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  • Three Is Not a Crowd off Block Island

    11 August 2016

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s installation vessel Brave Tern has installed three of the five GE Renewable Energy Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm. This is the first offshore wind farm to be installed in US waters and the first project Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has worked on outside of Europe. “The first turbine on this landmark […]

  • ‘Island Crown’ PSV hits the water

    24 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    The hull of the Island Offshore-owned Island Condor platform supply vessel yesterday hit water for the first time. Island Offshore, the Norwegian owner of offshore supply vessels shared a couple of photos of the Rolls-Royce UT 755 CD design on their Facebook page. The vessel plunged into the water yesterday in the Braila shipyard in Romania.  Island […]

  • Wood Island Dredging Proposal on the Table

    18 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Wood Island and Pool at Biddeford Federal Navigation Project (FNP) in Biddeford, Maine. The proposed work involves maintenance dredging of portions of the 10-foot-deep Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) Federal navigation channel and 6-foot-deep basin at Biddeford Pool, […]

  • Irish tidal and wave industry tackle funding

    12 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA), which represents Ireland’s tidal and wave energy sectors, has published a set of recommendations to address funding obstacles encountered by Irish pre-commercial wave and tidal developers.

  • Pelamis Takes Step Forward with Wave Device Deployment

    26 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Pelamis Wave Power has been selected as one of just two technology developers to progress to the next stage of a competitive procurement process with Irish utility ESB for the deployment of Pelamis wave machines on the west coast of Ireland. Pelamis is one of only two technology developers to have reached this stage of […]

  • SEAI Chief Executive joins IEA, leaves SEAI

    4 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Brian Motherway will leave his CEO post in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to take up a new role in IEA. According to SEAI, Motherway will formally resign from the CEO post on December 2, 2015, to take up a new role as Head of the Energy Efficiency Division with the International Energy […]

  • Sustainable Energy Awards 2016 open for entrants

    13 April 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has launched Sustainable Energy Awards 2016 encouraging organizations, businesses or communities who have achieved energy savings through efficiency or renewable energy to enter.

  • Money Secured for Rhode Island Study

    10 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline have announced $891,243 in federal funding for a partnership between Rhode Island and four other New England states to study the effects of coastal storms and develop tools and solutions to help communities respond to these events. The partnership will include researchers […]

  • Fire Island Beach Works Completed

    17 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Robbins Rest Coastline Resiliency Project which is aimed to reduce significant coastal erosion threat on Fire Island has been completed now. According to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the contractors have completed all emergency repairs of Robbins Rest on Fire Island. The work on the project that will address coastal erosion and improve coastal resiliency in the area began in […]

  • Three Barrier Island Projects Announced

    16 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards outlined the details of a $160 million project to restore and nourish two barrier islands and one headland on the southern perimeter of the Terrebonne Basin on September 13. Weeks Marine, a marine construction and dredging contractor with a branch headquarters in Covington, Louisiana, won the construction bid. According to […]

  • Block Island OWF Foundations Complete

    9 December 2015
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The first offshore construction season is now complete for America’s first offshore wind farm, with all five steel jacket foundations fully installed at the Block Island Wind Farm site. Construction crews installed the last deck platform on November 21. All of the construction and crew vessels associated with the operation have now demobilized from the […]

  • Seven Islands Shipping Files for IPO

    5 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Mumbai-based Seven Islands Shipping (SIS) is to make a stock market entry as the tanker shipping company has filed draft offer documents with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to raise INR 4.5 billion (USD 69.2 million) via an initial public offering (IPO). The IPO comprises a fresh issue of up to INR 2 billion […]

  • Prysmian cables to link Greek islands

    21 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Prysmian has secured a circa €150 million contract with the Greek electricity grid operator Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) for an interconnector that will link the islands of Milos, Folegandros and Santorini. The connection is part of Phase D of the Cyclades’ electrical interconnection that completes a project aimed at the energy integration of the […]

  • Australian Greens: Abrolhos Islands in Danger

    27 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Australian Greens say the Federal Government is threatening WA’s iconic Abrolhos Islands by releasing acreage for oil and gas exploration that encroaches on the area. “The Abrolhos Islands are iconic in WA, they are a unique marine environment with many threatened species and are important to WA fishing industries. These low-lying islands would be […]

  • Beach Nourishment Begins at Hayling Island

    21 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The beach nourishment operations at Hayling Island are set to begin today with the dredger expected to arrive at the dredge site, Chichester Harbor Approach Channel, at approximately midday, Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership – ESCP reports.  Once the first dredge has been carried out, the material will be pumped ashore on the next high tide. […]

  • New Cutter Suction Dredger for Leland

    13 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    New Wolverine Class cutter suction dredger, built by DSC Dredge for Leland Township Board, was put into the water for the first time on April 8, according to the Leland Michigan Chamber of Commerce. The board purchased this CSD with all ancillary equipment and items for $488,681. They were able to purchase the new dredger through community fundraising. The […]

  • Bangladesh: Inland Waterways Need Dredging

    21 February 2011

    Country’s inland water route is in a moribund state. The navigability of the rivers has fallen at an alarming rate. The situation has come… By Khalilur Rahman (thefinancialexpress) [mappress] Source: thefinancialexpress, February 21, 2011;

  • Minesto Strengthens Faroe Islands Ties

    9 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Minesto’s Board of Directors and senior management recently visited the Faroe Islands where they engaged in strategy discussions and meetings with key stakeholders. Minesto’s Board and management team met with the company’s collaboration partner in the Faroe Islands, the electric utility company SEV. The purpose was to discuss the current joint project to install two […]

  • Hog Island Wharf Dredging Proposed

    21 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Sunoco Partners Marketing and Terminals is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of three berthing areas to their Docks 2, 3, and 4, at the Hog Island Wharf, including 10 years of maintenance dredging, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District reports.  The proposed dredging is located at 11 Hog Island Road, within the Delaware […]

  • Leland Plans to Purchase Dredging Vessel

    9 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The Leland Township Harbor Commission is currently raising funds in an effort to purchase a dredger, Leland Michigan Chamber of Commerce has announced on its official website. “We have identified a particular size and type of dredger that we think would be suitable for our needs, and we have a price quote of approximately $500.000,” Leland […]

  • Smith Island Comment Period Ends

    10 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The deadline for sending comments on the proposed navigation improvement project at Rhodes Point/Smith Island ended on Friday, July 7, according to the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. The comments are sought on an Environmental Assessment for the project in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. According to Col. Ed Chamberlayne, […]

  • New Sand for South Padre Island

    8 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, partnered with the Texas General Land Office and the City of South Padre Island to begin a beach renourishment project this week using beach-quality sand harvested from the Brazos Island Harbor Jetty and Entrance channels in South Texas, maintenance dredging project. “We’re very excited about this year’s […]

  • EOD Techniques Used in the Solomon Islands

    20 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) techniques that have been developed and refined during operations and conflicts around the world are now being put to good use in the Solomon Islands. EOD specialists from Australia’s Army, Navy and Air Force, along with forces from the United States, Canada and New Zealand have joined together to use skills, […]

  • BTB – Largest Inland Terminal in the Netherlands

    26 September 2012

    On 10 September the Barge Terminal Born (BTB) gained a new 150-metre long quay and a site of four hectares for container storage. The port of Holtum-Noord, where the terminal is located, was also deepened to 3.95 metres. The terminal capacity has doubled from 150,000 TEU to 300,000 TEU. This makes BTB the largest inland […]

  • The Netherlands Considers Building New Island

    21 December 2012

    The northern Dutch province of Groningen is making plans for creating a new Wadden Island, Dutch newspaper Trouw reported on Thursday. The current Dutch inhabited islands in the Wadden Sea are Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog. The new isle of 500 hectares should arise between the uninhabited island Rottumeroog, the German island of Borkum […]