The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the [...]
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors (“the Board”) has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. The Board approved a $0.017 per share cash dividend, to be paid on September 17, 2010 to the holders of record of common stock of the Company at the close [...]
The Holland Pavilion with its 850 square meters will be styled in the theme of the joint international branding campaign Maritime by Holland that was launched in 2009. 47 Dutch companies will present themselves in the Pavilion to the worldwide shipbuilding industry that comes together at SMM from 7 till 10 September. Visitors can find [...]
Besides the many trailing suction hopper dredgers already seen on Maasvlakte 2, two cutter suction dredgers are now at work. These special vessels ‘cut’ the soil under water free with a rotating cutter head, suck it up, and pump it to the right destination via a pipeline (floating as well as over land). This cutting [...]
GE today submitted comments on the report issued by a panel of independent scientists who evaluated the Hudson River dredging project and recommended major changes after finding that the project did not and could not meet the performance standards established by EPA. GE thanked the panel for setting forth a road map for a process [...]
The Swan River inlet was cloudy at least far as Melville last week, with dredging commenced on the second phase of deepening the Fremantle Inner Port. Widely criticised, the dredging began earlier this month on removing layers of limestone from the river and depositing them 7km off Cottesloe Beach. The first report, by environmental marine [...]
An official with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection confirmed Monday morning that Hernando County has been given the all-clear to proceed with long-awaited dredging of the Hernando Beach channel. Despite the threat of legal action, no one met Friday’s deadline to challenge the revised dredge permit. In an e-mail, DEP environmental specialist Andrew May [...]
Boaters want the city to dredge the nearly four hundred miles of canals in the Cape, but budget problems have forced the city to cutback… (winknews) Source: winknews, August 31, 2010;
As the Liberal Express continues to travel through Cape Breton today, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is calling on the federal Conservatives to commit to funding for the dredging of Sydney Harbour to create high-quality jobs and economic development in the region. “The Conservatives are dragging their feet for no good reason when Cape Bretoners’ jobs [...]
On one of its projects in the Caribbean, FG International Holland BV, the Dutch Special Lifting company, recently applied a so called Hydro… Source: Holland BV;
