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  • RP suspects pirates attacked Chinese vessel in Spratlys

    4 May 2006

    Pirates were suspected to have been behind an attack on a Chinese vessel near a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea last month, a Philippine military spokesman said Thursday. Four Chinese fishermen were killed and three others wounded in the attack on April 27 near Kalayaan Island in the Spratlys.

  • TMYRC 2007: Transatlantic Maxi Race Starts from Tenerife

    26 November 2007

    Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. 26th November 2007. The seven maxi yachts taking part in the first edition of the Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup set off at 13.05 UTC today, bound for the Caribbean island of St Maarten, just over 3,000 miles (2,600 nautical miles) away across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • WWT tidal vessel starts operating off British Columbia

    14 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    A floating tidal energy plant built by Water Wall Turbine (WWT) has started harnessing the tides off British Columbia, Canada.

  • MCT to Share Its Plans for Brough Ness Tidal Project in Kirkwall, UK

    27 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Siemens’ Marine Current Turbines will be at Kirkwall Town Hall on Thursday (29th November, 3.00pm to 8.00pm) to share its outline plans for its Brough Ness tidal project. MCT is one of a number of tidal and wave energy developers who will be exhibiting at the event. The event, an opportunity for Orcadians to be […]

  • USA: New York to Receive Bigger Ships In Near Future

    20 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye launched a $250 million construction project to boost economic development in New York Harbor. The project involves digging a new water transmission main – called a siphon – between Staten Island and Brooklyn that will allow for the removal of two existing tunnels that […]

  • GLNG Reaches Major Milestones (Australia)

    31 May 2013

    Construction of Santos GLNG’s two-train liquefaction plant and export facility on Curtis Island is proceeding to program with a series of significant milestones recorded this week. On Tuesday, 28 May, the first four of 111 prefabricated steel structures arrived at Curtis Island from Santos GLNG’s module yard in Batangas, Philippines for unloading at the site’s […]

  • USA: Hawaii Undersea Cable to Aid State’s Objectives

    28 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A plan to build a 100-mile undersea cable connecting energy grids on Hawaii’s islands would aid in meeting the state’s ambitious renewable-energy objectives, writes AOL Energy. If it proves that the grids can take more energy from renewable sources than the highest levels currently assumed by the industry that would be a big boost to […]

  • VOR: Oops!

    10 June 2006

    Fifteen hundred long and painstaking miles around Britain and Ireland turns out to be nothing more than a useful indication that Brunel can be competitive in light winds. Their fifth place on Leg 8 has been annulled due to a navigational oversight on the approach to Rotterdam. Thirty miles from the Rotterdam finish Brunel missed […]

  • VIDEO: Saving the East Point Lighthouse

    19 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and N.J. Department of Environmental Protection are working on a plan to save the East Point Lighthouse by building a beach in front of it. According to Maurice River Township Committeewoman Kathy Ireland, the lighthouse is in danger of being washed away whenever a storm hits the Delaware Bayshore. The […]

  • Ocean Rig to continue trading on Nasdaq

    13 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Embattled Greek offshore deepwater driller, Ocean Rig, will continue trading shares on the American stock exchange Nasdaq despite prior delisting warning.  The driller informed on Monday it had received a decision letter from the Nasdaq Hearings Panel granting a conditional exception from the decision of the staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC to delist the […]

  • BC Ferries’ third LNG vessel enters service early

    2 August 2017
    Vessels

    BC Ferries’ third LNG-fueled vessel, the Salish Raven will start its service on the Tsawwassen – Southern Gulf Islands route early, replacing the 53-year old Queen of Nanaimo.

  • Savannah Harbor Expansion Project: GLDD Raises the Bar

    25 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) last week received formal acceptance of its Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) dredging operations which removed over 12 million cubic yards of soil during the deepening of the 20 mile long offshore entrance channel of the Port of Savannah. Under the USACE Savannah District’s contract, GLDD completed the […]

  • Busy Year for Coastal Restoration in Louisiana

    21 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Restore the Mississippi River Delta organization said in their latest announcement that 2017 has been a busy year for coastal restoration in Louisiana. Louisiana’s 2017 Coastal Master Plan passed unanimously and progress was made on several large-scale restoration projects. In their latest post, The Restore the Mississippi River Delta presented a few of the […]

  • Cavache to Dredge Intracoastal Waterway

    9 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Cavache Inc. is about to begin dredge operations in portions of the Intracoastal Waterway near the Port of Palm Beach, Florida. The channel west side of Peanut Island will be dredged. Dredging operations will start on or about October 12th 2015, with the completion set for March 10, 2016. Dredge MAYA CAELYN will be disposing of the material via […]

  • CCCC Dredging Wins Davao Land Reclamation Contract

    27 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    CCCC Dredging, one of the world’s largest players in the dredging industry, has won a contract to build four artificial islands totaling 208 hectares of reclaimed land in the Davao area, the Philippines. The agreement was signed during the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China last week, according to the Beijing Youth Daily. These artificial islands will spread along […]

  • Rotterdam Port Congestion Easing Up

    1 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The congestion which troubled the Rotterdam container sector during the past few months seems to be decreasing, the Port Rotterdam Authority reports. Inland shipping operators report that increasingly more ships are being handled on schedule. According to ECT, the situation is now under control. Sector organisation CBRB with which most barge operators are affiliated, remains […]

  • Netherlands looking at offshore hubs and interconnectors, where does hydrogen stand?

    17 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Energy islands are no longer being considered in the Netherlands. Instead, the focus has been shifted to offshore energy hubs and interconnectors. With rising (cyber)security concerns as a result of a number of recent incidents in European waters, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war, diversification of the energy system is high on the agenda. Offshore […]

  • EPA Proposes New Dredged Material Disposal Site

    28 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday issued a proposal to designate a dredged material disposal site to serve the eastern Long Island Sound region. The Eastern Long Island Sound Disposal Site (ELDS) would be located offshore from New London, Connecticut, and would be available for the disposal of dredged material from harbors and navigation channels […]

  • EU Backs Development of Northern Adriatic Ports

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The EU’s TEN-T Programme will back with almost €3 million studies on a better connection between the northern Adriatic ports and the main rail and inland waterways networks in the region. The studies will focus on improving the hinterland access of the sea ports of Trieste, Venice (Italy), Koper (Slovenia) and Rijeka (Croatia) and the […]

  • Tipner Lake Works to Resume Next Week

    29 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Following the winter break, works on the North Portsea Island Coastal Flood Defense Scheme are due to start again next week, informs the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership (ESCP). Work will be restarting on site for the North Portsea Island project at Tipner from April 1st, said ESCP in its latest update. During the winter period, the construction […]

  • PNW LNG project faces more opposition

    26 January 2016

    First Nations leaders, local residents and federal and provincial politicians joined forces in signing the Lelu Island Declaration tat opposes the development of Petronas-led LNG project near Prince Rupert.

  • CNPC: Construction Starts on HK Branch of Second West-East Gas Pipeline (China)

    5 March 2012

    CNPC said in a  statement that on March 2, pipeline construction of Hong Kong branch of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline commenced offshore Dachan Island near Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The pipe-laying vessel ZHONG YOU HAI 101 laid welded pipelines at the bottom of the sea. Hong Kong branch of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline consists […]

  • Marine Procurement Orders MacGregor’s AHC Subsea Crane

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a contract to deliver a 250-tonne SWL active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea crane for the 120m construction vessel, Island Intervention. The crane was ordered by Marine Procurement Ltd, part of the US company Edison Chouest Offshore. An existing vessel operated by the US/Norwegian partnership between Edison Chouest Offshore and Island […]

  • Clipper 05-06: A Prickly Situation

    16 July 2006

    As the fleet approaches the wonderfully named Porcupine Abyssal Plain to the west and south of Ireland, they are moving in a somewhat confused meteorological situation. As the weather chart (provided by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Centre in the USA) shows the fleet is spread out in the south eastern quadrant of a […]

  • VOR: Silver fleet saga

    9 June 2006

    Finishing at 13:04.47 local time, fourth place for Paul Cayard and the Pirates of the Caribbean crew breaks their consistent run of offshore podiums which began with their third place into Wellington and leaves them with just four and a half points in hand over Brasil 1. While Cayard and his crew made no major […]