Shipkits has announced that it is hard at work on new vessels for Dutch dredging company Boskalis. This new hopper dredger with 4500 m3 hold, is the second from a series of 3 for Boskalis and now under construction at the Shipkits’ yard in Poland. The completion of the finished hull will be done by
Kystverket Nordland has announced a tender for the Torgværleden Harbour development works. Improvement works to Torgværleden Harbour comprises subsea blasting of rock and excavation of blasted rock down to planned level. The blasted rock is expected to be loaded on a barge and transported to a dispo
An additional deep-water facility at Lerwick Harbour has been brought into operation ahead of schedule to support a major subsea project in the North Sea. Work was accelerated on an 80-metre section of the quay under development at Greenhead to make it available for use by Technip, a world leader in
Van Oord’s turnover in 2011 was EUR 1,715 million (2010 EUR 1,578 million) and was evenly attributable to activities performed by Van Oord’s divisions and areas. The net profit for 2011 amounted to EUR 118 million (2010: EUR 165 million, including an extraordinary tax gain of EUR 40 million). CEO Pi
Recently, the port directors Eddy Bruyninckx (Antwerp), Jens Meier (Hamburg) and Hans Smits (Rotterdam) expressed their support in the European Parliament for the further development of a European intermodal transport network. Particularly rail and inland navigation corridors, of which the three por
Terminal Catalunya (TERCAT), a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings Group, took delivery of four Super-Post-Panamax quay cranes at its Muelle Prat terminal in the Port of Barcelona. This is the first batch of a total of eight cranes with the remaining four scheduled for delivery on 18 March 2012. A
Damen Marine Components (DMC) has developed a pioneering nozzle production method bases on a single weld seam on the inner side of the nozzle. This makes the process much more efficient and environmentally friendly. The new Nozzle Spinning Machine can deliver nozzles up to 4.5 m at short notice. Bas
Transport Ministry of Azerbaijan has announced a tender for construction-montage work , goods supply and service provision within construction of new complex of Baku International Sea Trade Port in Alat settlement, 65 km south from Baku. The Ministry reports that cost for tender participation is AZN
PortNews reports that the head of Rostransmodernizatsiya said the authorities of Temryuk municipality have held public hearings on new Taman Port project. Igor Freydin, Director General of “Directorate of the State Customer to Implement the Federal Program “Modernization of Transport System of Russi
The special transport vessel from China with the first four container cranes for the EUROGATE Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven on board docked at the quayside this morning. The “Zhenhua 23” belonging to the Chinese company ZPMC, which departed from Shanghai on 6 January 2012, spent two months at sea
The world renowned survey department of Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) in Holland has just taken receipt of their first integrated Underwater Inspection System (UIS™) from CodaOctopus. Purchased through our agent, Nautikaris BV, RWS have already scheduled a full program of survey and inspection work for thei
On March 15th 2012, HME’s Singapore Branch Office will be officially launched by the Dutch ambassador H.E. Johannes W.G. Jansing at his residence in Singapore. The opening coincides with one of Asia’s most established and proven maritime trade exhibitions Asia Pacific Maritime 2012. HME Singapore to
