IHC Fundex Equipment BV, part of IHC Merwede, will introduce the world’s largest piling machine on 31 March and 1 April 2011. This event will take place on the company grounds in Goes, The Netherlands, where the machine – commissioned by a Brazilian contractor – was designed and produced. The multip
Coral reefs are large, long-lived bio-geological structures that include all associated marine plants and animals. Although Coral Reefs are robust and have often withstood the forces of storms, climatic change, sea level change and predators, the living elements are just a very thin veneer of delica
Container traffic into Teesport is steadily increasing and figures show it rose 15% just in the last year. An article recently in the Evening Gazette discussed that Port owner PD Ports is keen to build on this momentum with a multi-million pound expansion of Teesport’s container terminal facilities.
Flood defences worth nearly £100,000 for homes in Winnersh will not save properties from future damage, but the “bucket full of money… By Victoria Corbett (getwokingham) [mappress] Source: getwokingham, March 21, 2011
“The Netherlands has always battled against this natural enemy — water,” said Hanneke Heeres of the Union of District Water Boards (UvW)… By Coralie Ramon (physorg) [mappress] Source: physorg, March 21, 2011
After the announcement of moving Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference to Amsterdam RAI, Navingo started to form a Committee of Recommendation for this exhibition & conference focused on offshore energy. For the past three years Offshore Energy took place in Den Helder. Due to the enormous growth
Van Oord has won the second price in the category most innovative company during the award of the annual ICT innovation prizes. The awards are an initiative of ICT Media and CIO Magazine, intended to stimulate innovative projects on the part of both suppliers and customers in the ICT industry. The p
Dredging forms the basis for many important aspects of our civilised World and is indeed vital to social and economic development, particularly to the construction and maintenance of much of the infrastructure upon which our economic prosperity and environmental well-being depend. The world’s popula
This is the first announcement of the next World Dredging Congress. Under the theme of “The Art of Dredging” WODCON XX will take place from 3 to 7 June 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. World Dredging Congresses (WODCONs) are organised once every three years by one of the three sister associations of WODA,
The results of a year-long independent study into the future of Falmouth Docks go on public display for the first time today. (dca-pr) [mappress] Source: dca-pr, March 18, 2011
The largest shipbuilding company in the Baltic States which is a subsidiary of BLRT Grupp entered into the agreement with the Scandinavian company to build the new vessel for dredging of sea bed. The company Vakarų Baltijos laivų statykla signed an agreement with Danish company Rohde Nielsen to buil
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. achieved a record result in 2010, with net profit rising 36% to an all-time high of € 310.5 million… More info: boskalis [mappress] Source: boskalis, March 17, 2011
