The expansion of one of the north-east’s busiest ports has been completed – paving the way for scores of jobs and a huge cash windfall for… By Stephen Christie (pressandjournal) [mappress] Source: pressandjournal, October 13, 2010;
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has been awarded a transportation contract by Van Oord Ship Management B.V. The Fairstar semi-submersible vessel FJELL will sail to the Sakhalin peninsula in Russia to load a cargo of split hopper barges, a cutter suction dredger and other related dredging equipm
The Bristol Port Company has appointed specialist maritime engineers to carry out detailed site investigation work for its new £500 million… (logisticsmanager) [mappress] Source: logisticsmanager, October 12, 2010;
Seven months after work was officially “paused” on public facilities in the €300m Greystones Harbour redevelopment project in north Co … (build) [mappress] Source: build, October 12, 2010;
IHC Dredgers has commissioned Siemens Industry Solutions in The Hague, the Netherlands, to provide the electrical installation on board DEME’s cutter suction dredger Ambiorix – under construction at the Hardinxveld-Giessendam yard. Apart from the electrical components, to be delivered to the yard in
Discovery Channel will broadcast Extreme Engineering, Port of Rotterdam for the first time in Denmark (10.30 pm) and Norway (5.10 am). The next day the Netherlands and Belgium (both 8.35pm) will follow. Sweden is scheduled October 15th (2.00am), Finland October 24th (10.30pm) and Germany December 7t
The board of directors of Antwerp Port Authority has approved the long-term financial plan (2011-2025), representing an amount of 1.6 billion euros. With this ambitious investment plan the Port Authority is banking on the future. The ambitious long-term plan was presented to the board of directors b
Secretary of State for business Dr Vince Cable made a visit to the London Gateway superport on Tuesday to give his backing to the project… (thurrockgazette) [mappress] Source: thurrockgazette, October 7, 2010;
Port Babcock Rosyth Ltd held the exhibition in the Elgin Hotel, Charlestown, ahead of it seeking permission to build the international … (thecourier) [mappress] Source: thecourier, October 6, 2010;
The cost of dredging and removing silt from the harbour in Dunmore East will cost €6 million, engineering consultants engaged to investigate… (waterford-news) [mappress] Source: waterford-news, October 6, 2010;
Underwater noise and other forms of energy 1. Identify and review existing data and monitoring methods on underwater noise The work should be based on a review of experiences within MS for different sources and the knowledge within the scientific community in this field. It should be related to the
Piriou Shipyards has delivered a 2.300 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger, fitted out with Damen dredging equipment, to the French sand mining contractor CETRA. The hopper dredger, named “Michel DSR”, will mine sand an gravel off the Brittany coast and transport it throughout the Loire Estuary. The
