Global Marine Systems announced the addition of a ForumTM XT 600 Trenching System to its subsea cable fleet. The XT600 is a purpose-built system that allows Global Marine to significantly enhance performance across the full range of demanding subsea cable maintenance, trenching and survey activities. The equipment is the latest evolution to the highly successful [...]
In 2012, the impressive investing course DEME has followed during the last decade reached a climax with the naming ceremony of the cutter suction dredger “Amazone” in Singapore. In this video: The naming ceremonies of the trailing suction hopper dredgers “Congo River” (2011) and “Victor Horta” (2011), the cutter suction dredgers “Ambiorix” (2012) and “Amazone” [...]
A trailer suction hopper dredger – Dredge 19 – will be inducted into the fleet of the city-based public sector Dredging Corporation of India, tomorrow, reports thehindu. DCI DREDGE XIX is the first vessel from a series of three which also includes the DCI DREDGE XX and DCI DREDGE XXI. IHC Merwede has previously delivered [...]
Seatronics have recently purchased four RESON SeaBat 7125-ROV2′s, six ROV2 upgrades with G5 processors and two SeaBat 7101’s. This order emphasizes Seatronics’ position as the world’s largest rental supplier of 7125-ROV2 solutions with the world’s largest fleet of SeaBat solutions. Seatronics now own 28 ROV2 systems, 10 of which have a G5 processor prepared for [...]
Multraship continues to invest in its diverse fleet of towage and salvage vessels to help provide the highest levels of responsive service to the international shipping industry. Multraship has just taken delivery of Multrasalvor 3, a new Multi-Cat 2409 from Damen. It is a bigger and better version of our old Multrasalvor, which has now [...]
November 9, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the News,
Company News,
Equipment & Technology,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News,
News by Topic,
News Categories,
Press releases,
Regional News,
Vessels |
Read More »
![India: DCI to Expand Its Fleet with Three New Dredgers]()
According to Chairman and Managing Director D.K Mohanty, Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) will soon expand its fleet with three new dredgers. Thehindubusinessline.com reports that during the next two years, three trailer suction hopper dredgers will join the DCI’s dredging fleet. Mr. Mohanty stated: “We will get a new TSHD in December and another one [...]
During the last financial year, aging dredgers have dragged the performance of Dredging Corporation of India (DCI). DCI announces significant erosion in net profit to Rs 13 crore for the year ended March 31 against Rs 40 crore in the previous year, according to thehindubusinessline.com. Of the 10 trailer suction dredgers that DCI owns, seven [...]
Damen Shipyards Group will be supplying Acta Marine with four Shoalbuster anchor handling tugs. Three of the anchor handling tugs will be supplied from Damen Marine Services’ charter fleet, while Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld will be supplying the fourth, a new Shoalbuster, in March 2013. “Shoalbusters are excellent multi-purpose vessels that we will be able to [...]
Abeko Marine received new requests for dredging and land reclamation projects, for which the company had to expand the fleet on the short term with a new Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger. Suitable second hand dredgers were not available which made the company decide for the conversion of the MV ‘Sirocco’, a general cargo vessel built [...]
June 8, 2012 | Posted in
Equipment & Technology,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
Headlines,
News,
News by Topic,
News Categories,
Press releases,
Regional News,
Vessels |
Read More »
According to the Hindu Business Line, a Parliamentary Standing Committee has pointed out in its latest report that DCI has not been able to procure any new dredging machinery in the last nine years. As against the targets of 672 million cubic metres (MCMs) in capital dredging and 430 MCMs in maintenance dredging during the [...]
