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  • New oil & gas discovery in North Sea with tie-back on the horizon

    9 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has made a new commercial oil and gas discovery in the North Sea off Norway, using a Transocean-owned rig.

  • Creating More Flood Resilient Nation

    24 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Environment Agency Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management John Curtin recently explained how engineers and the environment are fighting together for a more flood resilient nation. Mr Curtin began by saying that in January, the Prime Minister launched the Government’s new national 25 year environment plan, “quite a moment for those of […]

  • Coatings for scrubbers as important as good quality material of scrubber components

    1 July 2020
    Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    Corrosion has emerged as the arch-enemy of the exhaust gas cleaning systems as the uptake of the technology rose with the entrance into force of the IMO 2020 sulphur cap. Like with any new technology, scrubber maintenance and operation has been a learning curve for ship owners and operators, especially in the context of preventing […]

  • Digitalization: the good, the bad and the ugly

    7 October 2020
    Automation, IT & Software, Technology, Transition

    When I was just starting my career in the maritime news reporting business, I remember being approached by a reputable editor of a printed magazine in his late 60s at a major trade fair in Hamburg, who asked which publication I worked for. When I answered it was a digital publication, he dismissed the idea […]

  • Steel cut for Maersk’s 16,200 TEU methanol-fuelled boxship

    28 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Container shipping major Maersk has launched the construction of its 16,200 TEU dual-fuel containerships that can run on green methanol. Namely, South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries hosted a steel-cutting ceremony for what is believed to be the first vessel from the series on November 28, 2022, based on a social media update from Maersk. […]

  • EPA Supports Wisconsin’s Coastal Wetland Projects

    28 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $550,303 to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to protect high quality coastal wetlands, to acquire land in a State Natural Area, and to control invasive species in coastal wetlands. Work will focus on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. “This grant will assist the efforts of local partners to […]

  • Tuas Port opens with 3 berths as it progresses to become world’s largest fully automated port

    2 September 2022
    Automation, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Port group PSA Corporation Ltd (PSA) officially inaugurated Tuas Port in Singapore, on Thursday, 1 September, with the first three berths operational at Phase One of the development. The terminal is progressively developed in four phases. When fully operational in the 2040s, it is expected to be the world’s largest fully automated container terminal in […]

  • The Netherlands: IHC Merwede Secures New Orders Worth Half-a-Billion Euros Once Again

    24 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede announced that it has recently secured assignments for vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of €500 million. This further reinforces the group’s belief that there will be continued demand for its innovative vessels, advanced equipment and life-cycle support. The latest projects agreed and confirmed by IHC […]

  • DEME: Solid Order Book

    23 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    Since the beginning of 2014, DEME managed to  maintain its order book at a fairly high level of about 3.0 billion EUR thanks to new orders, well spread worldwide across dredging, energy related and environmental activities. The total value  of these new orders represents approximately 660 million EUR. Dredging and port construction In Porto Sudeste, Brasil, […]

  • Two Important New Offshore Windfarm Contracts Signed by Nordsee – GeoSea (both DEME Group) in German Waters

    31 August 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the […]

  • Is the EU on the cusp of grabbing methane by the horns or will it let these emissions slip through the cracks?

    25 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The EU is preparing to cast its vote on the first methane emissions regulation, which could help lower methane in the oil and gas sector.

  • Construction starts on world’s 1st zero-emission fast ferry

    10 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    The construction has commenced on the world’s first fully electric passenger fast ferry at the Fjellstrand shipyard in Norway, partners in the EU-funded TrAM project said.

  • The Netherlands: CEDA Committee Selects Abstracts for Dredging and Beyond Conference

    4 April 2011

    The CEDA Dredging Days Papers Committee selected the following abstracts for the conference. The listing below also indicated the tentative setup of the technical sessions. The final programme will be designed after the completion of the peer review of the full manuscripts and the definitee acceptance of the papers. SESSION 1: Building with nature: from […]

  • Proposed General Permit Process Up for Comment

    27 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is seeking comments on proposed statewide general permit for maintenance dredging. Maintenance dredging of navigable waterways would undergo a quicker, less expensive review as part of the proposed permit process now up for public comment through June 29, 2015. Heidi Kennedy, statewide waterway and wetland policy coordinator, said that the […]

  • Transocean strikes multiple rig deals with total backlog of $1.9 billion

    10 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has secured new contracts and extensions in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Suriname and Brazil for nine rigs in its offshore fleet.

  • First Milestone Reached in Construction of Panama Canal New Locks

    20 October 2011
    Business & Finance

      On 19 October 2011, a first milestone in the construction of the new locks in the Panama Canal was reached. At 9.40 am, the Administración del Canal de Panama (ACP) flooded the first section of the newly excavated lock lanes on the Pacific Side. The excavation works close to the Centenario Bridge are executed […]

  • Oman: Port of Salalah Showcases Growth Potential

    9 May 2012

    Port of Salalah has welcomed executives and representatives from the shipping world’s largest shipping lines and principal customers in the local market to the handling of its 30 millionth TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit) container recently. The distinguishing aspects of Port of Salalah, the second largest port in the region, including its direct connections to […]

  • Belgium: Ackermans & van Haaren Announces 2011 Results

    2 March 2012

    The Board of Directors of Ackermans & van Haaren NV announces that the consolidated net result (group share) increased by 10% to € 177.5 mio (compared to € 160.8 mio in 2010). The strong performance of both Delen Private Bank and Bank J.Van Breda & Co provided a record contribution to the group’s result from […]

  • The Poseidon Principles: Can they accelerate the transition to greener vessels?

    22 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Transition

    Shipping is a capital-intensive industry. However, over the past few years, the availability of capital within the sector has shrunk considerably as western banks cut their exposure to the market after struggling with bad shipping loans. Too many regulations, especially those targeting environmental issues and climate change, have made shipping finance rather complex and unattractive […]

  • Dredging Today Conference: “Sustainability Equals Business”

    27 September 2017

    If there is one message that the speakers at the first Dredging Today Conference in Amsterdam on 9 & 10 October will bring across, it is that sustainability can bring business and that climate change holds incredible opportunities for the dredging and marine industry. Femke Perlot-Hoogeveen, Conference Manager, is getting excited. “All the preparatory talks […]

  • Day of the Seafarer 2020: It’s time for the EU to resolve crew change crisis

    25 June 2020
    Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    On the Day of the Seafarer 2020, European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) are calling upon EU institutions and member states to start acting to resolve the current crew change crisis.

  • Interview with Tiedo Vellinga, Professor Emeritus of Ports and Waterways

    27 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    After seven years serving as a professor at Delft University of Technology, Mr. Tiedo Vellinga recently assumed the new title of Professor Emeritus of Ports and Waterways. During his concurrent career at the Port of Rotterdam Authority, he practiced what he preached, constantly challenging the status quo in port development. The result was an innovative […]

  • Deep dive: What’s in store for Valaris rigs?

    13 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    An in-depth review of Valaris’ rigs, including details about new contracts and extensions along with other recent activities related to its fleet.

  • C-Power EUR 1.289 M Investment Financing for the Construction and Operation of a 325 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    26 November 2010

    C-Power is pleased to announce that it has closed the financing of the second and third phases of the offshore wind farm on the Thornton Bank (located about 30 km in the North Sea off the Belgian coast). A group of 7 commercial lenders: KBC, Rabobank, Société Générale, KfW Ipex-Bank, Commerzbank, Dexia and ASN Bank […]

  • Smart Decision-Making and Collaborative Alignment

    20 August 2020
    Automation, IT & Software, Ports & Logistics

    Written by Mikael Lind, RISE, Hanane Becha, UN/CEFACT, André Simha, MSC, Francois Bottin, CMA CGM, and Steen Erik Larsen, A.P. Moller – Maersk How often do we experience that decisions are being made on the basis of static information? Picture a printed document listing expected arrival and departure times for the ships visiting a port […]