Following an Adjournment Debate at the House of Commons on off-shore dredging, led by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart, a government minister has answered a series of questions… Source: Graham Stuart, December 18, 2009;
Lean times lie ahead for companies on the hunt for maintenance dredging work, with the real effect of the economic downturn not hitting their balance sheets until next year and beyond… Source: Port Strategy, December 18, 2009;
Engineering consultancy DHV has won the contract to improve the navigability on 250 kilometers of the Mekong river in Vietnam… Source: New Civil Engineer, December 16, 2009
Two UK scientists and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded euros5m to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments. Laurence Hopkinson and Kevin Stone from the University of Brighton’s School of Environment and Technology… Source: Maritime Global Net, December 14, 2009;
DREDGING work on the second Tyne Tunnel is set to be finished this week… Source: The Shields Gazette, December 14, 2009;
Construction has begun of a new ‘heavy lift’ inland port costing about €32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the North Sea… Source: Maritime Journal, December 9, 2009
AMSTERDAM – A majority of shareholders in Royal Boskalis Westminster NV Monday gave the green light for a share issue, which the Dutch dredging company will use to partly finance the takeover of Smit Internationale NV… Source: Morning Star, December 7, 2009
ABP Marine Environmental Research has been awarded a contract to assess the performance of proposed breakwaters in the vicinity of Marsaxlokk, in line with the wish of the Ministry of Resources and Rural Affairs to create additional… Source: Times of Malta, December 4, 2009;
DP World Project on Target in Rotterdam Dubai World’s financial problems will not affect the construction timetable of Europe’s biggest container terminal in which its subsidiary DP World is the largest investor, the port of Rotterdam said Dec. 4… The Journal of Commerce, December 4, 2009
AMSTERDAM -Netherlands-based dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster is expected to spice up its EUR1.35 billion all-cash bid for maritime services provider Smit Internationale, as it looks to diversify into other businesses… Source: The Wallstreet Journal, December 4, 2009
AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)–Dutch maritime services company Smit Internationale NV (SMIT.AE) said Friday it expects the due diligence by dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (BOKA.AE) to be finished by the end of this year… Source: Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2009;
In September 2009, the suction dredger Gateway was launched at the IHC Merwerde Offshore and Marine Shipyard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam. The dredger, completed for Royal Boskalis Westminster N.v., has been fitted out with Vulkan couplings… Source: Synfo, December 03, 2009
