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  • ITF Clamps Down on Chevron

    12 May 2015

    International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) president Paddy Crumlin declared on Monday Australia’s Barrow Island a Port of Convenience due to Chevron’s history of what he described as “union-busting efforts in the offshore oil and gas sector”. According to ITF, Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project off Australia’s north-west coast has blown out from USD 37 billion to […]

  • Real-time Linux controls shipbuilding robots

    21 March 2006

    Samsung Heavy Industries has been using a family of advanced RTLinux powered robots in its industry leading facilities on Koje Island Korea.

  • Massive oil spill threatens white Boracay beaches

    3 February 2006

    A MASSIVE oil spill caused by a National Power Corp. (Napocor) barge last December is threatening the world-famous Boracay island resort, senators said yesterday.

  • Offshore Wind event to be Held at Providence Biltmore (USA)

    15 November 2010

    Wind power off Rhode Island’s coast will be the subject of a conference intended to draw representatives of industry, government and…   (boston) [mappress] Source: boston, November 15, 2010;

  • Pawtuxet Falls Dam Removal Begins (USA)

    11 August 2011

    On Tuesday afternoon, workers began work on the largest dam removal project yet undertaken in Rhode Island. (coventry) [mappress] Source: coventry, August 11, 2011

  • Centrica gets green light for pilot hole in North Sea

    5 October 2015

    Centrica Resources (Norge) AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to drill a shallow borehole to investigate the possible presence of shallow gas in block 8/10, offshore Norway.  Centrica is the operator of production licence 405 in block 8/10 in the North Sea, close to the Ula field and around 263 kilometres […]

  • New Zealand: Weather Disrupts Rena Salvage

    12 December 2011

    Weather continues to affect salvage operations, with no activity yesterday (Sunday) due to swell and wind conditions. Weather today is marginal for safe operations, so container removal activity today is unlikely. While container removal operations are suspended, salvors will focus on installing patches in the corridors of the wreck, to improve buoyancy. 15 containers were […]

  • JAXPORT Sets New Record

    19 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Thanks to investments like harbor dredging and other port development projects, the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) yesterday marked a new record with the arrival of the ZIM vessel Cape Sounio, the largest container ship to ever call Jacksonville. “We are grateful to our 2M alliance partners – ZIM, Maersk, MSC, HMM and Hamburg Süd – […]

  • Damen Wins Second Ice Class Ferry

    24 December 2013

    The Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government has awarded Damen Shipyards a contract for a second state-of-the-art, 80 m Ice Class ferry, just a few weeks after placing an order for its first vessel, which will serve the Fogo Island-Change Islands. This second order is for an identical vessel but it will be deployed between Bell […]

  • Scientists Explore Senghor Sea Mount

    27 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    A group of European and American scientists have embarked on an oceanographic mission aboard the German research vessel RV Maria S. Merian to study the physical and bio-geo-chemical characterization of the Senghor Sea Mount ecosystem located to the north of the Cape Verde Archipelago. The ten-day scientific mission is being conducted in the waters of […]

  • Danish company opts for sustainable steel for its floating renewable energy platforms

    13 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has signed a letter of intent with a specialist in sustainable recycling of maritime materials Renable for the supply of recycled steel for its floating renewable energy platforms.

  • Terntank takes delivery of second fossil-free hybrid tanker

    28 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Swedish tanker operator Terntank has taken delivery of the second 100% biofuel compatible chemical and product tanker that emits no greenhouse gases or carbon particulates during port operations.

  • Santos refutes equity raising reports

    17 August 2015

    Australia’s Santos, operator of the GLNG project, has denied media reports it was planning to launch an equity raising.

  • AWEA: Offshore Wind to Boost NC Economy

    20 March 2017

    After Avangrid Renewables, which recently built North Carolina’s first onshore wind farm, won the rights to develop an offshore wind project off Kitty Hawk for more than USD 9 million, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) hailed the potential effect of the offshore wind industry on the state’s economy.

  • Kulluk Assesment Continues. Survival Boats Damaged (USA)

    10 January 2013

    Unified Command, established in response to the Kulluk towing incident that occurred off Alaska twoo weeks ago, has announced that assessment of the Kulluk drilling vessel in Kiliuda Bay continues, with inspection-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) being utilized to assess the hull. “There continues to be no sign of leakage from the Kulluk,” said the […]

  • Plan to Dredge Coast Along Belgium Launched

    6 July 2010

    The Belgian government’s integrated coastal safety plan must protect the coastal area in Flanders before 2015 against a devastating super flood that occurs around every 100 years. Due to the constant rise in sea levels (2 mm per annum) eight weak points have been identified along this 67 kilometre coastline which may not be able […]

  • Jumbo Delivers Caissons for Gorgon (Australia)

    31 August 2012

    On August 12, 2012, Jumbo successfully completed the transport and discharge of twenty-five MOF caissons for the Gorgon Project. These concrete caissons will form the base of the heavy lift Material Offloading Facility for the Chevron LNG Plant, to be constructed on Barrow Island in Australia. The crew of the Jumbo Jubilee accomplished a discharge […]

  • USA: Corps Proposes Guilford Harbor Federal Navigation Project Dredging

    5 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to dredge the Guilford Harbor Federal navigation project in Guilford, Conn. Guilford Harbor is located in New Haven County within Long Island Sound. “The Corps is proposing to dredge about 53,000 cubic yards of sandy and fine-grained material from the federal navigation project to […]

  • APLNG receives first gas, pipeline commissioned

    11 February 2015

    Australia Pacific LNG informed it had reached a significant milestone with the arrival of first gas from its coal seam gas fields in the Surat Basin to its liquefied natural gas facility on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, Queensland.

  • LNG-powered pusher developed by Kooiman

    5 September 2016
    Vessels

    Kooiman Marine Group said it has recently developed a push boat for inland operations with LNG dual-fuel propulsion system.

  • South Korea: Jeju to Get 84 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    15 October 2012

    Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won an order to build an 84MW wind farm off the Jeju Island, the company announced on Sunday. Last month, SHI and Korea Southern Power Corporation (KOSPO) partnered up to establish a special purpose company Daejeong Offshore Wind Power, from which SHI has obtained this order. The project will comprise […]

  • Greece: Vassiliki Marina Development Plan Includes Dredging

    13 July 2012

    Dimos LeykadasGR has invited bidders to submit their offers for the construction of a leisure marina in Vassiliki in the northeastern part of the Royal Bay, in the southwestern part of the island of Lefkada. The project includes: – Construction of windward quay with hardcore and rock fill by natural boulders; – Construction of leeward […]

  • MTCC Nets Meedhoo Dredging Contract

    21 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Maldives Transport and Contracting Company Plc (MTCC) has won a contract for the Dh. Meedhoo Harbor construction works. Meedhoo, an island in Dhaalu Atoll, is the northernmost inhabited island in the Dhaalu Atoll, located 141.63 km southwest of the country’s capital, Malé. The contract was signed today by Fathimath Shana Faarooq, Director general of […]

  • Boskalis Bags Port of Rotterdam Quay Walls and Jetty Contract

    21 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Boskalis has been awarded a contract by the Port of Rotterdam Authority to build quay walls and a jetty, as well as to execute related activities for the construction of a new tank terminal in the port. The contract, won in a consortium with Van Hattum en Blankevoort (Royal VolkerWessels) and TBI subsidiary Mobilis, is […]

  • Land Reclamation for Kulhudhuffushi Airport Wrapped Up

    4 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has successfully concluded the land reclamation phase to develop an airport in Haa Dhaalu Kulhudhuffushi, local media reports.  The major development project began in November 2017 with the MTCC’s new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ‘Mahaa Jarraafu’. The dredger, designed and built by Royal IHC yard in Qidong, China, is the […]