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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging major Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the deepening of a channel in Hazira, India. The contract value amounts to € 36m and the client is Essar Bulk…

9th September 2009

Substantial award for Van Oord in India

9th September 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Ballast Nedam' s heavy lift vessel Svanen left the port of Rotterdam early this month after being commissioned by Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors to drive 56 steel piles for the…

9th September 2009

Heavy lifter Svanen to drive piles for wind turbines

9th September 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) in the UK is developing nationwide digital maps of human activities in the marine environment. The specific layers relating to commercial fisheries, renewable energy, mariculture and…

9th September 2009

Key mapping role for ABPmer

9th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Netherlands will meet its treaty obligations to the Flemish region of Belgium and dredge the sea lane to the port of Antwerp, the Dutch prime minister has confirmed.According to a report…

9th September 2009

Dutch pledge on Westerschelde dredging

9th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Land reclamation for the Durrat Marina islands, part of the luxury Durrat al Bahrain residential resort, has been completed ahead of schedule. Over five million m³ of material has been reclaimed in…

9th September 2009

Reclamation at Durrat Marina complete

9th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord has been awarded two project contracts to reinforce coastal defences in The Netherlands. The contracts involve a total sum of some € 48m, with Van Oord’ s activities accounting for…

9th September 2009

Van Oord reinforcing Dutch coast

9th September 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Birse in the UK says it is currently at work replacing massive lifting chains and renewing other major pieces of equipment on the Dartford Creek barrier on the south side of the…

9th September 2009

Birse at work on Dartford Creek barrier maintenance programme

9th September 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Operational oceanography played a key role in the safe rescue of all 155 people on board US Airways Flight 1549 which crashed into the Hudson River on 15 January 2009, as Alan…

9th September 2009

Oceanography key in air crash rescue

9th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

A tough challenge was set for Ijmuiden based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) when Silverburn Shipping Group was looking for a shallow draft offshore supply vessel for Caspian Sea service.

9th September 2009

AHTS ice and shallow draft design challenge

9th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Smit Salvage and Bukser og Berging refloated the Panamanian flag bulk carrier ‘ Full City’ last month in a Lloyd’ s Open Form operation on the coast of Norway. The 1995 built…

9th September 2009

Salvors succeed following Full City grounding

9th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

HRP will continue in business as ZF Marine HRP within the ZF Marine Group, whose strategic goal is expanding its range of products for complete marine propulsion systems. HRP produces a wide…

9th September 2009

HRP acquisition boosts ZF in workboat market

9th September 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The Green Ship of the Future, the Danish maritime initiative, has received the International Environmental Award from the Sustainable Shipping organisation for being the most environmentally friendly shipping initiative. Sustainable Shipping is…

8th September 2009

Green Ship wins Sustainable Shipping award

8th September 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Irish firm Arklow Marine Services has recently delivered a bit of a surprise in the shape of a 12m amphibious aluminium monohull – and yes, that means wheels underneath.

8th September 2009

Beag Inis drives ashore in Kerry

8th September 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Wicklow based tug and workboat operator Island Shipping has taken delivery of the latest addition to its fleet, the Island Meercat. The Irish company’ s 15.5m road transportable multi-cat type vessel was…

8th September 2009

Irish operator welcomes Island Meercat

8th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

When the new tug CMS Buster arrived in the Clyde with a tow late in August it represented a major step forward for Greenock based Clyde Marine Services.

8th September 2009

A new flagship for Clyde Marine Services

8th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

German operator Fairplay Towage has taken delivery of Fairplay X, the third of four new vessels from the most recent batch of orders from Astilleros Armon of Navia in Spain. This latest…

8th September 2009

One delivery and one launching for Fairplay at Armon

8th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The tug fleet operated by the Turkish Maritime Organization to provide escort and emergency response services in the Bosphorus has been increased in size with the addition of two further vessels.

8th September 2009

Two more Voith tractors with increased fire power protect the Bosphorus

8th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Survey specialists Emu Limited have purchased the tug Shannon for use as a survey vessel. The company has added the 35m tug to its current fleet of four vessels, the largest of…

8th September 2009

A new lease of life for Shannon

8th September 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The project to refurbish and preserve the fifty year old ocean going tug Elbe took a major step forward during the first days of September when the historic vessel was towed from…

8th September 2009

TOWLINES September 2009

8th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

According to a leading German feeder shipping company, new delays in plans to deepen Hamburg’ s Elbe River to 14.5 m to allow access for ever bigger boxships are dangerous and have…

8th September 2009

Operators fume over more Elbe deepening delays

8th September 2009