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  • Sir Richard Branson Calls for More Renewables

    23 May 2014

    Media and airline businessman Sir Richard Branson is calling on Scottish entrepreneurs to challenge what he describes as ‘the climate change sceptics’ with the facts about the changing environment. Sir Richard was speaking to delegates attending the 14th All Energy Conference and Exhibition in Aberdeen. Speaking live from his Caribbean island to Highlands and Islands […]

  • Indian River Lagoon Dredging Project OK’d

    9 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board has voted to begin the first phase of a massive dredging project that will improve water quality, navigation and the economy in and around the central Indian River Lagoon. The Board approved an agreement with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to receive $10 million […]

  • PHOTO: USACE’s Dredger Currituck at Work

    29 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released a photo of their dredger Currituck taking a load of sand dredged from Ocean City Inlet to be deposited in the surf zone off of Assateague Island, on December 22, 2016. The dredger, based out of the Corps’ Wilmington District in North Carolina, is carrying out […]

  • Oceaneering Continues with Ocean Intervention III

    1 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oceaneering has extended the charter period for MV Ocean Intervention III vessel for one year, Island Offshore informs. According to Island Offshore, options for further extensions are included in the contract. Ocean Intervention III is performing subsea IMR work in Angola, and has been in service for Oceaneering since 2007. “We are very pleased with this […]

  • Irish Dockers Call for Safer Work Practice at Ports

    19 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    The move comes on the back of a recent fatal incident on the Irish docks.

  • Image of the Day: Carnival Triumph Makes Maiden Call at Dominica

    23 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The island nation of Dominica welcomed Carnival Triumph, owned and operated by Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL), last week as it made its inaugural call, arriving at the Roseau Cruise Ship Berth. With a passenger capacity of 2,754 and crew size of 1,100, Carnival Triumph sailed to the “Nature Island” from Grenada. This is the Triumph’s […]

  • Port of Hueneme Dredging Kicks Off

    15 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley and local officials celebrated the beginning of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging of Channel Islands Harbor, which will provide sand to replenish Hueneme Beach. “Since coming to Congress, I have worked tirelessly to advocate for the funding necessary to dredge Channel Islands Harbor, which provides desperately needed sand to […]

  • Construction Advancing on US First OW Workboat

    12 August 2015

    Atlantic Wind Transfers, the commercial wind support services arm of Rhode Island Fast Ferry, today joins local boat builder Blount Boats and offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind for an official Ribbon Cutting ceremony and to tour the first offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel in the US currently under construction. The event at the Blount […]

  • Yakima River Scheme Open for Comment

    20 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    A program to manage about six miles of Yakima River shoreline within the city of West Richland is open for comment through the Washington Department of Ecology. The proposed shoreline program will guide development projects along West Richland’s shoreline. It combines local plans for future development and preservation with new development ordinances and related permitting requirements. […]

  • Delegation Calls on Corps to Adopt DMMP

    3 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Connecticut delegation sent a letter yesterday to Lieutenant General Tom Bostick, Commanding General and Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in support of the recently-released Draft Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) and Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Long Island Sound. “As representatives from Connecticut, a state with 332 miles of coastline, […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes New Joint UK and Scottish Government Report

    17 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    RenewableUK has welcomed a new report from the UK and Scottish Governments on the potential contribution from the Scottish Islands to the UK’s 2020 renewable energy targets. The report also recognised the problems inherent in deploying renewables on the Islands due to higher grid connection costs. David Krohn, RenewableUK’s Wave and Tidal development manager said: […]

  • RenewableUK Applauds Joint UK and Scottish Government Report

    16 May 2013

    RenewableUK has welcomed a new report from the UK and Scottish Governments on the potential contribution from the Scottish Islands to the UK’s 2020 renewable energy targets. The report also recognised the problems inherent in deploying renewables on the Islands due to higher grid connection costs. David Krohn, RenewableUK’s Wave and Tidal development manager said: […]

  • VIDEO: Opureora Channel Dredging Update

    25 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has just released the latest video update on their Opureora Channel Dredging Project. For many years, the Opureora Channel has been used as a primary accessway for boat traffic between Matakana Island and the mainland at Omokoroa. It provides a critical lifeline for island residents that need to access emergency services, […]

  • GEO Completes Geophysical Survey for Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Sea Cable (Denmark)

    6 June 2011
    Storage

      GEO has just completed a geophysical survey for the sea cable connecting the island of Anholt with the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. In continuation Energinet.dk has asked to carry out a Vibrocore and CPT campaign along the cable route and a CPT campaign along a cable route in the Little Belt. Anholt Offshore Wind […]

  • Spotted: Ulstein Launches Its Largest Offshore Vessel Yet

    26 August 2015
    Business & Finance

      On Tuesday night, August 25th, yard number 302 Island Venture, an offshore construction vessel for Island Offshore/Edison Chouest Offshore, was launched from the dock hall at Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft. Currently, the heli deck is being mounted. Measuring close to 160 m in length, and with at beam of 30 m, she is the […]

  • South Africa: Durban Port on Right Track

    30 November 2012

    Although Transnet’s New Multi-Product Pipeline (NMPP) has faced some challenges in its early stages, the project will be a uniquely Sth African infrastructure investment for years to come, says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba. Gigaba on Thursday marked the last stage of phase 1 in the development of the NMPP project – the construction of […]

  • Spain: Minorcan Project Under Fire

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Oceana has made a formal complaint to UNESCO today, against a project that aims to dump waste materials from the dredging of Maó harbour into a Biosphere Reserve off the island of Minorca. The material displays high levels of mercury as well as lead and copper, and so Oceana believes that the project should be […]

  • Photo Update: Harper’s Slough Restoration

    30 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge has just posted on its facebook page the latest photos from the Harper’s Slough restoration project. The Harper’s Slough Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project was planned and designed under the authority of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program. A single construction contract was awarded in September 2014 […]

  • State support to Danish ferry newbuildings

    28 September 2009

    The Danish Ministry for Interior and Social Affairs will give a DKK 210 million support to eight island ferry services, spread over the country. The island ferry services are mainly owned by the municipalities, however, the government guarantees parts of the funds needed for building new ferries.

  • New Zealand: Otago Harbour Dredging Plan Gets Green Light

    12 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Environment Court Judge Jeff Smith has granted Port Otago’s application to deepen its Otago Harbour channel in anticipation of the arrival of bigger container ships on the New Zealand coast. The company had originally sought consent from the Otago Regional Council for resource consent to: • Deepen, widen, and maintain the lower harbour channel; the […]

  • Denmark could build its first and world’s largest floating wind farm; Project considers Power-to-X capabilities

    23 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has confirmed to our sibling news site offshoreWIND.biz that it had submitted an application for a gigawatt-scale floating wind farm near the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The project, which could also include Power-to-X (green hydrogen) capabilities, would be Denmark’s first and the world’s largest wind farm of this kind if approved to be built by 2027.

  • P&O Ferries Breaks Its Freight Volume Record on the English Channel

    12 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Pan-European ferry operator P&O Ferries carried more freight between Dover and Calais in 2015 than in any previous year in its modern history. The ferry company’s six ships on the English Channel transported 1.3 million units of freight during the 12 month period – a 22 per cent year-on-year increase, the company said. Both the third and […]

  • Yavin Four Consultants goes on recruitment drive across Europe

    3 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    Engineering consultancy for offshore renewable energy Yavin Four Consultants (Y4) has set out on a recruitment spree seeking fresh talent in Portugal, Italy and Ireland.

  • Total hires DNV GL for services on UK North Sea assets

    22 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    DNV GL has been awarded a three-year contract by Total to provide multiple services across the full portfolio of the operator’s assets in the UK North Sea.

  • Dublin ABR Project Step Closer

    23 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Jonathan Taylor, and Dublin Port Company representatives discussed the finalization of financing arrangements for Dublin Port’s Alexandra Basin Redevelopment (ABR) Project yesterday. The EIB has committed to providing a €100m loan amortizing over 20 years, reflecting the long-term nature of the ABR Project. This scheme, the […]