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  • Spotted: Red Eagle Spreads Its Wings

    9 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    P&O Repasa, a new company formed by the acquisition of the majority of the shares in Spanish towage firm Repasa by P&O Maritime, has taken delivery of Damen’s Fast Crew Supplier 5009 Red Eagle which will be operated from Malabo on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. According to Damen, the Red Eagle will ferry personnel and […]

  • Port of Tallinn Orders Four Ferries

    3 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Tallinn has signed contracts with Remontowa Shipbuilding and Sefine Shipyard shipbuilding facilities for the construction of four new car-passenger ferry boats to be used on the lines between the mainland and major Estonian islands; two ferries are to be built by each shipbuilding facility. The four new ferry boats will be constructed […]

  • McMoRan Apparent High Bidder for 14 GOM Blocks (USA)

    28 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    McMoRan Exploration Co. announced the results of its participation in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 held last week by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in New Orleans, Louisiana. McMoRan was the apparent high bidder on a total of 14 lease blocks on the outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of […]

  • Grounded Bulker MV Miner Springs a Leak

    22 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Around 800 litres of oil was collected after it leaked during the final stages of removing the wreck of the bulk carrier MV Miner off Scaterie Island, the government of Canada’s Nova Scotia province reports. The contractor, RJ MacIsaac Construction, was planning to remove the last remaining engine from the wreck site. Because it was […]

  • 50Hertz finds contractors for boulder removal

    22 September 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Project & Tenders, Safety

    German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz Transmission has selected two contractors to perform boulder removal in the Baltic Sea and North Sea. Germany’s Heinrich Hirdes and UK-based Hughes Subsea Services have secured contracts with 50Hertz Offshore for boulder removal services on the cable route of the Ostwind 3 project and possible future projects in the Baltic Sea […]

  • Boskalis, Van Oord complete one of UK’s biggest beneficial placement projects

    3 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    The beneficial placement project to recharge areas of Mersea Harbour, using dredged materials from Harwich Haven Authority’s £120 million channel deepening initiative, has been completed successfully. The recharge work was carried out on behalf of Harwich Harbour Authority by a joint venture of Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord. Mersea’s Harbour has been under severe […]

  • Exposure loss for vehicle owners onboard Felicity Ace estimated at $155M

    22 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    A fire on the Felicity Ace car carrier off Azores Islands is likely to generate at least $155 million in expected losses for Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi and Lamborghini vehicles on board the vessel, the analysis from risk modelling company Russell showed.

  • Boluda wins container terminal concession in Lanzarote

    21 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Boluda Maritime Terminals, a subsidiary of shipping company Boluda Corporación Marítima, has obtained the concession of the container terminal in the port of Arrecife in Lanzarote.

  • Hochul announces start of $107M Living Breakwaters Project

    14 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, yesterday announced the start of in-water construction of the Living Breakwaters, a $107 million effort that will provide physical, social, and ecological resiliency for the South Shore of Staten Island. Under the project, the 2,400 linear feet of breakwaters – consisting of eight partially submerged enhanced stone and eco-concrete structures – will […]

  • EPA Acts to Strengthen Stormwater Pollution Controls in Guam

    10 February 2011

      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a decision to require all dischargers of urban stormwater in Guam to obtain permits to control pollution in runoff from urbanized areas of the island. Today’s action designates all current and future municipal stormwater sources in Guam to follow Clean Water Act permitting requirements. Municipal stormwater is […]

  • APB Unveils Port of Mahon Dredging Plans (Spain)

    19 September 2013

    Yesterday, the Spanish Official Gazette published the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands’ 2012 Financial Statements, which showed profits of €14.4 million and a turnover of €59.5 million. These statements were audited by the State Comptroller’s Office with no reservations. Looking to the future, the APB’s investment plan includes a budget of €33.7 million for […]

  • USA: Officials Introduce Dredging Plan for Rockaway Beach

    7 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) for dredging of Rockaway Beach and Coney Island. The Rockaway Beach project is located along the southern margin of the Borough of Queens, City of New York, and extends from Beach 149th Street to Beach 19th Street and […]

  • Avenir LNG takes delivery of Avenir Aspiration LBV

    11 October 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    UK-based small-scale LNG company Avenir LNG has announced the delivery of LNG bunkering and supply vessel (LBV) Avenir Aspiration, the first out of four coming from the Nantong CIMC SOE shipyard.

  • PivotBuoy floater enters construction stage

    31 July 2020
    Technology

    The manufacturing of the PivotBuoy offshore wind floating platform has commenced in Santander, Spain. In March, X1 Wind and its partners completed and approved the design of the single point mooring system platform for floating wind turbines. After the design was approved, the manufacturing of the PivotBuoy and the floating platform started at DEGIMA facilities. […]

  • US: Geophysical surveys kick off at South Fork, Revolution Wind sites

    30 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    MMT has commenced geophysical surveys of the seabed at the Revolution Wind and South Fork offshore wind project sites off the U.S. East Coast, using the MV Deep Helder vessel from SeaMar. The Sweden-based offshore survey company awarded a six-month contract to SeaMar for the offshore support vessel Deep Helder, with the contract’s start date […]

  • New Zealand: Chatham Rock Completes Another Milestone

    1 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Chatham Rock Phosphate has achieved another major milestone by completing and filing evidence from 31 expert witnesses and answers to 62 queries from the Environmental Protection Authority. CRP has applied for a marine consent to mine rock phosphate from an area of the seabed on the Chatham Rise, in the Pacific Ocean 450 km from […]

  • Chevron’s Gorgon Project Gets EPA Conditional Approval

    3 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Chevron Australia’s Gorgon Gas Development Fourth Train Expansion Proposal, which is expected to expand the liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity on Barrow Island from 15 to 20 million tonnes per annum, has been recommended for conditional approval by the Environmental Protection Authority. The Fourth Train Expansion Proposal would involve drilling new production wells and […]

  • GLDD Wraps up Phase II of the Post Florence Renourishment Project

    30 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has successfully completed Phase II of the Post Florence Renourishment Project. According to the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, GLDD’s hopper dredge Ellis Island delivered the last load of sand to West Emerald Isle (“reach 2”) at approximately 1:30 pm, on April 29th signifying the conclusion of the beach nourishment […]

  • USACE Releases Public Notice for Corpus Christi Channel Deepening

    6 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Galveston District has released a public notice for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority’s proposed Channel Deepening Project, for which an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared.  “The Channel Deepening Project was also determined to be a covered project under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation […]

  • Dutch Government Selects KONGSBERG EM 2040C Multibeam

    2 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (Rijkswaterstaat Survey department IGA) has selected the Kongsberg Maritime EM 2040C very high resolution, shallow water multibeam system to spearhead its inland waterway survey operations. For starters, the Ministry has in 2015 ordered five EM 2040C dual head and dual swath systems and the contract provides the option […]

  • Canaipa Passage Dredging Project Wrapped Up

    3 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Canaipa Passage dredging project has been completed in time for the busy summer season, reports the Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA). GCWA invested $500,000 to maintain safe navigational access to the important link between Moreton Bay and the Gold Coast. They also added that the dredging will provide a depth of -2.5m LAT (Lowest […]

  • South Carolina Ports Authority Raises the Bar

    8 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) yesterday reported 6.4 percent year-over-year container volume growth, with a record 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled in 2018. “Last year marked the third consecutive calendar year of record TEU volume for SCPA. The Port moved 199,701 TEUs in December alone, a 9.2 percent increase over December 2017 […]

  • GAO Releases Lower Mississippi River Dredging Report

    16 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    A couple weeks ago, the General Accountability Office (GAO) presented dredging report for 13 Lower Mississippi River ports between St. Louis and Baton Rouge, La. In the report, GAO reviewed the Corps’ 2010–2015 port traffic data for 13 of 18 inland ports in the region. Data for 2015 were the most recent available. GAO also interviewed Corps […]

  • RTsys System Monitors Seismic Activity of Subsea Volcano

    8 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The underwater volcano, Tagoro, off the coast of El Hierro Island, in the Canary archipelago, is being monitored by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) together with both Canarian Universities. They rely on RTsys expertise, the specialists in passive and active underwater acoustics and drones, who has designed a combined seismic and acoustic system especially […]

  • BP Sells Yacheng Stake for $308 Mln (China)

    19 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    BP today announced that it has agreed the sale of its 34.3 per cent interest in the Yacheng gas field in the South China Sea to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) for $308 million cash. Subject to regulatory, CNOOC and third party approvals, BP expects the deal to close in the second half of […]