Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced £1.7 million funding to help repair small ports and harbors across England damaged by winter storms. Twenty one communities will benefit ranging from Cornwall to East Riding. McLoughlin said: “Our small ports are vital to the livelihoods of the co
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has announced the start of its share buyback program. Within the framework and based on the principles of its business plan for the 2014-2016 period Boskalis intends to execute a buyback program for up to 10 million of its own shares. The program will be executed in t
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. realized a net profit of EUR 253 million in the first half of 2014 (H1 2013: EUR 123 million). Revenue rose 21% in the first half of the year to EUR 1.5 billion (H1 2013: EUR 1.3 billion). Organic revenue growth was 13.4%. EBITDA amounted to EUR 466 million in the [&h
CEDA’s flagship conference and exhibition once again will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in conjunction with the Europort 2015 maritime trade show. Scheduled for 5-6 November 2015 the conference will focus on modern day dredging and marine construction in and around ports. Topics will incl
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has today announced a £10 million package to improve sea links between Scilly and Cornwall and upgrade roads on St Mary’s. The Minister is visiting the islands today. This new funding involves £7.3 million towards the £12.8 million scheme to improve harbor infr
The Teledyne Marine Acoustic Imaging Group, consisting of RESON, BlueView and Odom Hydrographic, will hold the Underwater Technology Seminars (UTS) in Hamburg (September 16-18), Boston (October 7-9) and Singapore (December 1). At the 3-day seminars in Hamburg and Boston the theme is: “Hydrography in
The arrival of the Land & Water Dredging Team at Lodgemore on Monday, August 11, signalled the start of the second phase of canal restoration between Stroud Brewery Bridge and Lodgemore Mills. Land & Water’s Senior Site Manager Chris Spencer has recently completed a busy couple of months in Somerset
APM Terminals Izmir has selected ZPMC as the provider of the most efficient and safest cranes to operate Izmir’s only container terminal capable of serving vessels larger than 10,000 TEU, in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The new terminal – Izmir and Western Turkey’s largest and
Starting September 15, the Training Institute for Dredging (TID) will once more hold its annual General Dredging Course. The elaborate course comprises two weeks of intensive training, focusing on the design and operation of various types of dredging equipment. It covers basic aspects of dredging, i
A multi-million dollar contract was signed at a formal ceremony in Shanghai on July 30, between major UK port operator, Peel Ports, and engineering firm, ZPMC, helping to boost future bilateral trade opportunities between China and the UK. Peel Ports Group is investing over $512 million (£300 millio
The Liebherr HS 8300 HD Hybrid duty cycle crawler crane weighing over 350 tonnes offers a powerful hybrid drive. When designing the new duty cycle crawler crane Liebherr paid special attention to an extended service life of the machine. In the animation you can see this machine in dredging applicati
Recognizing that there are many ways to work with natural processes at the coast, ABPmer has extended their coastal realignment Online Marine Registry (OMReg) to a wider range of practical shoreline adaptation techniques. It now includes shoreline restorations, “unmanaged” realignments and projects
The Rohr division of Rohr-Idreco Dredge Systems has announced the successful start-up of another new Floating Gantry 8m3 Clamshell deep digging dredge in France. This dredge is being used to replace an old 6m3 Rohr Gantry Clamshell dredge, which Rohr has rebuilt and sold to another customer. The new
The first field test of the new real time dredging sonar system called Multi Dredge is commissioned on the Dutch river Vecht, announced CT Systems. The new Multi Dredge system consists of multiple survey-grade transducers strategically placed on a dredging vessel. Each transducer is individually con
