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RWE orders jack-up crane vessels based on Wartsila-IMS design‏ »

  Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its designer to provide the basic design and consultancy services for...

March 9 2010 / Read More »
USA: GE proposed halting further dredging of Hudson River

USA: GE proposed halting further dredging of Hudson River »

  General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup. GE made...

March 9 2010 / Read More »
Environment: “hot” topic for the dredging industry

Environment: “hot” topic for the dredging industry »

Environment has always been a “hot” topic for the dredging industry, but when the debate around climate change started to heat up several years ago, the dredging industry was in the forefront and ready to...

March 8 2010 / Read More »
USA: PLum Island Beach Re-nourishment Project Gets Attention From Contractors

USA: PLum Island Beach Re-nourishment Project Gets Attention From Contractors »

PLUM ISLAND — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open bids Monday on a long-awaited project of beach re-nourishment at Plum Island and Salisbury. Contractors’ interest in bidding for the project is difficult to gauge...

March 8 2010 / Read More »
USA: Environmental roadblock for dredges at Florida beaches

USA: Environmental roadblock for dredges at Florida beaches »

A tiny marine bristle worm has stopped dredges from pumping sand along Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach for the past decade, while officials spent almost $68 million bulking up the oceanfront to the north...

March 7 2010 / Read More »
USA: Port of Wilmington looks for big upgrades to benefit from dredging

USA: Port of Wilmington looks for big upgrades to benefit from dredging »

The folks at Dole are looking forward to the day when a deeper shipping channel on the Delaware River might allow them to bring in their fruit in bigger ships. But first, they want their equipment...

March 7 2010 / Read More »
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$2.42 billion Yangtze River Delta Dredging project almost completed this month »

$2.42 billion Yangtze River Delta Dredging project almost completed this month

  China’s costliest water transport project, a shipping channel dredging program to boost trade in the Yangtze River Delta area, is due to be completed...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

UK: Hopper Dredger Alexander von Humboldt will backfill new Tyne Tunnel »

UK: Hopper Dredger Alexander von Humboldt will backfill new Tyne Tunnel

Work to backfill the new Tyne Tunnel, which was submerged in the river last month, is due to get under way. Four concrete tubes have...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

Ministry of Ports and Shipping will hire dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation channel (Pakistan) »

Ministry of Ports and Shipping will hire dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation channel (Pakistan)

  The Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday (today) with Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Syed...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

Brazil: $35.5m dredging tender lauched for Fortaleza port »

Brazil: $35.5m dredging tender lauched for Fortaleza port

Brazil’s special ports department (SEP) has launched a 63.5mn-real (US$35.5mn) tender for dredging at Ceará state’s Fortaleza port. Interested parties have until March 26 to...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »

CJS securities rates Orion Marine Group (USA) as market outperformer »

CJS securities rates Orion Marine Group (USA) as market outperformer

According to CJS, Orion Marine Group (NYSE: ORN) reported Q4’09 EPS of $0.15, in-line with their recently reduced estimate of $0.14 and consensus. Sales...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »

UK: Listed TSHD Heron escorted to safety by lifeboat »

UK: Listed TSHD Heron escorted to safety by lifeboat

A 65-metre Dutch dredger, which was taking in water off the South Pembrokeshire coast, was escorted to safety on Friday night (5 March) by...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »

USA: Dredging Supply Company Offers Lease Package For Dredges »

USA: Dredging Supply Company Offers Lease Package For Dredges

Dredging Supply Co. Inc. (DSCI) will be offering a special lease agreement option for its equipment to Philippine mining companies, especially small-scale operators, giving...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »

Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger „Brisbane“ ready for refit »

Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger „Brisbane“ ready for refit

Tenders are called for an out-of-water refit of  Port of Brisbane’s Trailer Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) Brisbane The works include sandblasting and painting to hull and...

Mar 7 2010 / Read More »
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Denmark: Kongsberg Maritime announces new Seapath 300 family of products »

Denmark: Kongsberg Maritime announces new Seapath 300 family of products

    The next generation of the Kongsberg Seatex Seapath family will be displayed on the Kongsberg Maritime stand (E600) and demonstrated aboard MMT Seabeam at Oceanology International 2010. The new Seapath 300 family of products offers the best possible combination of GNSS signals and inertial measurements...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

Coin flip will make decision in Beach replenishment project (USA) »

Coin flip will make decision in Beach replenishment project (USA)

 A coin flip may decide whether Sea Isle City or Avalon gets its upcoming beach replenishment first. The neighboring municipalities joined together for a $10.4 million project to pump 1.2 million cubic yards of sand on beaches battered by erosion. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s work is...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

Port of Durban: Dredger Pallieter provides ‘water ballet’ »

Port of Durban: Dredger Pallieter provides ‘water ballet’

The R4 billion project to widen and deepen the Port of Durban entrance channel is just about complete, apart from a few finishing touches. Transnet Projects held a roadshow to ‘show off’ what has been done during which the dredger Pallieter and two harbour tugs...

Mar 9 2010 / Read More »

Fiji government launches Nadi River dredging tender »

Fiji government launches Nadi River dredging tender

DREDGING work on the Nadi River will be outsourced by the Land and Mineral Resources Department. Management director Lakshman Mudaliar said the works to the third stage were being outsourced because the department did not have the capacity to do the job. “So we are calling for...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »

UK: Westminster Dredging starts Ramsgate dredging project »

UK: Westminster Dredging starts Ramsgate dredging project

Three weeks of dredging has begun at the Port of Ramsgate in preparation for the launch of a new ferry service to Belgium. Thanet council has contracted Westminster Dredging to carry out the work, which will enable larger vessels to enter the commercial port. Silt and sand...

Mar 8 2010 / Read More »
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US Coast Guard assists crew of dredge taking on water »

US Coast Guard assists crew of dredge taking on water   Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its...

Feb 24 2010 / Read More »

India: DCI will buy three new Dredgers from IHC Netherlands »

India: DCI will buy three new Dredgers from IHC Netherlands   Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its...

Mar 1 2010 / Read More »

Bangladesh: Dredging Supply Company signs contract for two heavy duty and ultra modern dredgers »

Bangladesh: Dredging Supply Company signs contract for two heavy duty and ultra modern dredgers   Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its...

Mar 6 2010 / Read More »
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