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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster NV issued a trading update following its recent AGM which showed a slightly higher revenue in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the same period…

2nd July 2012

Boskalis holds steady through economic storm

2nd July 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

IHC Merwede has launched the stationary cutter suction dredger Miondo at its shipyard at Sliedrecht in the Netherlands.

2nd July 2012

Innovative Beaver at home in remote areas

2nd July 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Walcon Marine is in the final stages of completing a workboat berthing facility for Aberdeen Harbour Board.

29th June 2012

New berthing facility at Aberdeen

29th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Teams from the Environment Agency in the UK have been working across 3km of flood embankment in Driffield, East Yorkshire, to reduce the risk of flooding and create valuable new habitat for…

29th June 2012

New habitat to bring wildlife back to River Hull

29th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Oceana, an international advocacy group working to protect the world’s oceans, has launched a report outlining how saving the worlds oceans can help to feed the UN projected 9bn people projected to…

29th June 2012

Oceana optimism

29th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A Damen Dredging Equipment environmental cutter section dredger type ECSD450 has been commissioned by Changjiang Chongqing Waterway Engineering Bureau for environmental and maintenance work on Chinese waterways.

28th June 2012

Damen dredges Chinese waterways

28th June 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Two giant German logistics groups are the only ones now still in the running to win the concession to build and operate the planned €200m Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB).

28th June 2012

Local consortia in run-off for Germany‘s OTB

28th June 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has abandoned plans to build their next generation offshore wind turbine at the Kent port of Sheerness.

28th June 2012

Vestas abandons Sheerness production plans

28th June 2012

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

One of the many interesting boats on the pontoon at Seawork 2012 was the ultra-lightweight LMD78 RIB from Swedish designer and builder Light Marin.

28th June 2012

Heavy duty, lightweight RIB at Seawork

28th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

German yard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) is working on the design and construction of an innovative ro-pax ferry for Scotland that has to be particularly reliable.

28th June 2012

Innovative ro-pax build goes to FSG

28th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Eurocarrier 2611 Martine P, built by Neptune Shipyards in the Netherlands for GSS Marine Services, went into service in April of this year.

28th June 2012

JUNE 2012 Front Cover Story

28th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Energy supplier Eneco has selected Van Oord as preferred supplier for the construction of the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore windfarm (formerly known as Q10).

28th June 2012

Van Oord for Luchterduinen windfarm

28th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Following a meeting in Oslo with senior executives of AF Group and Lerwick Port Authority, Scotland’s First Minister has said that the Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands Enterprise would each make…

28th June 2012

Scottish government backs harbour project for Shetland

28th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

“In the beginning the windfarm industry simply didn’t know what it wanted, said Ben Coleman, sales director of South Boats Special Projects.

28th June 2012

Finding out what’s needed

28th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The newest MAN PrimeServ Academy held its official opening recently at Frederikshavn in Denmark. It thus became the 11th training and education centre in MAN Diesel & Turbo’s global network.

28th June 2012

MAN for Denmark

28th June 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

In the wake of the Costa Concordia incident, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the European Cruise Council (ECC) has adopted two new safety policies - the latest in a series…

27th June 2012

New safety measures for cruise industry

27th June 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Joop Timmermans, a well known figure in the towage and salvage industry, stepped down as managing director of International Transport Contractors (ITC) at the beginning of June. Now aged 68, Joop started…

27th June 2012

TOWLINES

27th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch engineering and consultancy firm DHV has been made responsible for the construction management of 11 new fishing ports in Ghana.

27th June 2012

DHV to build fishing ports in Ghana

27th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Broads Authority’s partners from The Netherlands, Belgium and France visited the Broads in the UK recently to discuss research into innovative solutions for dredging, treatment and reusing sediment.

27th June 2012

Learning from dredging work in the Broads

27th June 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Cargotec reports that it has secured a number of linkspan projects in recent months, including new orders in Norway, Denmark and Germany.

27th June 2012

Linkspans ordered to support new ferry services

27th June 2012