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  • Ulstein launches ‘Island Performer’

    16 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Ulstein Group has announced that the “Island Performer” SCV has been launched yesterday afternoon at their Ulstein Verft yard. The Company has informed through the social media that the outfitting and testing of the vessel is now scheduled and will be carried out before the delivery to its owner, Island Offshore. The “Island Performer” is […]

  • Busy cruising weekend for island

    26 May 2007

    The QE2 is moored off the coast of Guernsey as part of one of the island’s busiest weekends for cruise ships. The ship, weighing 70,000 tonnes and 960ft long, has a top speed of 32 knots and is one of the largest and fastest passenger vessels afloat.

  • Watchdog reviews island shipping

    26 July 2006

    Jersey’s shipping industry is to be the subject of a study by the island’s competition authority. The investigation, requested by Economic Development Minister Philip Ozouf will cover ferries, freight and port services. It will look at competition levels, fee and price structures, and measures that could be taken to improve efficiency. The authority said it […]

  • Cera exec. joins Island

    15 September 2008

    Irish explorer Island Oil and Gas has appointed a former executive of Cambridge Energy Research Associates to its board. Adrian Doull, who until 2003 was senior director for CERA in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, has joined Island as a non-executive director. Doull was also chief operating officer of the Anglo-American Group and has […]

  • Netherlands ponder building island

    10 December 2007

    The Netherlands wants to redraw the map of Europe – literally. Dubai has built Palm Island. Now the world leaders in land reclamation are considering an island in the shape of a tulip to fight overcrowding and shield the coastline from the rising sea.

  • Maldives Buy Floating Island

    7 March 2010

    Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands… [mappress] Source: Clean Technica, March 7, 2010

  • Tybee Island Dredging Video

    3 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released a video about the Tybee Beach Renourishment project in Georgia. Under the $10 million contract with the Corps, cutter suction dredge Alaska, owned and operated by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Illinois, has been dredging sand from off-shore of Tybee Island onto the beach since mid-October. GLDD […]

  • VIDEO: Wallasea Island Scheme

    14 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The first phase of the Wallasea Island Wild Coast project was completed just a couple of days ago when the new sea walls of ‘Cell 1’ were successfully breached to allow for tidal flow into the marshland. This coastal scheme, located eight miles north of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, aims to transform 670 hectares of farmland, an […]

  • Hayling Island Project Completed

    8 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    A program of beach management was carried out recently along the Eastoke frontage of Hayling Island. The shingle beach along Eastoke is the primary line of defense against erosion and flooding, however coastal processes are constantly eroding the shingle bank. Without regular intervention, the densely populated area of Eastoke would quickly become vulnerable to flooding […]

  • ‘Island Earl’ Contract Extended

    25 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore has informed that Peterson Supply B.V, Den Helder has extended the contract on the M/V Island Earl with one year. The Island Earl began her contract as a new build in 2008, and has been supporting the SNS pool in the southern sector of the North Sea ever since. “We would like to […]

  • How to create a city island

    10 March 2014

    Located in the eastern part of the Netherlands lies the oldest city of the Netherlands, Nijmegen. In a bend of the river Waal a lot is happening: a city island is under construction, new bridges are being built and an ancillary channel will be created. From all over the world representatives from governments and companies […]

  • Wallops Island Contract Awarded

    10 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $23.7 million contract to Miami-based business Continental Heavy Civil Corp. for beach renourishment at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.   The project includes construction of breakwaters and placing 1.3 million cubic yards of sand along a four-mile stretch of […]

  • Island Enforcer to Work for BP

    9 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Los Angeles-based C-Innovation has secured a two-year master services deal, with call-off options, with BP for inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services for the M/V Island Enforcer. The 122-meter subsea installation and construction vessel was delivered in 2010 from the Bergen Group in Norway to Island Offshore, a joint venture between the Ulstein family of Norway and the […]

  • Enhancing Inland Navigation in Europe

    28 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Enhancing inland navigation is essential to cope with constantly growing transport volumes within the Baltic Sea Region and Europe in a sustainable way, reports the Port of Hamburg. According to the port, inland navigation must be further developed as an integral part of a multimodal and sustainable transport system which takes advantage of digitalization and […]

  • Beaver Island Dredging on Display

    1 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District’s representatives met with partners from Iowa Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region yesterday for a site visit of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project (HREP) at Beaver Island in Clinton County, Iowa. The site visit […]

  • Gewan Island Contract Awarded

    17 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    United Development Company (UDC), a Qatari real estate developer, has awarded the execution of marine works at Gewan Island to UrbaCon Trading & Contracting Company and Promar Marine Contracting Company. UDC president and CEO, Ibrahim Jassim al-Othman, signed the agreements with UrbaCon Trading & Contracting Company vice chairman and Group CEO, Ramez al-Khayyat, and Promar […]

  • Hall’s Island Restoration Project

    18 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board is leading a team to reconstruct Hall’s Island, which was destroyed by industrial development in the 1960s. Located just north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, the site is being excavated to create a new back channel that will re-separate the island from the mainland. In the process, 1,000 linear […]

  • Island Offshore Posts Loss

    29 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Marine contractor Island Offshore has booked loss before tax of NOK 37 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2017, versus profit before tax of NOK 21 million same time last year. Sequentially, the loss narrowed from NOK 1.05 billion following vessel value impairment of NOK 896 million. The Oslo-listed company reported revenue of NOK 259 million in […]

  • Creating Horseshoe Bend Island

    28 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    In its latest issue of Terra et Aqua, the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has introduced an article about the Horseshoe Bend project in Louisiana. According to the paper, the capacity for the placement of shoal material dredged from Horseshoe Bend at eight wetland development sites located along the river’s bank lines adjacent to the channel was nearly exhausted in […]

  • Shelter Island Grant Awarded

    24 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The California Division of Boating and Waterways has awarded the Port of San Diego a $6.1 million grant from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund for the Shelter Island Boat Launch Facility Improvements Project. The grant will help fund the estimated $9.5 million needed for the project. The project entails improving the launch ramp’s basin […]

  • Fire Island Dredging Progresses

    25 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dredging is underway at Fire Island National Seashore to improve public access to marina and docking facilities affected by Hurricane Sandy. The $2.9 million project, funded through Sandy relief aid, was designed to ensure safe access to the Sailors Haven and Watch Hill marinas on Fire Island by restoring navigation channels to a width of […]

  • Quality mark inland terminals

    9 July 2010

    The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Dutch Association of Inland Terminal Operators (VITO) initiate and will implement a quality mark for inland terminals. It aims at attracting more cargo to inland shipping. The quality mark will make it possible for shippers and logistics service providers to easily gain insight into the qualities and added […]

  • Hamilton Island Superyacht Series

    12 December 2007

    Motor and sailing superyachts are invited to compete in the inaugural Hamilton Island Superyacht Series which will be staged between November 9 and 14, 2008 on courses around some of the most beautiful Great Barrier Reef islands Australia has to offer.

  • Naval vessel linked with island

    29 January 2008

    Guernsey’s relationship with the Royal Navy has become closer with the announcement a new warship is to be affiliated with the island. HMS Daring is the first of a new type of air defence warship and will become Guernsey’s ship.

  • Ireland: Testing reveals potential for next-gen marine turbine

    25 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    The University of Galway has completed testing of a next-generation marine hydrokinetic turbine foil for renewable energy, said to have shown potential for a next-generation marine turbine. The testing program is part of the €3.9 million European Commission’s Horizon 2020-funded CRIMSON project and involved 1.3 million fatigue cycles on the turbine foil – the highest […]