Marine Construction News – Page 151
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NewsSmall ship work points up yard flexibility
Boat and small ship repair and refit have pointed up some flexible capabilities at the three shipyards in Germany’s Privinvest group.
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NewsOld German ferry is transformed
Instead of scrapping its 35 year old ferry ''Adler Dania'', north German operator Adler Schiffe this year spent €2 million redesigning and converting it into an excursion and event ship which has now gone back into service.
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NewsDiesel electric FSV
A new design of fast supply vessel delivered by De Hoop shipyard in Holland is the first to be fitted with a unique propulsion system that is claimed to offer significant fuel savings. This vessel which has been built to support offshore oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico is ...
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NewsRed Bay up and away
Red Bay Boats in Northern Ireland has won two orders for its new Stormforce 1650 vessel. The orders have been placed by Sea Harris, a ferry operator on the Isle of Lewis for day trips to St Kilda island, off Scotland, and by Belfast Harbour Commissioners for use as a ...
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NewsPloughing the seabed for energy
Ecosse Subsea Systems (UK) has won its third seabed clearance contract on a major wind farm construction project. The subsea engineering specialist has started offshore operations on the Westermost Rough development, located eight kilometres off the Yorkshire coast, east of Hull, UK.
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NewsWalkways upgraded
Totnes, UK based Docking Solutions has just won a contract from Sutton Harbour Holdings for the upgrading of walkways in Sutton Lock, at the Barbican, Plymouth. The contract was negotiated during Mercator Media’s Seawork International 2014 event, which proved another successful show for Docking Solutions.
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NewsIHC’s awkward load
A 45m high pipe-lay tower belonging to IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB) has left the UK’s Port of Tyne destined for Rotterdam.
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French acquisition
Rohr International Dredge Holdings, Inc. has acquired Eurl Rohr France, including its current backlog, inventory and all associated intellectual property (IPR). Rohr France, which is based in Betting, France, was a Rohr licensee and will continue at the same location, operating as a subsidiary of Rohr Bagger GmbH, a subsidiary ...
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NewsDredge Yard expansion
Dredge Yard has recently invested in additional new machines in its workshop in Turkey including CNC vertical lathes and a CNC Pattern Maker in order to increase its capacity in the machining and assembly shop to bring these functions up to the capacity of the casting and fettling shops.
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Riffgrund foundations
GeoSea has just finalised the installation of 77 foundations on the DONG Energy Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm. The installation works, including transport from the fabrication yard to the marshalling harbour, have finished ahead of schedule.
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8 expressions of interest at Portsmouth
UK commercial property agent Lambert Smith Hampton has confirmed to ''Maritime Journal'' that it has received eight expressions of interest from potential tenants from the UK and mainland Europe for Shipyard Portsmouth, the site of the former BAE Systems facility at the Royal Navy base in Portsmouth.
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NewsNew pilot boat for Teesport
PD Ports at Teesport, UK has invested over £1M in a new pilot vessel, built by Anglesey based Holyhead Marine Services Limited.
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NewsNew pontoon for Harwich lifeboat station
One of the UK RNLI Eastern region''s busiest stations has had a new pontoon installed for its all weather lifeboat.
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NewsDredging heads in the spotlight at SMM
Italy based dredger and dredging equipment manufacturer Italdraghe will be showcasing its BDC dredging head for excavators and a BDC 200 on its stand at SMM in Hamburg next month.
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NewsDEME's healthy €660m order book
Belgium based DEME Group is maintaining a healthy order book of some €3bn thanks to new orders, well spread worldwide across dredging, energy related and environmental activities. The total value of these new orders represents approximately €660m.
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NewsAirport proposal puts Thames habitat at risk
HR Wallingford has submitted an independent response to a call for evidence from the UK Airports Commission. It called for evidence to inform study outputs for feasibility work on an inner Thames Estuary airport proposal.
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NewsGrab dredger delivery for South Africa
The South African company Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has named its 750m3 grab hopper dredger, ‘Italeni’, during a special ceremony hosted by the shipbuilder IHC Merwede in the shipyard of IHC Merwede''s partner, MTG Dolphin, in Varna, Bulgaria.
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NewsYoung CEDA events in Delft and Hamburg
The Dutch Section of Young CEDA hosted an event recently at the Delft University of Technology to give students and young professional an insight into working in the dredging industry.
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NewsDutch dredging at home and abroad
Dutch dredging majors Boskalis and Van Oord are in a consortium which been awarded work associated with the expansion of the Singapore Tuas Mega Port development.
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NewsPlain end couplings save the day
US towing company McAllister repeatedly experienced leaks in the engine cooling water line on its harbour tug, the ‘Robert E. McAllister’, when bolted-sleeve couplings failed.
