Dragflow extends its wide range of products, launching on the market an innovative “booster station”. The new booster pump is proposed together with traditional submersible dredge pumps and it’s perfect for projects that require a very long delivery distance, or to reach a high discharge level. The booster station has been completely designed, manufactured and [...]
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading construction equipment manufacturer, has announced that it is exhibiting construction equipment at INTERMAT 2012 in Paris, France. At the expo, Hyundai Heavy is presenting the new eco-friendly 9A Series and hybrid excavators that are 25% more fuel efficient. The most significant difference between the [...]
Repairing the special ship with “high quality, time accuracy, safety, and excellent service”, Boluomiao Shipyard obtained praise from the ship owner, and established an important flag for the brand of BLM. On Apr. 5th, Boluomiao Shipyard completed the big dredger “Tian Rui 1″ successfully and achieved the good reputation again. In the process of repairing, [...]
Coda Octopus Group, Inc. announced that the world-renowned survey department of Rijkswaterstaat in the Netherlands has just taken delivery of their first integrated Underwater Inspection System (UIS(TM)) from Coda Octopus Products. Rijkswaterstaat’s survey department, whose remit covers mainly inshore rivers and canals, plans to put their new UIS(TM) to a diverse range of applications [...]
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has ordered Teledyne Odom’s new MB1 multibeam sonar system. This is Seatronics’ first order for the system and it plans to purchase more during the year. Dave Currie, managing director for Seatronics, said, “We can see that a lot of thought has gone into the design of MB1. The price and [...]
Coastline Surveys Ltd has recently completed two large Geotechnical Vibrocore campaigns for Hanson Aggregates Marine Ltd (HAML). The first work scope comprised 58 core locations offshore Norfolk. Specialist Geotechnical Survey Vessel, MV Flatholm, was mobilised and work scope completed with Coastline’s ‘High Powered Vibrocore, ‘C-Core-HP’, in 5m configuration, average recovery overall was 4 metres. The [...]
Finding a suitable destination for dredged material can be challenging. Although most dredged material is clean, people’s pre-conceptions about the quality of dredged material are often quite negative. The discussion, the pros and cons, about where and when dredged material can be used or placed is often a long, drawn-out procedure. So starting to [...]
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion and new building announced today that it has delivered Self Elevating Platform Samrat to the owner, Mumbai, India-based AFCONS Infrastructure. The Platform was built at Drydocks World – Dubai shipyard. The Self Elevating Platform is intended for use for construction and maintenance of port jetties, [...]
Recently Imtech Marine, specialized in system integration, successfully completed three innovative new-build vessel projects in Singapore; Seven Borealis for Subsea 7, Rockpiper for a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Flintstone for Tideway, part of the DEME Group. The ships will all operate in the oil and gas market. Imtech Marine has combined specific [...]
Shipyard Kooiman will build a mono dredger pontoon for Martens & van Oord. The pontoon will have the measurement of 60 x 15 meters and will be delivered on the 1st of February 2013. About Kooiman Group Versatile, all-round and customer orientated. These are the keywords of what the Kooiman Group is all about. Forming [...]
