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  • Poplar Island Growing Bigger Every Day

    21 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, is leading an interagency project to help restore the ecosystem at Poplar Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island is a $1.4-billion sustainability project to provide habitat for diamondback terrapins, over 160 bird species, crabs, rockfish and killifish, all […]

  • NASA’s Wallops Island Beach Restoration Begins

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Construction work to restore the beach and dunes protecting NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility damaged by super storm Sandy began on July 18. Dredges from New Jersey-based Weeks Marine, Inc. are on-site, pumping sand from an off-shore borrow site and placing the sand along the beach restoring berm and dune elevations to levels that will […]

  • Long Island Sound Restoration Plan Released

    9 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Long Island Sound Study, a partnership of federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as nonprofit and community groups and businesses, yesterday released a new updated Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for restoring and protecting the Long Island Sound over the next two decades. The Long Island Sound and its watershed is a […]

  • PSA Identifies Room for Improvement at Island Innovator

    26 March 2013

    On 5 March 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit activity directed at Island Innovator Drilling and intervention semisubmersible rig, which involved a review of preparedness-related aspects. Odfjell Drilling will operate the facility on the Norwegian continental shelf. The PSA’s activity was carried out as a step in the processing of […]

  • Cook Islands: Muri Dredging Plan Unveiled

    30 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Cook Islands Government’s Project Steering Group has developed a near-shore dredging plan to remove sediment from the mouth of the Vai Te Renga Stream (near Pacific Resort), using the sediment along eroded areas of the Muri Lagoon foreshore. This cleanup program is part of the Mei Te Vai Ki Te Vai water sanitation project. […]

  • Royal HaskoningDHV Role in Boubyan Island Project

    16 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Previously uninhabited, Boubyan Island is the largest of the Kuwaiti coastal islands and is now the scene of a complete development project. The overall master plan for the island’s evolution includes residential and industrial developments, a bridge link to the mainland, a seaport and a nature reserve. The port, known as the Mubarak Al Kabeer […]

  • Deepwater Wind Proposes to Power Long Island

    27 March 2014
    Authorities & Government

    In response to the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)’s request for new sources of renewable energy, Deepwater Wind is proposing supplying Long Island with more than 200 megawatts of renewable energy from Deepwater ONE – an offshore wind farm located approximately 30 miles east of Montauk, New York. At this distance, the wind farm will […]

  • Carnegie Releases Update on Réunion Island Project

    2 January 2013

    As has been previously announced, French power utility EDF EN and French maritime defense specialist DCNS, are deploying the current generation CETO 4 unit on La Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The Réunion Island Project is funded by EDF EN and both the French and La Réunion Governments. The manufacture and installation of the […]

  • USA: Staten Island Ferry to Run on LNG

    19 August 2011

      The Staten Island Ferry will receive $2,340,000 in federal funding for a pilot program for conversion from diesel fuel to liquefied natural… [mappress] Source: silive, August 18, 2011;

  • Faroe Islands: Naming Ceremony of Saeborg PSV

    23 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      Tummas Justinussen from the Faroe Islands is willing to compete with Norwegian shipowners and focuses on advanced supply vessels from the Herøy-based company Havyard Group. This Saturday the Faroese character invites 50 people from Sunnmøre and Sogn in western Norway across to the naming ceremony of the brand new “Saeborg” in Torshavn, the Faroe […]

  • Tideland upgrades warning systems for Seaway Heavy Lifting

    20 August 2010

    Tideland Signal and its agents P.C. Jansen have upgraded a package of aids to navigation that will be used by Seaway Heavy Lifting’s HLV Stanislav Yudin to install a new platform for GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland BV in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The revised package consists of a Tideland ML-300 MaxLumina lantern, […]

  • Zeeland Seaports Sets Up New Supervisory Board

    22 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The general meeting of shareholders of NV Zeeland Seaports decided to appoint Roelf H. de Boer and Guillaume Jetten and to reappoint Gerard van Harten to the Supervisory Board of the Zeeland port authority as of 1 January 2015.  Roelf H. de Boer began his career in shipping at Nedlloyd. After occupying a number of […]

  • UAE: Tideland Buoys for Abu Dhabi’s Mussafah Channel

    21 February 2011

    In only 90 days, Tideland Signal Limited has manufactured and supplied a total of 84 polyethylene buoys to guide navigation in the newly-dredged 63.5 km channel, which allows ships of up to 9m draft to reach Abu Dhabi’s expanding Mussafah Industrial City. The channel has been dredged by the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) under […]

  • Kobelco BM700 in Castletownbere

    22 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    Dungiven, Northern Ireland-based Ideal Form Crane Hire has supplied a Kobelco BM700 to marine, civil engineering and building contractor Keating Construction for work on the expansion of the Dinish Wharf in Castletownbere, County Cork, Ireland. The €23 million (£19.95 million) expansion, which includes a new 216m-long quay structure, comprised of 15m-long 1016 tubular piles, a […]

  • Van Oord’s Dredger Geopotes 15 Busy in the North Sea

    8 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger Geopotes 15 yesterday started beach replenishment project along the coast of Texel, the Netherlands. RWS, the Dutch public works agency, contracted Van Oord in spring 2018 to maintain the coasts of the Wadden Islands Texel, Ameland and Vlieland. Beach replenishment will stabilize the basic coastline and guarantee safety along […]

  • ESB, EIB Sign €100 Mln Loan Facility for Irish Transmission Grid Upgrade

    30 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Storage

    ESB and EIB have today signed a loan facility for €100 million. These funds will be used to enable continued investment in the electricity network in the south west region of the country to connect renewable energy to the national transmission network. This is the second part of a total loan facility of €200m agreed […]

  • Cross-border tidal research center opens in Belfast

    18 January 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Queen’s University Belfast has officially opened the €9.7 million cross-border research center for renewable energy projects in UK and Ireland.

  • UK government committed to Scottish islands’ renewables

    9 July 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has confirmed the UK government’s support to the working group that focuses on delivering and connecting renewable energy resources of Scottish island communities. Fergus Ewing joined representatives from the Islands Councils in Glasgow at a meeting of the Island Areas Ministerial Working Group, where he announced that he has received […]

  • Pacific Island Countries Discussing Pollution Prevention

    22 October 2014

    Representatives from 13 Pacific island countries and territories have gathered in Brisbane, Australia this week to review and update the Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL) strategy. This strategy, implemented in partnership by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), defines activities to protect the public health, […]

  • Sea Shepherd Volunteers Arrested in Faroe Islands

    21 July 2015

    Two volunteer crewmembers from a ship operated by the conservationist group Sea Shepherd, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands by Faroese police. The duo, identified as Susan Larsen of the United States, driver of the small boat named Farley, and Tom Strerath of Germany, navigator of the boat, were arrested at approximately 0900 local time on Monday […]

  • VIDEO: Role of Inland Waterways in Container Shipping

    18 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Tackling increased cargo volumes of containerized cargo is particularly challenging especially with respect to distribution of the cargo to their end recipients without causing congestion on roads and rail tracks. The Dutch found an efficient way of circumventing the congestion by resorting to its inland waterways. Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and […]

  • UK: Rolls-Royce Equipment for Iceman AHTS

    14 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has been awarded a £15 million contract by STX OSV to supply an extensive deck equipment package for an advanced anchor handling vessel to be operated by Iceman AS. The package, which is designed to improve operational safety, will include a new anchor handling frame (AHF) and a hydraulic […]

  • Island Offshore’s vessel to support Titanic dive

    27 April 2017

    Offshore vessel owners supporting the oil and gas industry have been hit hard by the lack of demand for their services caused by the oil industry’s downcycle and the oversupply of tonnage. Thus, the OSV players have started looking into other sectors such as renewables and fisheries to find work for their vessels. Norway’s Island Offshore, […]

  • Premier spuds Isobel Deep (Falkland Islands)

    9 April 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Falkland Oil and Gas Limited, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its license areas to the North, South and East of the Falkland Islands, has announced that the 14/20-1 ‘Isobel Deep’ exploration well was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on April 8, 2015. The well is located on licence PL004a, in which […]

  • Premier spuds Zebedee prospect (Falkland Islands)

    6 March 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) has announced that the 14/15-5 ‘Zebedee’ exploration well, off the Falkland Islands, was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on March 6, 2015. The well is being drilled with Eirik Raude semi-submersible drilling rig that arrived on site a few days earlier. The well is located on licence PL004b, […]