Marine Construction News – Page 219
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NewsBoskalis to Deepen Entrance Channel at Port of Melbourne
Royal Boskalis Westminster has confirmed that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the Port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation, and the work will take some two years. The value of the ...
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NewsPassenger Bridge for Malaga Terminal
TEAM, which designs and manufactures of boarding bridges for cruise and ferry terminals, has signed a contract with Malaga Cruceros S.A. to deliver a boarding bridge this summer for the cruise terminal ‘ Estacion Maritima de Levante’ in the Port of Malaga. The terminal was inaugurated on 23 December 2007.
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NewsSinbad Set to Sail with 'Coastal Cat'
Ireland' s Sinbad Marine Services' new vessel was designed by Marine Design International (MDI) and built by Mooney Boats Ltd. Sinbad and Mooney are both based in Killybegs, Co. Donegal. Sinbad approached Mooney several months ago about building them a new aluminium workboat. Mooney in turn contacted MDI and together ...
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News'Powder Barges' Inspire Creative Canalside Workspace
The London Olympic Games in 2012 draw ever closer and British Waterways, the public corporation which manages more than 2,200 miles of canals and rivers in England, Scotland and Wales, is actively engaged with a range of regeneration partners in a number of East London projects to breathe new life ...
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NewsOlympic Games Marine Works Underway
Poole UK based Jenkins Marine is currently working towards helping Britain achieving it’ s Olympic dream. Work is underway in Portland, Dorset, in preparation for the sailing events associated with the Games.
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NewsVan Oord Completes The World
Dutch Dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed the prestigious land reclamation project The World in the emirate of Dubai. The World is a group of 300 artificial islands 4 km off the coast of Dubai that have been shaped in the form of the continents.
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NewsPort of Stralsund Completes ¢14m Expansion
The German Baltic seaport of Stralsund has completed a two year, € 14 expansion which has created three new berths and a new handling area in the Suedhafen district.
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NewsDutch Government Considers Creation of Huge Offshore Island
The Dutch government is considering a radical plan to build a £ 7bn island in the shape of a tulip in the North Sea. The idea behind the concept is to relieve pressure on its overcrowded cities and protect the coastline from rising sea levels.
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Details of Damietta Container Facility Confirmed
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (ADB) have confirmed that they have approved a $150m loan to finance the Damietta container terminal situated on Egypt' s Mediterranean coast.
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Construction of Jeddah's new container terminal under way
The Saudi Trade and Export Development Company (Tusdeer) has announced that construction of its $443m Red Sea Gateway Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) was due to commence this month.
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EBRD provides loan to Ukrainian port
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a € 26m guaranteed loan to Illichivsk Sea Commercial Port, one of the largest ports in Ukraine. The 15 year loan will help the port carry out a programme of modernisation that includes berth reconstruction, procurement of cargo handling ...
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NewsShetland Islands Council Loses Battle to Stop Dredging
The Shetland Islands Council (SIC) is being asked to pay more than £ 5m towards the cost of dredging work at Port of Lerwick, having lost a legal battle to prevent the work going ahead.
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News'Orca II' at Home in the Waves
Ireland' s Safehaven Marine have just launched the first of class vessel to their latest design.
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NewsChanges at Port Ramsgate
Major changes in the way the UK' s Port Ramsgate is run could be in the pipeline. In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government published a report entitled ' Opportunities for Ports in Local Authority Ownership' . Aimed at around 60 ports in England and Wales, it addressed ...
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NewsIADC Dredging and Reclamation Seminar
The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) will hold its 30th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation on 16-20 June this year at Delft in the Netherlands.
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NewsCEDA Encourages the Next Generation
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) continued its campaign to involve students and young professionals more closely with the industry when it announced the winners of the CEDA Dredging Days 2007 poster competition at its gathering which took place within the recent Europort exhibition in Rotterdam.
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NewsBelgian Folk Hero Arrives at Christmas
Dutch shipbuilders IHC Merwede celebrated the Christmas season by launching the 9,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ' Breydel' from its Kinderdijk yard on 22 December. Named after 14th century Flemish freedom fighter Jan Breydel, the newbuild will join the fleet of Belgium' s Dredging International, one of the main ...
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NewsWesterschelde Dredging to Boost Flanders
Work has started on the deepening of the Westerschelde, which is intended to reinforce the competitive position of the port of Antwerp. Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters officially started dredging works at a ceremony last month which marks the official start of the historic deepening works of the Westerschelde.
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NewsMaasvlakte 2 Awarded to Van Oord and Boskalis
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced its intention to award the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port extension project to a consortium consisting of Dutch dredging and marine construction majors Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster. The contract was due to be signed at the beginning of 2008.
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NewsDredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities
When MJ' s founding editor Peter Moth and colleague Ian Cardwell took the first issue of Maritime Journal to the Europort exhibition in Amsterdam in 1987 the dredging industry was not enjoying one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the ...
