Antwerp Port Authority has asked Witteveen+Bos to investigate the possibility of deepening and relocating the Europaterminal quay wall. The purpose of deepening the Europa Terminal is to accommodate ships with a larger draught. Hydraulic, sedimentological and morphological studies were conducted as
Jan De Nul’s largest cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck has completed its first mission in Mauritania with success. In the port of the capital Nouakchott, the vessel was working for developer ARISE Mauritania, on the deepening of the access channel, the port basin and the new berth alongside
Dutch dredging company Boskalis has taken delivery of its largest-ever consignment of drop-in biofuel which will be used to power two hopper dredgers on upcoming projects in northwestern Europe.
Although the year draws to a close and embraces the holiday spirit, the global energy transition shows no signs of slowing down. In the week behind us, we witnessed that governments spare no expense to support clean energy projects and step up the energy transition game.
Methanol as an Energy Step Towards Zero-Emission Dutch Shipping (MENENS) maritime consortium has been awarded a €24 million (about $27 million) grant to conduct research into accelerating the use of methanol as a low-carbon fuel within the shipping industry.
The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance has identified a pipeline of over 750 projects that European industry is undertaking to roll out the hydrogen economy on a large scale in Europe.
Construction work at the Lekki Deep Seaport project site in Nigeria has reached 74.15 percent as of November 28, 2021. According to the latest Lekki Port Construction Completion Status report, dredging and land reclamation works have reached 85.38 percent, while the building of quay walls has reache
UK’s Ardersier Port, which was one of the largest oil rig fabrication yards in the world, is now set to be transformed into Europe’s first fully circular energy transition facility.
After announcing its candidacy for the construction of an energy island in the Danish North Sea earlier this week, DEME is now separating from its parent company CFE by summer 2022. CFE’s board of directors announced today in a press release its intention to split the group into two separate listed
The Maritime and Port Authority Singapore (MPA) yesterday celebrated a major achievement with the completion of reclamation works for Phase 1 of the Tuas Port Project. MPA celebrated this milestone at a hybrid event that coincided with its 25th anniversary celebrations. The Tuas Terminal Project, of
HR Wallingford has released an article in which the company talks about how “cutting emissions by refining dredging practices and techniques is one of the most obvious areas for ports and harbours to make carbon savings, and how this can result in significantly lower costs and can sometimes provide
Central Dredging Association (CEDA), the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) and Vital Ports recently presented “Financing of Sustainable Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure” report. Together with B Capital Partners and Swiss Re, they explored what is needed in order to improve t
The energy transition is taking a more concrete shape with each passing day as witnessed in a week behind us that was full of announcements favoring the net-zero future coming from governments, across investment banks, all the way to private offshore energy companies.
The biggest challenge in the maritime environment for this generation is the energy transition. For centuries the focus of mankind was to sail and operate at sea in the most efficient way possible. All these years Bakker Sliedrecht has improved the vessel design with state-of-the-art-solutions to ma
