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  • Deep Seabed Mining Raises Concerns in Pacific Region

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      A coalition of Pacific Civil Society organizations has called for a slow down in authorization of deep seabed mining in the Pacific Region. Procedures taken by numerous governments to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining exploration as a development opportunity caused concerns among organizations. The organizations say that Papua New Guinea has been providing […]

  • Sea Shepherd Seeks EU Action against Denmark’s Whale Killing

    11 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd Netherlands has submitted a request to the European Commission to launch infringement proceedings against Denmark for facilitating the slaughter of pilot whales and other cetaceans in the Faroe Islands. The request was submitted “with the formal support of 27 Members of the European Parliament”, according to Sea Shepherd. The organization […]

  • Redland City’s Marine Infrastructure Projects Involve Dredging (Australia)

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Redland City’s reputation as a city of islands will be enhanced, thanks to almost $14 million of marine infrastructure projects in the 2014-15 Budget. Redland City Mayor Karen Williams said the funding would include new jetties and boat ramp upgrades. “Redland City has a large coastal population including about 10,000 residents who live on islands, […]

  • Gasparilla Shore Protection Deal for Weeks Marine

    24 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded a $6.4 million contract on April 23 to Weeks Marine of Cranford, NJ., aimed to reduce risks to landside infrastructure on Gasparilla Island in Lee County. The Gaparilla Island segment of the Lee County Shore Protection Project is 100% federally funded by the Flood Control and […]

  • Deepwater Wind to Propose Offshore Wind Farm to NYPA (USA)

    16 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater Wind hailed yesterday’s announcement by the New York Power Authority​ (NYPA) to jumpstart the process for developing a large offshore wind farm to serve downstate New York. NYPA has filed an application with the United States Department of the Interior​ to lease an offshore site at least 13 miles south of New York City […]

  • AI-enhanced newbuild rig trio enlarging UAE giant’s drilling fleet thanks to $733 million oil field gig

    4 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ADNOC Drilling has tucked a new multimillion-dollar assignment under its belt with ADNOC Offshore for drilling work at a huge oil field.

  • Ecosystem-approach to fisheries management takes center stage

    25 April 2005

    World-renowned scientists gathered last week to identify the science requirements to support ecosystem-based approaches to marine resource management in the U.S. Pacific Islands. The workshop, held from April 18 to 22 in Honolulu, gathered together several great talents in one room, according to director Sam Pooley of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, who chaired […]

  • Dredging around St. Maarten’s new mega cruise pier

    17 November 2009
    Project & Tenders

    The area around the pier is dredged to make it deep enough for the 220,000-tonne cruise ships it has been designed to berth. Sand will be stored on the land next to Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise and Cargo Facilities until it is trucked to Pond Island or funnelled via a pipeline to Great Salt Pond […]

  • Northern container terminals stand up to crisis

    10 July 2009

    This year, the two northern inland terminals of Groningen and Meppel expect to equal the 2008 throughput of some 50,000 containers (approx. 80,000 TEU). Both terminals are connected to Rotterdam by two inland vessels of 156 TEU, calling four times a week. Some 45 trucks are taking care of the transport of approx. 27,000 boxes […]

  • UWT to Get New Quay on Bunschotenweg (The Netherlands)

    26 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    United Waalhaven Terminals (UWT) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement on the construction of a new quay on Bunschotenweg. The quay will be dug on the Johan Friso Haven and will be able to accommodate short sea vessels as well as inland vessels with a draught of 7 metres and a length […]

  • SeaLink Adds 33 Vessels through Transit Systems Buy

    9 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Australian transport and tourism company SeaLink Travel Group has completed the acquisition of Transit Systems Marine, the marine-transport division of Transit Systems, for AUD 125 million. Transit Systems Marine business includes passenger and vehicular ferry services in south-east Queensland and in Gladstone. The purchase price includes vessels, land, plant equipment, all contracts, licences, intellectual property and goodwill. […]

  • World’s first multi-megawatt wind and wave energy hybrid secures test site

    26 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has signed an agreement with the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) to test its 5MW hybrid floating wind and wave energy platform off the coast of Gran Canaria.

  • First Gas Reaches QCLNG Terminal

    16 December 2013

    BG Group announced it had successfully reached a key milestone in the development of the Queensland Curtis LNG project, with first gas transported from the Surat Basin coal seam gas fields onto Curtis Island where the liquefaction terminal is located. Delivery of first gas onto the island marks the successful completion of a two-year task […]

  • Nags Head Beach Nourishment Continues

    12 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Due to a leak in the submerged pipe through which sand is pumped from offshore onto the beach, nourishment operations south of Outer Banks Pier, near Mile Posts 18.5-19, have stopped, reports the Town of Nags Head, NC. As a result, the Dredge Ellis Island, which was working off that submerged line, is now operating […]

  • Cardin, Van Hollen: $23.6M for Baltimore Harbor and Channels Dredging

    27 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen have praised Senate passage of the Fiscal Year 2019 Energy and Water, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill. As part of this legislation, the Senators worked to secure critical funding for several port maintenance projects in Maryland – including the Port of Baltimore, […]

  • UK Marine Energy Conference closes in

    21 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    In two weeks’ time, the UK Marine Energy Conference will bring together those at the forefront of wave and tidal technology within the UK and Ireland to Glasgow.

  • Tritec Marine tweaks OE Buoy design

    16 February 2018
    Research & Development, Technology

    Scotland-based Tritec Marine had carried out an engineering analysis of Ocean Energy’s OE Buoy that will be deployed off Hawaii later this year, with the design of the wave energy device now optimizied for the deployment and operation.

  • Russia detains 2 foreign trawlers over illegal fishing

    26 March 2010

    The Russian Coast Guard said on Friday it had detained two Cambodian-flagged fishing vessels near the island of Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East on suspicion of poaching fish and crab. The first vessel, the Jae Su, was spotted by a patrol boat in the Russian exclusive economic zone off the southern coast of the island […]

  • Bollinger Shipyards Hands Over FRC Richard Etheridge to US Coast Guard

    5 June 2012

    The Richard Etheridge, the second vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter (FRC) recapitalization project that was built by Bollinger Shipyards, was officially delivered to the Coast Guard May 26 in Key West, Fla. after transiting from Lockport, La. Richard Etheridge will be homeported alongside the lead FRC, Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. […]

  • Congresswoman Brownley Announces $14.8 Million for Ventura County

    5 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    California Congresswoman Julia Brownley yesterday announced $14.8 million in federal funding for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects in Ventura County at Channel Islands Harbor, Ventura Harbor, and the Port of Hueneme, set to strengthen local infrastructure. “Ventura Harbor, Channel Islands Harbor, and the Port of Hueneme are essential drivers of our local economy, and […]

  • SPC to evaluate LPG and LNG as alternative energy sources for the Pacific

    12 September 2014

    There is a growing global trend towards using cleaner and cheaper fuel. The Pacific region has always faced difficulties with this type of change, due to its huge dependence on imported expensive fossil fuels for transportation, power generation, shipping and cooking. In many countries, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) are being […]

  • HMS Queen Elizabeth’s Second Giant Piece Rolled Out

    13 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Another giant piece of the jigsaw that is the Navy’s future carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is finished with her aft island rolled out of the construction shed. The second of two islands on the 65,000-tonne leviathan, the aft one will control flight deck operations by her F35 jets, Merlin helicopters and other aircraft. From this […]

  • Croatian FSRU’s regas overhaul completed at Turkish shipyard

    15 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    The floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) serving Croatia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the island of Krk has been upgraded in Türkiye.

  • Irish Marine Minister urges vessel owners to avail of scheme

    3 August 2006

    IRISH Marine Minister John Browne T.D., speaking yesterday at Greencastle Harbour in Donegal, called on vessels owners to consider availing of the second round of the Decommissioning Scheme for whitefish vessels. This scheme aims to bring about a viable future for the seafood industry by reducing the size of Ireland’s sea fishing fleet to bring […]

  • BOEM to Provide Sand Resources for Florida Beaches Replenishment (USA)

    27 April 2012

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced a Record of Decision outlining a negotiated agreement for the future use of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) sand resources to replenish Hutchinson Island, Florida, following storm-induced wave impacts and coastal erosion. The bureau issued the Notice of Availability for the Record of Decision, which outlines the parameters of […]