IHC Engineering Services, part of IHC Merwede, and Liebherr-France (Mining and Marine Excavators division) have announced that they have entered into a cooperation agreement. Both parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding joint activity in relation to product development, sales and global service of IHC backhoe dredgers.
This collaboration is a perfect match between two [...]
September 8, 2010 |
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A new custom-built cutter suction dredger destined for the Panama Canal has been launched by IHC Merwede on Monday 6 September. The 12,000kW vessel has been designed and built by IHC Beaver Dredgers at its Sliedrecht shipyard in The Netherlands for the Panama Canal Authority* (ACP – the Panama Government’s autonomous agency).
QUIBIÁN I was [...]
September 8, 2010 |
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Damen Shipyards Group is proud to announce the sale of its first-ever Twin Axe Catamaran, the Damen High Speed Support Vessel (HSSV) 2610, which is particularly suited for the offshore wind industry.
Marineco UK, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, recently signed for the new HSSV 2610 with an option for a second. The Scottish firm already has [...]
September 5, 2010 |
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Allseas’ Solitaire, the world’s largest pipelay vessel, has started to lay the Gulf of Finland section of the 1,224 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream’s Deputy Director Construction Ruurd Hoekstra and Leo D. Varkevisser, Allseas’ Vice President Projects and Operations, arrived on board the Solitaire to confirm that everything [...]
September 4, 2010 |
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In cooperation with C-Job, HollandMT has developed a new range of compact Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD). The new standard range TSHD varies in hopper content from 700 m3 up to 2,500 m3.
The new designs incorporate customer’s requirements for a highly maneuverable, shallow draught and compact TSHD for maintenance of river deltas, ports and creation [...]
August 30, 2010 |
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The programme starts on Monday 6 September for the naming and launch of 11.787kW stationary Cutter Suction Dredger, QUIBIÁN I.
The ship is being built for the Panama Canal Authority at the IHC Merwede yard, Molendijk 94, Sliedrecht, The Netherlands.
The ceremony will be performed by Mrs Ana Matilde Alemán, wife of Mr Alberto Alemán Zubieta, CEO [...]
August 12, 2010 |
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A revolutionary new dredger that is currently in the process of being commissioned and undergoing sea trials at the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam, is expected to significantly increase the capabilities of the Jeddah-based Huta Marine Works Ltd.
The Dutch-designed vessel is, in effect, a huge floating excavator that is technically known as Backacter [...]
August 12, 2010 |
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The cutter suction dredge Phoenix has been prepared for Phase 2 of Fremantle Ports’ Inner Harbour and channel deepening, and dredging will begin today, 9 August.
Fremantle Ports Chief Executive Officer, Chris Leatt-Hayter says the deepening is essential to cater for the bigger, more efficient container ships now servicing Australian capital city ports.
“If we didn’t deepen, [...]
August 9, 2010 |
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The port of Itajai in Brazil is once again open to large container vessels after its sudden silting two years ago by flash floods.
The port authority was forced to reduce the size and draught of vessels that could enter the port, which hit the port’s revenue severely, especially at a time when the world’s shipping [...]
August 8, 2010 |
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Naming ceremony for the 6,675kW cutter suction dredger Ganga took place at Kakinada Seaport Private Ltd in Kakinada port in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India,on 30 July.
Mrs Navatha, spouse of Mr KV Rao, Chairman cum Managing Director of Kakinada Seaport private Ltd, acted as godmother of the new dredger.
The stationary cutter dredger was [...]
August 2, 2010 |
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