Bangalore: A Chinese shipbuilder has taken Dredging Corp. of India Ltd (DCI) and the shipping ministry by surprise by offering to build two dredgers at half the price quoted by a Dutch firm… Source: Livemint, November 9, 2009;
At Europort 2009, HollandMT and FKAB proudly announce their newly developed range of backhoe pontoon dredgers, named the Dredge-X range. The name has been derived from eXcellent eXcavator dredging. At Europort 2009, HollandMT and FKAB proudly announce their newly developed range of backhoe pontoon d
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Seacontractors presented ‘Speed & Stablity’, a new type of multicat… Source: Baird Maritime, November 5, 2009;
Nexans has won a contract worth approximately €39m (£35m) to supply the subsea power-export cables for Phase I of the Belgian Belwind Offshore Windfarm project, located on the Bligh Bank, 46km off the coast of Zeebrugge… Source: The Engineer Online, November 5, 2009;
A SEA captain was today accused of being drunk as he guided a massive dredger up the Tyne ahead of work on the second Tyne Tunnel… Source: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette, November 5, 2009;
Mexican President Felipe Calderón and HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands met this afternoon with Mexican and Dutch businessmen to explore trade and investment opportunities between the two countries… Source: PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA, November 4, 2009
THE £260m second Tyne Tunnel project reached a major milestone today with the arrival of the dredger Vesalius… Source: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette, November 4, 2009;
CRSL has recently published the latest edition of its register Dredgers of the World… Source: Offshore Shipping Online, October 30, 2009;
GIANT metal buckets designed and manufactured in the North East and exported to mining and construction companies worldwide are helping a family business to hold its own in the teeth of the recession… Read more: nebusiness
Why did the decision making process over the dredging of the Westerschelde go so terribly wrong that it has now soured relations between the Netherlands and Belgium? The Dutch parliament would like to know too and has summoned prime minister Balkenende to explain his role… More: NRC
The Belgian government is refusing to pay the Netherlands €300m it had agreed to hand over in compensation for environmental damage caused by deepening the Westerschelde estuary, news agency ANP reports on Monday… More: Dutch News
OFFICIALS have been telling us for months that the Severn Sands, an abandoned dredger near the Fremington Quay tourist spot, was an eyesore and an ecological disaster waiting to happen… More: This is North Devon
