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  • Russia: Baltic Shipyard Floats Out Oil Tanker Ksenia

    19 June 2012

    Baltic Shipyard held an official launching and naming ceremony today, June 19th 2012 for the fourth vessel in a series of non-self-propelled oil tankers of 2734 Project, built under order of the group of companies “Baltic Fuel Company” (BFC). The vessel was named “Ksenia”. Construction of the four tankers series started in January 2011, in […]

  • Manatua Fibreoptic Cable Lands in Rarotonga

    10 January 2020
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Avaroa Cable has confirmed that the Manatua One Polynesia submarine cable system has been brought ashore in Rutaki village, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The cable will provide international connectivity to Rarotonga and Aitutaki when it goes live in May 2020 with a capacity of up to 10Tbps. It will connect Apia in Samoa, Tahiti and Bora […]

  • Orion Marine Scores Matagorda Dredging Gig

    12 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded three contract options in the amount of $4.3 million to Orion Marine Construction Inc. for dredging of additional reaches of the Matagorda Ship Channel in Matagorda and Calhoun counties, Texas. The contractor is required to remove approximately 1,985,000 cubic yards of material with an estimated completion […]

  • USA: BOEM Reduces Offshore Wind Energy Area

    27 February 2012

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)  announced that it reduced the size of the offshore Wind Energy Area between Rhode Island and Massachusetts by excluding commercially important fishing grounds. The reduced Wind Energy Area includes approximately 164,750 acres within the original area identified by Rhode Island and Massachusetts in a 2010 memorandum of understanding. […]

  • NOAA Teams Up with Liquid Robotics to Protect Underwater Ecosystems

    17 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Liquid Robotics and NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) Pacific Islands Region (PIR) announced a multi-year agreement to develop solutions to help protect and preserve the Hawaiian and American Samoa marine sanctuaries and monuments. Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider, an autonomous surface ocean robot, will conduct long-term environmental monitoring and surveillance of the Pacific’s underwater […]

  • Shell’s Malampaya offshore platform installed (The Philippines)

    2 September 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The installation of the Malampaya Depletion Compression Platform (DCP), a new offshore natural gas platform installed in the West Philippine Sea off the coast of Palawan, Philippines has been completed. Following the completion of Substructure Engineering Design in early 2014, Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) appointed Arup to provide engineering support services for the fabrication […]

  • SCT&E LNG project gets local backing

    15 July 2014

    SCT&E LNG Chairman Greg Michaels and his executive team met with the Cameron Parish Police Jury in its monthly public meeting. SCT&E LNG, a subsidiary of Southern California Telephone & Energy (SCT&E), was scheduled on the Police Jury Docket to formally announce their 12mtpa liquefaction project on Monkey Island. “The SCT&E executive team was pleasantly […]

  • Update: Honghua confirms order for 200 LNG-fuelled vessels

    10 August 2015

    China’s Honghua Group confirmed it has secured an order from Shanghai-based LNG Power Shipping to build 200 LNG-powered inland river vessels.  The RMB760 million order includes one hundred 700 dwt vessels, fifty 950 dwt vessels and fifty 1,350 dwt vessels, which will be used to transport materials along Shanghai’s inland river. The vessels are expected […]

  • The Bahamas: Bimini Dredging Resumes

    2 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    A dredging project for Resorts World Bimini’s (RWB) major resort development on Bimini has been allowed by The Bahamas Supreme Court last week. As the Nassau Guardian reports, the Court discharged the Privy Council prohibition of the project. The prohibition lasted until RWB got all the permits for the project, which were obtained last week. […]

  • PHOTO: Creating Pluit City

    19 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    The dredging work for the creation of Pluit City, an artificial island in the bay of Jakarta, Indonesia, is moving ahead. The growth of Jakarta’s population by 800,000 people per year has resulted in ambitious plans for the further development of Jakarta Bay. Trailing suction hopper dredgers are now dredging the sand that will be […]

  • Image of the day: BlueTec platform producing power

    5 August 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    BlueTec floating tidal platform has been deployed in the Wadden Sea, off Netherlands. The platform is installed off Texel island and connected to the Dutch electricity grid. It is meant to stay there producing electricity for several years, allowing multiple turbines to be tried out, according to Bluewater. The first turbine that has been mounted […]

  • Prime Minister to Open Mongla Waterway, Inaugurate 11 Dredgers

    27 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, will inaugurate the recently dredged Mongla-Ghasiakhali Channel today through a video-conference from her Gonobhaban residence. During today’s opening ceremony, the Prime Minister will also inaugurate eleven newly procured dredgers. A significant amount of material was removed from the waterway to make the 31 kilometer river route operational, the Shipping Ministry […]

  • RoPax Ferry Runs Aground off Indonesia

    25 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Ro/Pax ferry Sabuk Nusantara 34  ran aground on August 23 with 171 passengers on board shortly after leaving the Saumlaki port on Jaumdena Island, Indonesia, according to local media. The duty officer apparently made a navigational error due to the lack of fairway navigational marks in treacherous waters around the Jaumdena Island. The ferry hit a […]

  • Marine renewable energy to have its day at the European Parliament

    22 August 2016

    As part of the MERIKA project, the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is organising a Marine Renewable Energy Research Day in Brussels on Wednesday 30 November 2016.

  • USA: Corps Presents Isle of Wight and Sinepuxent Bay Dredging Plans

    3 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has announced a plan for the Isle of Wight and Sinepuxent Bay dredging projects. The maintenance dredging of the Isle of Wight channel will include removal of approximately 18,000 cubic yards of material and either creating an island in the Isle of Wight Bay or placing it […]

  • Work Starts on Tipner Lake Coastal Defense Scheme

    12 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership and Portsmouth City Council’s coastal engineering team have started work on the Tipner Lake Coastal Defense scheme. The scheme, part of the overall North Portsea Island Coastal Flood Defenses, will run from the Mountbatten Centre, Twyford Avenue to the Ports Creek roundabout. The work will take place in three phases from April – […]

  • VIDEO: QCLNG Project Update

    8 August 2013

    As QGC approaches the final stages of construction to deliver first LNG in 2014, the company provided a video update of where the QCLNG project is in this phase of the project. https://vimeo.com/71793499 On completion, the LNG plant located on Curtis Island near Gladstone, will comprise two LNG trains – each able to produce more […]

  • Spain: Port of Mahon Dredging Project Halted

    27 March 2013

    The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has received a copy of the decree from the Balearic Islands’ High Court Prosecutor which immediately suspends the dredging project at the Port of Mahon until “specific evidence is taken by the Environmental Prosecution Service”. Given this situation, the APB will not at present be starting the […]

  • Spanish Authorities Detain Malta-Flagged Tanker

    23 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Malta-flagged oil/chemical tanker FT Portoria was detained in the port of Salinetas, Canary Islands following an order from the Spanish Ministry of Justice on May 20, the local media reported. The 2013-built vessel, owned by the Turkish company Furtrans Denizcilik, was reportedly arrested due to the shipowner’s unpaid debts. As the judicial proceedings could get prolonged, […]

  • Red Wing Hosts Meeting on Lake Pepin Plans

    7 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance kicked off an environmental restoration project with a meeting in Red Wing, Minnesota, on June 5.  The project will utilize material dredged by the district in Pool 4 to create islands at the head of Lake Pepin. The islands will […]

  • Shetland Composites to Manufacture Blades for Shetland Tidal Array

    9 December 2014
    Equipment

    A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced recently. Shetland Composites secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. The turbines, which sit more than 100ft […]

  • Shetland Firm to Manufacture Tidal Turbine Blades for Local Project

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced. Shetland Composites secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. The turbines, which sit more than 100ft […]

  • HMS Protector Helps Salvage Experts Study in St Helena

    19 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Survey ship HMS Protector produced stunning sonar imagery of the wreck of a wartime tanker to help salvage experts study the state of it. Unmistakeably broken in two, these are the upturned remains of a Royal Navy tanker seen as never before after seven decades on the Atlantic seabed. This is the wreck of RFA […]

  • Florida DEP Secures Funding for Ongoing Beach Nourishment

    28 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has provided more than $116 million in grants over the last three years to coastal communities to assist with the nourishment of some of Florida’s beaches. Grants are administered through the Beach Management Funding Assistance Program, which develops and implements a long-term, comprehensive beach management program for Florida. Nearly half, or 409.9 miles, of the […]

  • VIDEO: Uptime’s Gangway Used at Borkum West OWF

    10 December 2013
    Technology

    Uptime 23,4m AMC gangway has been used during operation at the Borkum West offshore wind farm. To access Borkum West’s wind turbines and substation, the 3-axis compensated UPTIME gangway was attached on the Island Crown vessel from Island Offshore. The gangway is 23,4m long and has a height adjustable pedestal. This access system allows the […]