Ana Peric Hadzic, the dean of the Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka, and Wim van de Voorde, member of Royal IHC Engineering Management Board in Croatia, have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement stemmed from a desire to strengthen cooperation between the maritime industry and the Faculty o
Despite continuous uncertainty, Jan De Nul Group said that 2022 fulfilled their expectations. The company achieve strong results: 2022 will also remain earmarked in history as the year of the armed conflict in Ukraine, Jan De Nul said. It was the onset of major global unrest with an immediate, devas
Great news! Tickets for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2023 (OEEC) are now available for purchase! OEEC takes place on 28 & 29 November 2023 in RAI Amsterdam. Benefit from the Early Bird price and buy your ticket here to get a 25 % discount by using the code EARLYBIRD2023. OEEC is a premier
Greece has secured 24 million euros in European Union funding to upgrade its northern Aegean Sea Port of Alexandroupolis, privatisation agency HRADF said. Alexandroupolis, which is close to Bulgaria and Turkey, has been used by U.S. military ships to unload munitions and move them to the eastern fla
Registration is open for the well-known Dredging & Reclamation Seminar in Delft. The next edition of IADC’s 5-day Dredging and Reclamation Seminar will be held from 3-7 July 2023 in Delft (NL). Since 1993, over 1,300 participants from all over the world agree: this seminar on dredging and reclamatio
The first phase of the Europa Terminal’s renewal project is officially underway, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges said today. To facilitate the ongoing construction while continuing to accommodate vessels, a new barge quay has been constructed, providing temporary mooring space for inland navigation. The
DEME has just announced topline metrics for the first quarter ended 31 March 2023 – orderbook reached 7.1 billion euro and the total turnover, led by Offshore Energy, increased 9%. The turnover of the Dredging & Infra segment reflects lower activity levels compared to a strong first quarter last yea
Damen Services has opened its twelfth service hub, located in South-East Asia at Damen Song Cam shipyard in Haiphong, Vietnam. This latest addition to its Service Hub network will enable Damen to provide a dedicated resource from which it can deliver faster and more comprehensive maintenance and oth
If a standard five-storey building was to stand in the middle of the Klaipeda port waters today, it would be completely underwater. The port waters and entrance channel dredging project that began at the Port of Klaipeda in 2020, has now been completed. 15.5 metres – this is now the depth of the Por
Boskalis has just announced that they concluded a busy and good first quarter. Both revenue and earnings increased compared to Q1 2022 and both major divisions – Dredging & Inland Infra and Offshore Energy – contributed to this growth. A lot of new work was secured during the quarter leading to an i
Annual works to reduce the risk of flooding for Lincolnshire’s coastal communities, undertaken by the Environment Agency, are now underway. Over the next 6 to 7 weeks, around 400,000 cubic metres of sand will be topped up on beaches between Saltfleet and Gibraltar Point, reducing the risk of floodin
DEME Group has just announced that Els Verbraecken, the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), will leave DEME in the spring of 2024. Els Verbraecken joined DEME in 2002 and has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the group in 2013. Throughout her time at DEME, as CFO, head of DEME’s Fina
In a UK first, the Environment Agency, BAM, Arup and Tarmac have successfully trialled the use of two low carbon concrete mixes for works at the Hexham Flood Alleviation Scheme. The low-carbon concrete has been used across 3 panels, totalling 27 metres of the £6.5 million Hexham flood defences, as p
Genoa is set to strengthen its role as a strategic hub for the Mediterranean – the laying of the first stone for a new breakwater was celebrated yesterday, marking the start of work on a project unique in the world for its scale, engineering complexity and economic benefit to the city and the countr
