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  • Hellenic Cables to interconnect two Greek islands

    16 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Hellenic Cables, the cables segment of Cenergy Holdings, has been hired by the Greek Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) to deliver the electrical interconnection between Ionian islands of Kyllini and Zakynthos.

  • EU inks ‘Clean Energy for Islands’ deal

    26 June 2020
    Authorities & Government, Transition

    EU has completed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the Clean Energy for EU Islands initiative. Energy commissioner Kadri Simson has signed for the Commission alongside 14 member states. EU islands have the potential to pioneer the clean energy transition and this initiative puts them in the spotlight. Specifically, this can bring benefits […]

  • RLB Contracting Wins Spilman Island Deal

    7 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has awarded a small business contract in the amount of $2.6 million to RLB Contracting Inc, for replacement of the drop-outlet structures at Spilman Island Placement Area. “Spilman Island Placement Area provides capacity for maintenance material dredged from the Houston Ship Channel and Barbours Terminal Channel projects,” […]

  • Long Island Sound Bipartisan Legislation Announced

    21 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have announced their bipartisan legislation to continue to support the restoration of Long Island Sound passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, bringing it one step closer to full Senate passage. The legislation now heads to the Senate floor and the […]

  • Officials Highlight Importance of Long Island Sound

    29 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy,Congressman Joe Courtney and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed dredged material disposal site designation rule for eastern Long Island Sound.   In the proposed rule, the EPA recommended an environmentally suitable location to dispose of a portion of dredged material […]

  • USPA Works Hard on Restoring Inland Waterways

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is continuing its work on restoring the guaranteed depths on inland waterways in the country. A 3,65 meter draft was achieved recently in the Kamyansky Reservoir on the Dnipro River, making possible to open the passage for cargo and passenger vessels in this area. According to USPA, the dredging […]

  • Mackley Wins North Portsea Island Contract

    25 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Mackley Construction Ltd has been chosen to deliver the next phase of coastal defenses which will protect more than 4000 homes and almost 500 businesses in North Portsea from the risk of coastal flooding. According to the Portsmouth City Council’s latest release, the next set of defenses, the fourth of five phases which make up […]

  • Hayling Island Beach Nourishment Progressing Nicely

    25 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    The maintenance dredging operations in Chichester Harbor Approach Channel and nourishment of the Hayling Island are progressing nicely, according to the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership – ESCP. After securing funding from the Environment Agency, Havant Borough Council started this week with the beach nourishment of the Eastoke frontage. Material for this operation is being dredged […]

  • Hayling Island Coastal Protection Job Complete

    30 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    This spring’s beach management activities at Hayling Island which consist of recycling beach material from Gunner Point and the Coast Guard Revetment to the Eastoke frontage are now complete, Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership (ESCP) reports.  Contractor Les Searle Group moved over 33,000m³ of material for Havant Borough Council, making impressive progress in just three weeks. […]

  • GCWA to Dredge West Crab Island Channel

    8 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA) is pushing ahead with dredging works on the Gold Coast, ensuring vital transport links remain open for the city’s marine industries. “Dredging is starting in the West Crab Island Channel in the section from the Ephraim Island bridge down to the intersection with the North Channel,” CEO Hal Morris […]

  • Pea Island Restoration Project Halfway Through

    5 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Barnhill Construction crew is halfway through with the habitat restoration activities on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Partners at the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the contractor are excavating sand behind the Oregon Inlet Terminal Groin in order to improve habitats for migratory birds. Sections within a 3-acre area will be dug out to […]

  • Damen DOP250 Creates New Island in Haringvliet

    22 November 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Damen Dredging Equipment was once again put to the test during a land reclamation project in Haringvliet, the Netherlands, for the contractor Martens en Van Oord. The Haringvliet – a large water body just south of Rotterdam – was closed off the North Sea in 1970 to protect the Low Lands. Recently, the locks – […]

  • Vocus to Connect Tiwi Islands with Darwin (Australia)

    4 September 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Vocus Group will, in collaboration with the Northern Territory Government, construct a new fibre optic cable link between Darwin and the Tiwi Islands in Australia. For the first time, communities located on Melville and Bathurst Islands will have access to a reliable, high capacity and trusted fibre optic link to the mainland, the company said. […]

  • Rosneft strikes oil off Sakhalin Island

    1 October 2019

    Russian oil firm Rosneft has made an oil discovery offshore the Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East.

  • Island Drilling bags rig contract with Faroe

    3 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore driller Island Drilling Company has been awarded a contract with Faroe Petroleum Norge to drill one well in the Norwegian Sea. 

  • VARD to Build OSV for Island Offshore (Norway)

    3 May 2013

    Vard Holdings Limited, formerly known as STX OSV,  has entered into a new contract with Island Offshore for the construction of one advanced offshore support vessel of Rolls-Royce design. The value of the contract amounts to approximately NOK 400 million. Delivery is scheduled from Vard Brevik in Norway in Q3-2014. The hull of the vessel will be delivered from […]

  • BP Extends LWI Contract with Island Offshore

    22 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore, a leading name in global Light Well Intervention (“LWI”) activities, has been awarded a major contract extension with BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. The two-year contract extension, covering 2014 and 2015, has been awarded to Island Offshore and the North Sea RLWI Alliance, which operates three monohull vessels specially designed for well intervention […]

  • Island Innovator Tilts in Hanøytangen. Workers Evacuated

    31 May 2013

    Island Innovator semi-submersible rig, on a yard-stay in Hanøytangen, Norway, has been evacuated after it tilted 4 degrees, a local news site has reported. According to Bergens Tidende news portal, 63 people have been taken off the facility in a peaceful manner. Around 4 o’clock this morning, the rig , docked at Hanøytangen yard, took […]

  • MacGregor Provides Subsea Crane for ‘Island Intervention’

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a contract to deliver a 250-tonne SWL active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea crane for the 120m construction vessel, Island Intervention. The crane was ordered by Marine Procurement Ltd, part of the US company Edison Chouest Offshore. An existing vessel operated by the US/Norwegian partnership between Edison Chouest Offshore and Island Offshore requires […]

  • Talisman Hires Island Challenger PSV (Norway)

    21 January 2013

    Island Offshore, a Norwegian owner of offshore support vessels, announced that it has secured a contract for its platform supply vessel, the MV Island Challenger. Island Challenger will complete her present charter with Statoil Petroleum AS in September 2013, where she has been a part of Statoil’s PSV pool since she delivered from the yard […]

  • Rockhopper Secures Extension of Licences in Falkland Islands

    2 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Rockhopper, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, has received notification that The Falkland Islands Government has granted a one year extension (to 18 November 2013), with no further work commitments, of Production Licences PL023 and PL024, in which Rockhopper has a 40 per cent interest. Rockhopper also notes that Production Licences PL003 […]

  • Eastern to Build Staten Island Ferry Trio

    5 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group has won a contract to construct three double-ended 4,500 passenger ferries for The City of New York Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and the Staten Island Ferry Division. The three Staten Island-Ollis Class Ferries are from a design provided by Elliot Bay Design Group, and will operate between the boroughs of Staten Island and Manhattan. The first […]

  • BAM: Wallasea Island Jetty Completed (UK)

    6 August 2012

    Crossrail has taken another step towards the creation of a new 1,500 acre RSPB nature reserve with the completion of a new 180 metre jetty at Wallasea Island in Essex. The jetty will receive in the order of 4.5 million tonnes of material excavated during Crossrail’s tunnelling operations in London. The jetty, constructed by BAM […]

  • Australia: Great News for Wavebreak Island Project

    21 September 2012

    The international company behind the proposed $4.9 billion cruise ship terminal and associated development adjacent to Wavebreak Island in the Broadwater says it can create an even better break for surfers at what is known as TOS (The Other Side) on South Stradbroke Island. Sembawang of Singapore Global Project Underwriters’ President and CEO Ric Grosvenor, […]

  • USA: Sanibel Island Dredging Kicks Off

    18 June 2012

    Dredging project begins on Sanibel Island, reports msn.com. Crews from Florida Dredging and Dock will be removing sand from Blind Pass. Approximately 120,000 cubic yards of sand will be removed. That sand will be used for Bowman’s Beach renourishment. The project is being funded through a grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and  […]