Transport & Offshore Services -T.O.S.- is proud to deliver the trailing suction hopper dredger ISANDLWANA for IHC Merwede. The dredger (TSHD) has been built for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), based in South Africa. The delivery of the ISANDLWANA is turnkey with a complete T.O.S. crew and
Further to earlier reports concerning the financial position of the SMIT pension fund, Boskalis announces that the board of the SMIT Pension fund Foundation (Stichting Pensioenfonds SMIT) has informed the Board of Directors of SMIT that it intends to reduce the pension entitlements by 13.2% from 1 J
Laurence Hogg, a member of CanalScape BCN, the Yahoo newsgroup that focuses on the Birmingham Canal Navigations, reports that BW have plans… (waterwaywatch) [mappress] Source: waterwaywatch, October 28, 2010;
In September 2010 a sample of dredge spoil was removed from Premier’s Falmouth marina bed and was later transported to the Imerys site at… (bymnews) [mappress] Source: bymnews, October 27, 2010;
Keppel Verolme BV (KV), a Dutch member of the world’s leading offshore and marine group, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has acquired the three graving docks within its compound from the Port of Rotterdam (PoR) for approximately €10,0 million. One of the docks, spanning 405 metres long and 90 metres w
On Monday 25 October, Philippe Maystadt, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Benoît Lutgen, the Walloon Region’s Minister… [mappress] Source: europa, October 26, 2010;
Saipem has been awarded new offshore contracts worth approximately 700 million euro. In Nigeria, Saipem has been awarded a subcontract for the Critical Crude Pipeline Replacement Project. The awarded scope of work encompasses fabrication, transportation, installation and testing of the replacement o
Sweco has been awarded a major contract in connection with expansion and renovation of the Passenger and Cargo Terminal at the Baltic Sea port of Klaipeda in Lithuania. The contract is worth about EUR 1 million. Every year the Lithuanian coastal city of Klaipeda attracts a growing number of tourists
Campaigners are celebrating after important dredging work was carried out on the River Avon. After years of calling for silt to be scraped… (thisisgloucestershire) [mappress] Source: thisisgloucestershire, October 25, 2010;
Water depths at Portsmouth Commercial Port are to be increased by around two metres from early next year. It is the first time in nearly 20… (porttechnology) [mappress] Source: porttechnology, October 22, 2010;
Joint stock company Ust-Luga and Dredging International signed a memorandum of cooperation in solving technical issues on development of the… (rtdr) [mappress] Source: rtdr, October 21, 2010;
The international dredging group Jan De Nul has just taken on its 500th engineer: Maarten Beckers (23). “It is very special to me that we can engage the 500th engineer in times of crisis,” says Jan Pieter De Nul, CEO of Jan De Nul Group. “There are not many companies in Belgium that employ that [&he
