania.
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NewsLiverpool2 to boost Scotland’s deepest container terminal
Scotland’s deepest container terminal expects to double its business in the next five years thanks to the recent opening of £400million ‘sister’ terminal – Liverpool2.
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NewsStad Ship Tunnel
Construction of the World’s first large ship tunnel could start early next year. The project is now in Norway’s National Transportation Plan which greatly increases the likelihood that the NOK 2.3 billion funding allocated for this project will allow work to start in the near future.
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NewsDamen Shiprepair completes works on Jan de Nul vessels
The recently streamlined Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has just completed works in Vlissingen and Brest on two major vessels in the fleet of dredging and marine construction specialist Jan de Nul Group.
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NewsMapso Pi series pilot boats for Egypt
28 Pi series pilot boats have now been built or ordered from Egyptian engineering company Mapso since the first of class hit the water in 2007- All of them featuring the famous Camarc double chine hull form.
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NewsUkrainian seaports look to their infrastructure
The Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA) says its 2017 strategy will focus heavily on the modernisation and development of its national port infrastructure.
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NewsGermans plough millions into North Sea ports
The German coastal state of Lower Saxony says it is ploughing €57 million into infrastructure development in its North Sea ports this year and spending another €33 million on maintaining existing facilities.
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NewsMore dredging clout for Kiel Canal
Dredging and excavation are among the main tasks for the latest multi-purpose work-horse to enter service on Germany’s 98kms long Kiel Canal – the world’s busiest man-made waterway.
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NewsGorch Fock reprieved as repair costs soar
Repairs and maintenance being carried out on the veteran German Navy sail training ship ''Gorch Fock II'' will continue and last into 2018 despite soaring costs now being put at about €75 million.
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NewsDiesel electric dredger order
Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has ordered three 3,500 m3 Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers to be built at Keppel Nantong, and these vessels which will operate in environmentally sensitive areas, will not be LNG powered.
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Cortec Corporation celebrates 40 years of fighting corrosion
When US company Cortec produced its first shipment of 1200 vapour corrosion inhibitor emitters in a garage in 1977, it would have been difficult to envision subsequent growth into the multimillion-dollar global enterprise Cortec has become today.
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NewsItalian expertise bales out British marina
Yacht Havens Group, owner of nine yachting facilities in the U.K and the Netherlands, has taken delivery of a new Italdraghe MK III Marina Master 8000 Dredger at its Fambridge Yacht Haven location in Essex, UK.
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NewsNew contracts for Land & Water
Land & Water has landed a multi-million pound contract with the Canal and River Trust National Dredging Contract to be suppliers to the trust for the next ten years.
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NewsParker Kittiwake expands distributor network with appointment in Denmark
Parker Kittiwake, the condition monitoring technology specialist, has announced the appointment of a new distribution partner in Denmark.
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NewsRefit following mine damage
While working on a project in Indonesia, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Volvox Terranova’ was heavily damaged by an old sea mine. Van Oord decided to repair and modernise the vessel at the same time.
