The cutter suction dredger Al Sakab, owned and operated by Huta Marine, at work. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. This dredger, built by IHC Beaver Dredgers, is the largest stationary dredger in the world. [mappress] Dredging Today Staff,
The world’s most expensive ocean liner, Queen Mary 2, is set to make its maiden call in the capital on 29th January. The AED3.22 billion luxury ship, built by cruise company Cunard, will dock in Mina Zayed before sailing with its 2,620 passengers for Kochi, India. Queen Mary 2’s stop in Abu Dhabi is
According to the public relations of an Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company, a senior oil official said that the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) plans to develop gas layers of Balal offshore oil field in southern Iran. Alireza Ghazi-Zahedi, deputy director of the company’s Lava
The UAE energy and oil & gas sectors are stepping up their 2013 Emiratisation efforts, as a score of major organisations prepare to sieve through thousands of Emirati job candidates at the country’s leading recruitment fair next week. The Tawdheef Recruitment Show takes place from 29-31 January at t
GAC Bunker Fuels Ltd, part of global shipping, marine and logistics services provider GAC, has become one of an elite group of global bunkering companies to be awarded the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2008 Management System Standard certification. The ISO 9001:2008 certificate awarded by Det
Tanker owners enjoyed a strong rise in earnings last month despite a downturn in activity. The Drewry Tanker Earnings Index, published monthly in the Tanker Insight report, recovered in the last month of 2012 to finish above the two-year average. However, vessel earnings are still far from comfortab
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announces that in connection with the replacement program approved by its board of directors for the general cargo fleet, the Company has sold on the evening of Wednesday 16th of January,2013 it’s general cargo vessel (Saudi Abha) for scrapping a
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Construction of the QR27 billion ($7.4 billion) New Port Project is on track and is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2016, a top official of the project has said. “Progress of the project is on schedule and at present about 10 percent of the construction work is complete while d 38
The dredging process for a new side channel leading directly to East Port Said commenced at January 15. The new channel will allow ships coming from the Mediterranean to enter the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), without hindering the Suez Canal convoys. Ships calling at the SCCT have taken adv
Naval and armed guard protection is working, but the seas off East and West Africa remain dangerous, warns IMB. Piracy on the world’s seas has reached a five-year low, with 297 ships attacked in 2012, compared with 439 in 2011, the latest International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) report revealed on Janu
In 2012, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations group dedicated to advocating for laborers around the world, announced that the Maritime Labor Convention will go into effect in August 2013 after Russia and the Philippines ratified it. Ratification of the convention required signing
MS Queen Elizabeth 2 Known popularly as (QE2) will be moved today to Drydocks World Dubai for undertaking classification checks prior to her renovation as a luxury floating hotel. Before her retirement to Dubai on 11th November 2008, the QE2 took regular cruises around the world as well as operating
Greatship Global Energy Services Pte. Ltd., a Singapore incorporated subsidiary of Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited has taken delivery of a mobile offshore self elevating drilling rig, Le Tourneau Super 116(E) – ‘GREATD
