Bakker Sliedrecht – specialized in the design, production, installation and maintenance of complex electrical installations – will be taking care of an electrical conversion project on board Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Terranova. The company recently received order for the engi
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Jo-Ellen Darcy, yesterday visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, to tour projects affecting the Lowcountry. Darcy toured the Charleston Harbor where she announced the completion of her review this week of the Chief’s Report for t
The Moray Council’s new £2.4 million dredger is to be named MV Selkie. The name was chosen by members of the council’s economic development and infrastructure committee yesterday. It was selected from a shortlist drawn up from more than 300 suggestions submitted by children from coastal schools in M
CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co. has been awarded a major contract for the construction of container terminal in the Guang’ao zone of the Shantou Port. In late September, CCCC signed this $205 million worth deal with Shantou Port Group for the Phase Two of the 100,000t container terminal in the Guang’ao.
The Environment Agency recently held two final public exhibitions on Shoreham Adur tidal walls scheme. The scheme that will reduce the risk of flooding to Shoreham-by-Sea and Lancing is being developed jointly by Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Adur District Council, West Sussex
CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd., one of China Communications Construction Company subsidiaries, has just signed an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract for the construction of a new berth in Fuzhou Port. The contract was agreed with Fujian Huadian Kemen Power Generation Co. u
Rijkswaterstaat and the OpenIJ consortium – consisting of BAM-PGGM, VolkerWessels and DIF – have reached financial close for the contract to design, construct, finance and maintain a new sea lock at IJmuiden. Construction activities will be carried out by a BAM Infra and VolkerWessels joint venture.
China Communications Construction Co. Ltd. (CCCC), a conglomerate engaged in the design/construction of transportation infrastructure, dredging and heavy machinery manufacturing business, recently won a $17 million contract for the Phase 1 of Runhe terminal in Taicang. The contract for the construct
Seven years had passed since the inauguration of the Panama Canal Expansion Program and the project continues forward at full speed. The countdown for the completion of the expansion is on where every component, every cubic meter of excavated and dredged rock bring this mega-project closer to the la
Van Oord and Atlas Professionals yesterday, October 15th, signed a three year frame agreement for the supply of marine and offshore personnel. 33 years ago, Atlas supplied the first candidate to Van Oord, starting the long-standing relationship between these two companies. Van Oord recently issued a
Exactly one year into the construction of the UK’s first ever offshore wind turbine manufacturing, assembly, installation and service facility, the dredging campaign which will allow deeper-drafted vessels to call at ports along the Humber Estuary has also now provided the foundations for the Siemen
The Government of Nicaragua is continuing to gather info about the Nicaragua Grand Canal Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report. From September 24 to October 1, 2015, the government held a total of nine public consultation meetings for the ESIA report on the Nicaragua Canal. Senior
Bintulu Port, a subsidiary of Bintulu Port Holdings, awarded recently a $5.3 million dredging contract to Integrated Marine Works (IMW). The project calls for maintenance dredging of the Bintulu Port, Sarawak, Malaysia, over a span of four months. In February 2013 Bintulu Port had awarded Integrated
The Australian Government has reached the decision to reissue approval for the biggest new coal mine in Australia — Adani’s 28,000-hectare Carmichael mine in Queensland. The Carmichael coal mine and Rail Project is an open-cut and underground coal mine located approximately 300 kilometers inland in
