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  • PIRA: South America Joins Asia in Spot Price Support

    24 January 2014

    PIRA Energy Group reports that South America joins Asia in spot price support. U.S. production to bear burden of narrowing U.S. storage deficit. European storage outlook begins to morph. Specifically, PIRA’s analysis of natural gas market fundamentals has revealed the following: The gravitational center of LNG trading is firmly in Asia, and spot prices are […]

  • Scorpio Tankers boosts liquidity with four-ship sale and leaseback deal

    13 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Tanker owner and operator Scorpio Tankers has decided to sell and lease back three MR product tankers and one LR2 product tanker to China’s AVIC International Leasing.

  • Two new blade technologies from Edinburgh University researchers aim for renewable energy efficiency

    17 May 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    EPSRC has funded a collaboration between Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Bioinspired Engineering, Ignazio Maria Viola, and Senior Lecturer in Composites Design and Testing, Eddie McCarthy, which resulted in two new technologies that are expected to reduce unsteady loading, improve turbine resilience and reliability and decrease the levelized cost of energy. 

  • Balili River Cleanup Plan Receives Support (The Philippines)

    28 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Local residents in La Trinidad, Benguet, who compose 42 organizations have adopted the system of self-help in the revival of all tributaries of the Balili River. This was learned from Municipal Mayor Edna Tabanda who is assessing the various Balili River rehabilitation programs launched by various agencies and non-government organizations in the past years. Despite […]

  • AOWFL Seeks Local Content for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm

    22 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd (AOWFL), the company behind the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), has invited members of the regional business community to the second local supply chain event to be held at Chester Hotel, Aberdeen, on 9 September. Vattenfall, the sole owner of the wind farm, will provide a project update which will be […]

  • Watch Hill Marina Dredging Completed

    19 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Fire Island National Seashore’s Watch Hill marina is now open following successful completion of the maintenance dredging program. “The dredging completed in the Watch Hill channel will provide safe passage for ferries, emergency services, and private boaters for many summers to come” said Fire Island National Seashore Facility Manager James Dunphy. Portions of the navigation channel […]

  • Bangladesh: Government Reveals Plan to Save Four Rivers

    19 December 2011

    Government efforts to save the four rivers – Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag and Balu – flowing around the metropolis through restoring their navigability are yet to make any headway. Ceaseless dumping of wastes, haphazard dredging and encroachment on these rivers continue unabated. A recent survey on the wetland around Dhaka city says that all such lands […]

  • Keppel hands over fifth jack-up rig to Mexican client

    14 July 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) in the U.S., has delivered Uxpanapa, a KFELS B Class jack-up rig, to Mexico’s Central Panuco S.A. De C.V., a subsidiary of Mexico’s Perforadora Central S.V. De C.V. The rig was delivered by Keppel O&M’s wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel AmFELS LLC. It was christened on Wednesday at Keppel AmFELS’ yard […]

  • US Team Developing Mega Turbines Inspired by Palm Trees

    28 December 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    A US-based team of scientists plans to use a USD 3.56 million grant to develop wind turbines able to protect themselves in severe weather by folding in their rotor blades like palm trees in a hurricane. The team, led by Professor Eric Loth, Chair of the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will spend the three-year grant […]

  • USACE: Change of Command for Mississippi Valley Division

    6 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Maj. Gen. Michael C. Wehr will transfer command of the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser in a formal change of command ceremony September 7. The ceremony will be officiated by the Corps’ Chief of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite and will take place at […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    11 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (August 5 – 11, 2019).   Lamu Port’s First Berth Complete The LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) has announced that the first of the proposed 32 berths at the Kenya’s Lamu Port is now 100% complete.   CEMEX Go Innovation […]

  • News in Photos: The SHEP Kick-Off Event

    30 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Recovering the CSS Georgia ironclad scuttled on the Savannah River floor marks the first action undertaken under the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). Col. Thomas Tickner, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District commander, yesterday hosted this kick-off event at Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia, marking the beginning of construction on the SHEP. The […]

  • Metropolitan Beaches Commission Hearing in Revere

    6 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Metropolitan Beaches Commission will hold a regional public hearing on the state of the Metropolitan Region’s public beaches in Revere, Winthrop and East Boston on June 7th, at the Jack Satter House in Revere. Metropolitan Beaches Commission Co-Chair Senator Thomas McGee of Lynn, who has served on the Commission since its inception in 2007 […]

  • USA: Corps to Provide Report on Mississippi River Projects

    30 July 2013

    The Mississippi River Commission, or MRC, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a public hearing aboard the Motor Vessel Mississippi, at Riverside Park Landing in La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. At the hearing, the St Paul District commander will provide a summary report on the district’s projects […]

  • DCI to Raise Money Via Tax-Free Bonds (India)

    8 March 2013

    Dredging Corporation of India Limited  will raise Rs.500 crore through public issue of tax-free bonds of face value of Rs.1,000 each, said its chairman and managing director D.K.Mohanty Friday. India’s only dredging company in public sector is raising the money to acquire a dredger. It is one of the three dredgers being purchased by the […]

  • USACE: Mat Sinking Unit Completes Season

    17 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) has completed its scheduled work for 2014. During this season, the MSU has placed over 500 acres of articulated concrete mats on the banks of the Mississippi River. The MSU season is an annual mission that starts in the late summer months when […]

  • GPA Sees Record August Container Volumes

    19 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Georgia Ports Authority achieved an August record of 330,846 twenty-foot equivalent container units, marking an increase of 5 percent compared to August 2015. “August container unit volumes were the third highest in the Authority’s history, behind April and May 2015 at the height of diverted cargo from the West Coast,” Executive Director, Griff Lynch, […]

  • IHC Merwede Delivers DCI DREDGE XIX (The Netherlands)

    27 November 2012

    On Thursday 15 November, the delivery of the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, DCI DREDGE XIX, took place at Waalhaven in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The dredger was received by the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) Manager Mr YSR Murthy three weeks ahead of the contractual delivery date. IHC Merwede’s contract with DCI is for the […]

  • Helena Harbor Dredging Set for Late Summer

    22 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Officials with Helena-West Helena, Ark., announced recently that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, will fund dredging of Helena Harbor for the first time since 2015. “The Corps recently received supplemental funding from Congress and they have allotted $500,000 of that funding to dredge our harbor,” Helena-West Helena Mayor, Jay Hollowell, said. Under […]

  • Russia: Keel Laid for New Hovercraft SVP-50 at Khabarovsk Shipbuilding

    2 November 2012

    The Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Yard held, Nov 2, a ceremonial keel-laying for the new hovercraft SVP-50. This 50-passenger vessel is fully amphibious to provide for a seamless passenger transportation service. SVP-50 is purpose-built for navigation in not readily accessible areas. The craft can be used on drift ice, snow pack, sheet or brash ice, in polluted […]

  • USA: SECNAV Honors NAVSEA Activities

    31 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Eight activities of the Naval Sea Systems Command field activities were recognized Aug. 29, by Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) for outstanding accomplishments in energy and water management during fiscal year 2011. Award recipients will be honored Oct. 3, during a ceremony at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. The SECNAV Energy awards recognize outstanding […]

  • OOCL Takes Over Final 8,888-TEU Boxship Newbuild

    30 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has welcomed into the fleet the final 8,888 TEU class containership from a series of eight ordered from the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding shipyard, the OOCL Ho Chi Minh City. The containership was christened on Thursday at a ceremony held on Changxing Island in Shanghai and represents the last newbuilding to be received by OOCL this year. […]

  • Baton Rouge, New Orleans to Boost Container-on-Barge Ops

    8 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    The ports of Baton Rouge and New Orleans have been awarded a USD 1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) to enhance for container-on-barge services. The funds would be used to acquire specialized container loading equipment to increase efficiencies to the current container-on-barge shuttle service operated by SEACOR AMH between Baton Rouge […]

  • Australia: Myall River Dredging Plan in Limbo

    21 November 2012

    The future of a long-awaited Myall River dredging project is still murky, according to myallcoastnota.com. The Myall River Action Group has been waiting for almost a whole year to hear from the taskforce whether the Myall River will be dredged and when. Andrew Sharp, the Myall River Action Group member, stated: “We’re very disappointed that […]

  • Trump Appoints Kaiser and Owen to Mississippi River Commission

    20 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    President Donald Trump recently appointed Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser as the president of the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) and Col. Paul E. Owen as a member of the commission. Commission appointments are nominated by the President of the U.S. and vetted by the U.S. Senate. Kaiser is the commander and division engineer of the […]