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  • Azerbaijan: SOCAR Inks MOU with Swiss Foster Wheeler

    13 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      On July 12, SOCAR and Swiss Foster Wheeler signed a memorandum of understanding. The document was signed by SOCAR Vice-President for strategic development Mr. Tofig Gahramanov and Chief Executive Director of Foster Wheeler Mr. Marco Maresco. The MoU involves the establishment of a joint venture on the material and technical base of SOCAR’s Oil […]

  • Upper Ocklawaha Basin Scheme Continues

    13 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Florida Department of Environmental Protection hosted a public meeting last week to further the water quality restoration of five water bodies in the Upper Ocklawaha Basin: Lake Harris, Palatlakaha River, Trout Lake, Lake Yale and Lake Carlton. “The expertise provided by stakeholders and residents is crucial to the restoration process,” said Tom Frick, director of […]

  • Damen Wins Best Paper Award at WODCON 2016

    24 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    At the WODCON 2016 held last week in Miami, USA, Damen has been awarded the “Best Paper Award”. The paper on dredge pump design, written and presented by Mr Klaas Slager, is about efficient dredge pump design. In total some 120 presentations were held over the 4-day WODCON conference. During the closing ceremony held on the […]

  • IADC: Spotlight on The Mud Motor

    12 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) recently released a new article titled The Mud Motor: A beneficial use of dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development. An innovative approach to beneficially re-use dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development was tested by a ‘Mud Motor’. A Mud Motor is a dredged sediment disposal method in […]

  • AML to Equip PRIC New Icebreaker

    28 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    The Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) has selected AML Oceanographic’s Moving Vessel Profiler as the underway profiling system for their new icebreaker, Xuelong 2. This is the second contract for the deep water, underway profiler MVP300 secured through AML’s local agent, Laurel Technologies Company of Hong Kong, within the last four months. The solution […]

  • DEME’s GSR Contracts Normand Reach for Nodule Collector Trials

    5 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract with Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR), for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Reach. The contract will start in 4Q 2018 and has a duration of 4-6 months. The vessel will be mobilized from Europe with the mining vehicle “Patania II”, support equipment and containers, before sailing to […]

  • CCOM at UNH Partners with FarSounder

    18 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire has added FarSounder as a partner in their Industrial Associates Program. As the globally recognized experts in 3D Forward-looking Sonar technology, FarSounder gives the students a new layer of information for their studies. In addition to providing students […]

  • Korean Coast Guard Takes Saab Seaeye Falcon ROV

    30 November 2017
    Equipment

    The Korean Coast Guard has ordered a Saab Seaeye Falcon remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for undersea investigations and research. The order follows the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry in 2014, resulting in the deaths of 304 passengers, that generated a need for more response resources including underwater robotic vehicles. “The Falcon was chosen for […]

  • Chinese Underwater Robot Completes First Task

    28 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    China’s unmanned submersible Qianlong No.2 has completed sea trials and delivered its first exploration mission in the southwest Indian Ocean. The 3.5 meters long and 1.3 meters high autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) was designed and developed by  the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang Institute of Automation. The sea trial campaign took approximately 3 months and covered about 218 square […]

  • Brazil: Petrobras Finds No More Traces of Oil in Santos Basin

    6 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Petrobras announces that no more traces of oil were found in the sea during overflights carried out this morning in the Carioca Nordeste area, in the Santos Basin. Therefore, in accordance with the procedures laid down in the Emergency Plan and with the knowledge of the Navy, Ibama and ANP, contingency actions have been demobilized. […]

  • Brokers: New Times Shipbuilding Wins Bulker Pair Order

    18 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Chinese New Times Shipbuilding has been tied to an order for up to four bulkers, according to the latest report from Intermodal Research and Valuations. The deal is said to be in a  letter of intent (LoI) stage. The order reportedly includes two firm 280,000 DWT ships and options for two more newbuildings. The duo, if confirmed, is […]

  • STX France Unveils New Sailing Ship Concept

    9 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    STX France has unveiled a new sailing ship concept to reduce environmental impact and save energy.

  • DredgeFest Louisiana Approaches (USA)

    13 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    DredgeFest Louisiana workshop, organized by the Dredge Research Collaborative, is scheduled for January 11-17, 2014, in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The first Dredgefest was held in NYC, one month before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. DredgeFest Louisiana is a symposium, field expedition, and intensive design workshop about the human manipulation of sediment and the soft […]

  • Deltares: New Report on Coastal Risks Presented

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. National Research Council has issued a new report on coastal risks along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts of the United States. The report is written by a panel composed of a number of U.S. scientists and one non-U.S. member, Ap van Dongeren of Deltares. The panel calls for a national vision for coastal […]

  • Get Ready for DredgeFest Great Lakes Event

    29 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    DredgeFest Great Lakes event about the human manipulation of sediment on North America’s fourth coast, the Great Lakes, will be held in two Minnesota cities, Minneapolis and Duluth in Fall 2015. The event is organized by the Dredge Research Collaborative, in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture, […]

  • Nave Galatea Conducts Venetian Lagoon Surveys

    1 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Nave Galatea, Italian Navy’s coastal hydrographic unit, is currently engaged in geodetic and topographic surveys in Venice and Marghera for the 2014 Idro-Oceanigraphic Campaign. These two areas are characterized by peculiar tidal rhythms and subjected to evolutionary dynamics, such as subsidence (sinking of land) and eustatism (sea level rise),fluvial sediments and the dynamics of coastal […]

  • Dredge Meeting at Camp Perry in Port Clinton

    18 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Ohio Lake Erie Commission (OLEC) will hold its next quarterly meeting today, at 10 a.m. at Camp Perry in Port Clinton, OH. During the meeting, the commission will discuss and vote on dredge material grant proposals provided by OLEC’s Dredge Research and Innovation in Farming Team (DRIFT). At the event, there will also be updates […]

  • Impact Subsea in Distribution Agreement with Deep Tide

    10 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Impact Subsea has signed a distribution agreement with Deep Tide Technology. Deep Tide Technology is located in Shanghai, China and is focused on the provision of technology to the marine scientific research and engineering sectors. Deep Tide Technology will provide additional support to the Impact Subsea sensor user base in the area. Ben Grant, managing […]

  • ECA Delivers Underwater MCM Systems to Two Navies

    21 September 2016

    ECA Group has delivered several underwater mine counter measure (MCM) systems to two navies, Kazakhstan being one of them. The system is entirely based on specialized robots, and mines are detected using sonar fitted either on autonomous underwater vehicles or on surface drones, while avoiding the mother ship to approach the mines. The different robots can […]

  • MBARI Marine Chemist Gets Ewing Medal

    26 July 2016

    The American Geophysical Union (AGU) awarded the Maurice Ewing Medal to MBARI marine chemist Peter Brewer. This medal is given annually to recognize “significant original contributions to the ocean sciences,” including “the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation, as well as outstanding service to the marine sciences,” MBARI explained. Over the past four decades, Brewer […]

  • Magseis to shoot seismic in North Sea

    29 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Magseis has been awarded a contract by Hess Denmark ApS for seabed seismic acquisition in the southern part of the North Sea.

  • Chengxi Adds Five Dolphin 64 BCs

    18 February 2014

    CSSC Chengxi shipyard Co., Ltd. and Shandong Landbridge Group have entered into a contract for the construction of five 64,000 DWT bulk carriers. The vessels, designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI), belong to the energy-efficient, eco-friendly Dolphin 64 series. Dolphin 64 ships feature perfectly-optimized hull lines, combined with the electrical fuel injection […]

  • China: Sanfu Shipyard Bags Order for Four MPVs

    24 January 2013

    Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. has secured an order from a Danish shipping company Nordana to build four 12,100 DWT multi-purpose heavy lift vessels. The new vessels with lifting capacity of 500 tonnes will be built according to a new energy-efficient design of heavy lifters that Nordana developed in cooperation with Sanfu Shipyard and […]

  • Nordana Orders Heavy Lifters from Sanfu Shipyard (China)

    24 January 2013

    Nordana, a Danish shipping company, has placed an order for the construction of four 12,100dwt multi-purpose heavy lift vessels with Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. The new vessels with lifting capacity of 500 tonnes will be built according to a new energy-efficient design of heavy lifters that Nordana developed in cooperation with Sanfu Shipyard […]

  • WavEC to collaborate with ASDF for marine renewables

    22 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    WavEC Offshore Renewables has signed a memorandum of understanding with Americas Sustainable Development Foundation (ASDF) to collaborate on the development of marine renewable energy projects.