On Tuesday at the Delft Software Days 2013, ARCADIS became the first consultancy to be recognised by Deltares as a Certified Delft3D Modelling Centre. The certificate was handed out to Rob Steijn, the head of the Coast and Sea Consultancy Group. Certification means that Deltares decides on the basis
Jan De Nul: New Parallel Runway for Brisbane Airport (Australia) On Thursday, 10 October 2013 the Brisbane Airport Corporation announced the construction of the 300 ha platform for their new parallel runway. UK: New Medmerry Sea Defence Scheme Unveiled The Environment Agency is celebrating an impo
At the fourth National Delta Congress, the prestigious American Franz Edelman Award was handed out to the Dutch consortium who won the award in April 2013 in Texas for the project ‘Economically Efficient Flood Standards to Protect the Netherlands against Flooding’. In the presence of Minister Schult
Luka Koper received this week from the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning the building permits for the construction and filling of the landfills 7A and 799/29. The landfills will serve for the disposal of the excavated material in the dredging of Port Basin I along the quayside aimed at co
Stork Technical Services, the global provider of Asset Management Services in the Oil fit Gas, Chemical and Power industries, is attending the world’s leading maritime event, EUROPORT 2013. Over 30,000 maritime professionals from more than 90 countries are present at this event in World Port Rotterd
The Port of Wells main channel dredging program has officially commenced this week. The port’s dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel north of number 4 buoy, between buoys 4 and 2. All material dredged from these areas will be placed on the berm which is marke
Ports, shipping and logistics development across India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will form a key topic of debate at the upcoming TOC Container Supply Chain Middle East conference, taking place on 9-11 December at the Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE. India’s economy is at the threshold of a “golden age o
The port of Antwerp is co-sponsor of the “8th European Conference & Exhibition on Inland Terminals” being held in Liège on 21 and 22 November. In the past Antwerp has also hosted the conference. This year the focus is on the way in which seaports and hinterland ports interact in their strategies for
Global marine terminal operator DP World and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), today signed an agreement that will see DP World provide management advisory services for the development of the Khorgos Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Inland Container Depot (ICD). DP World will also provide similar service
The Nibulon company (Nikolayev), one of the largest grain traders in Ukraine, has recently presented its project for dredging the Southern Bug River. The presentation took place on the premises of the Nikolayev Regional Administration at the beginning of September with the participation of the heads
After several years as designer within the dredging industry, where they have created both pure split hopper barges, trailer suction dredgers with bottom doors as well as split type, FKAB Marin Design has recently improved the split barges design both in building price as well as operation wise. “Th
The creation of a shallow wetland for wildfowl is the purpose behind the application by the Port of Gothenburg that is due to be submitted shortly to the Land and Environment Court. The wetland is a way of reinstating an area that has been used to deposit dredging spoils for almost 40 years. Ever si
On 23 October, 2013 General Director Andrey Tarasenko made a working visit to the FSUE “Rosmorport” Makhachkala Branch. During the trip he visited Makhachkala Seaport, its dry bulk and bulk-oil areas, ship repairing plant and VTS. A. Tarasenko met the branch’s management and employees and discussed
The 8th International SedNet Conference is scheduled for 6-9 November 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal. The program consists of key-note presentations and parallel lecture sessions on: • Sediments and ecosystems (and their services); • Integrated sediment management; • Sustainable dredged material manageme
