The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has today launched its Coastal Resources Atlas and Vulnerability Index (‘Coastal Atlas’), a… [mappress] Source: ameinfo, June 16, 2010;
Veecraft Marine has built three different survey vessels in one year time. [mappress] Source: veecraft, June 15, 2010
The 2009 domestic bid market increased significantly to $1.1 billion from $783 million in 2008, primarily as a result of needed maintenance projects.The Corps goal is to reach 95% U.S. port operating capacity by 2013. Heightens the need to maintain and deepen U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports,Jacksonvi
A $4 million NOAA grant will help a university consortium evaluate the readiness of marine forecasts, such as flooding from storm surge or… [mappress] Source: noaanews, June 14, 2010
On June 11th, 2010, twenty three months after placing the order, the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Charles Darwin’ was launched at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao (Spain). The godmother of the ship was Charlotte Putz-De Nul, daughter of Mrs Ghislaine De Nul, sister of Jan
The environmental disasters this spring seem to know no end. Most recently, the United States is facing the largest oceanic catastrophe ever, as BP’s Deepwater Horizon continues to discharge thousands of gallons of oil into pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to suffocate marine life
This is the latest in the IADC series of concise, easy-to-read “management summaries”, which give overviews of essential information on specific dredging and maritime construction subjects. Facts About Environmental Monitoring explains why monitoring is necessary before, during and after most mariti
Arlington, Texas – Trent Lewis with Pond Medics, Inc. completed a bathymetric survey in conjunction with a golf course management company… [mappress] Source: themappingnetwork, June 10, 2010;
Italian based civil contractor SOMIT s.r.l. has awarded a contract to HollandMT and FKAB for the engineering of a Dredge-X150SP. This is a self-propelled pontoon suitable for a Liebherr 984 excavator able to dredge on -18m water depths. The hull is designed according to Bureau Veritas rules as a hea
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 62.4 percent of the shareholders have elected a stock dividend distributed in the… [mappress] Source: Boskalis, June 9, 2010
A $40 million project deepening the Port of Long Beach Main Channel to allow safer transit for the largest ships including oil tankers was… [mappress] Source: Port of Long Beach, June 9, 2010
Danish company, RESON A/S, world-leading manufacturer of high quality underwater acoustic sensors, echo-sounders, multi-beam sonar systems, transducers & hydrophones, will be participating at the Western Dredging Association, Annual Dredging Seminar – WEDA30 & TAMU41. “Dredging Works for the Economy
More than half of the world’s population lives within 60 km of a coastline zone. [mappress] Source: wirelessfibre, June 9, 2010
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced today that Dredging International N.V. has been awarded the contract to dredge an area of the… [mappress] Source: marinelog, June 8, 2010;
