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  • Dutra Secures Fire Island Contract

    23 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Dutra Group, San Rafael, California, was awarded a $47.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to stabilize Fire Island by placing 2,500,000 cubic yards of sand for initial construction of the Smith Point County Park reach of the Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point project area. Dutra Group, made up of three distinct but integrated companies, Dutra […]

  • Balance Island Concept in Bangladesh and Vietnam

    18 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Balance Island concept – developed by Grontmij, Imares and Waterachitect – will be taken to Southeast Asia to determine if it offers an effective solution to the salinization of drinking water and agricultural land in the river deltas of Bangladesh and Vietnam. The concept was developed two years ago specifically for the mouth of the Haringvliet, the Netherlands. […]

  • Lamma Island Dredging Kicks Off

    8 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    With immediate effect and for a period of approximately four weeks, dredging operations will be carried out off West Coast of Lamma Island, announced Hong Kong Marine Department. The works will be carried out by a flotilla of vessels including one grab dredger, three hopper barges, two tug boats and one survey boat. The number of vessels engaged in […]

  • Picture of the Day: Terrapin Island at Work

    4 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company’s dredge “Terrapin Island” is moored offshore, discharging a load of sand from her 6,400 cubic yard hopper through a submerged pipeline during one of her various dredging projects. The dredge discharge from the pipeline is shown in the foreground and dozers are used to grade and shape the discharged […]

  • Island Bay Seawall Scheme Begins

    13 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Work to repair, upgrade and strengthen Island Bay’s seawall will begin next week, according to the Wellington City Council. Contractors Fulton Hogan will have workers on site setting up from next Wednesday 18 November. They plan to complete the job by mid-June next year. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown said that the upgrade work will address structural issues […]

  • Beaver Island Restoration Scheme on the Table

    16 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Iowa DNR, is hosting a public open house February 21 to discuss an ecosystem restoration plan for the Beaver Island Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project. The public open house will take place from 6–8 p.m. […]

  • All Set for Shelter Island Improvements

    17 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    As part of efforts to improve public amenities on the Port of San Diego’s waterfront, the Shelter Island Boat Launch Facility Improvement Project is now under construction. This project is an important grant-funded upgrade for the Shelter Island Boat Launch, and represents the culmination of years of planning and public outreach, reported the port. According […]

  • Alney Island Flood Defenses on Display

    20 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Environment Agency has just announced that it will hold a drop-in event to discuss proposals for the Alney Island flood risk management scheme. At the event, which will be held at Riverside Sports Club on Monday, 30 October, from 2pm until 7pm, Environment Agency’s project team will be on hand to provide information about the […]

  • Improving Climate Resilience in Marshall Islands

    6 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    The World Bank and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands this week launched two climate change related projects that will increase investments in renewable energy, promote energy efficiency and enhance the country’s resilience to the impacts of climate change. The Marshall Islands is amongst the countries’ most vulnerable to climate change and […]

  • Pawleys Island Beach Renourishment Progresses

    30 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Pawleys Island Police Department has just released these beautiful photos from the South Carolina’s Pawleys Island beach fill program, showing the progress being made on a multi-million dollar renourishment project. The $14.8 million job is starting in the south end and crews will work their way up past the Pawleys Island Pier. The beach […]

  • Channel Islands Improvement Plan Available

    1 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Los Angeles District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to conduct repairs to the Channel Islands Harbor facility, a structure consisting of two parallel entrance jetties and a protective offshore breakwater near the entrance to the harbor. The project area will encompass approximately 60 acres of harbor channel, stone jetties, and an […]

  • Restoring Queen Bess Island WEBINAR

    19 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) will this week host a webinar named ‘Restoring Queen Bess Island’.  During the webinar, CPRA and LDWF project managers Katie Freer and Todd Baker will present on the recently restored Queen Bess Island. They’ll also discuss how coastal engineering and wildlife habitat expertise synergized to give new […]

  • CPRA Webinar on Barrier Island Restoration

    6 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Darin Lee, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program Lead, will host a presentation on barrier island restoration in coastal Louisiana today. The presentation will focus on the long-term projections of island loss and the impact of various restoration projects on the coast. Barrier islands are known as coastal Louisiana’s first […]

  • ConocoPhillips Extends Contract for Island Commander

    30 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Island Offshore announces that Island Commander has been awarded a contract extension from ConocoPhillips for a period of one year. This means that the vessel will be on a firm contract until June 2015, with further options until 2018. Island Commander was delivered from Vard Brevik in 2009 and went directly on contract with ConocoPhillips. […]

  • Island Offshore Achieves Debt Deal

    24 February 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Island Offshore has reached an agreement in principle on the terms of a proposed restructuring with certain of its main lenders and an ad hoc group of bondholders in its NOK 700 million senior unsecured callable bond issue. The company informed on Wednesday that if approved by all relevant stakeholders, the restructuring will include, inter […]

  • Island Drilling swings to loss on impairment

    11 March 2015

    Island Drilling, a Norwegian drilling contractor owning the Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig, has recorded a net loss of $51.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. The company has said that due to the general decline in the market values for drilling rigs, it has taken an impairment charge on the Island Innovator rig value of […]

  • Gulf Island takes over Leevac

    24 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Gulf Island Fabrication has bought Leevac Shipyards, and its related affiliates, for $20 million. Gulf Island says that, under the agreement, Leevac will sell to a Gulf Island subsidiary substantially all of Leevac’s assets, including Leevac’s leasehold interests at its marine fabrication facilities in Jennings, Louisiana and Lake Charles, Louisiana, and substantially all of Leevac’s […]

  • Block Island: First Steel in Water

    27 July 2015

    The first jacket foundation has been installed three miles (4.8 km) off the Block Island coast yesterday afternoon representing the first steel in the water for Deepwater Wind’s 30 MW project. According to CEO Jeff Grybowski, the 400 ton lift was conducted by the floating barge crane, Weeks 533, as “smooth as silk.” Even though the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Block Island Readying for the Last Turbine

    17 August 2016

    Montco lift boat Paul has loaded the last of the components for the fifth and final wind turbine to be installed at the 30MW Block Island wind farm. L/B Paul will depart the Port of Providence and deliver the components some three miles off Block Island, where Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s installation vessel Brave Tern will assemble the final GE […]

  • VIDEO: Block Island Cable Installation

    30 December 2016
    Storage

    Kokosing’s Durocher Marine Division installed six miles of subsea cables for America’s first offshore wind farm off Block Island, Rhode Island. All of the cables for the 30MW Block Island wind farm were installed by the end of July 2016. The wind farm came online on 12 December, feeding the first power generated by offshore […]

  • Luxury at sea on ‘floating island’ yacht

    3 March 2010

    Luxury on the sea is set to get even better with a new yacht designed to resemble a floating island. Wally Hermes Yachts unveiled the designs for its WHY craft at the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show this week.

  • Dredging up answer to vanishing islands

    13 November 2006

    The Maryland Port Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are proposing to spend more than $1 billion to rebuild two islands in the Chesapeake Bay — the government’s latest plan to use dredge spoil from shipping channels to enhance the environment.

  • Velsheda to sail Round the Island Race

    12 June 2008

    Classic yacht followers will be thrilled to know that the 1933 J Class yacht “Velsheda” is entered in the JP Mrogan Round The Island Race 2008.

  • Worries over island marina wait

    9 March 2005

    The Welsh Assembly Government has been criticised for the length of time it was taking to decide on a dredging licensing application for a new marina on Anglesey. Council leaders said too much time was being taken over the application for the development near Beaumaris.