At 8 & 9 December 2011, the Business Offshore Conference took place in Hamburg. Organized by Schiff&Hafen I Ship&Offshore, the first edition of the conference welcomed 140 delegates at the Hotel Hafen. The group of delegates consisted of German offshore professionals as well as delegates coming from
Abu Dhabi Ports Company (APDC) signed a MoU with Duisport in the presence of a high ranking trade mission from Germany. The signing, which took place at the Emirates Palace, was attended by Capt. Mohamed Juma Al-Shamisi, Vice President Ports Unit at the Abu Dhabi Ports Company and the trade delegati
Throughput of the Port of Ust-Luga in January-November of 2011 surged by 86.5 percent year-over-year to 20,129,000 tons. Shipments of imported vehicles increased by nearly twofold to 120,182 units. In November, the port’s terminals 2,396,000 tons of different cargoes, a 2.3 times growth from the sam
The port of Antwerp is to collaborate in further developing the port of San Pedro in Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa) over the next few years. San Pedro, the largest cacao port in the world, has 2000 hectares of vacant land that will be put into use in stages in the near future. Port of Antwerp […
IHC Merwede has been awarded a contract to deliver the environmentally friendly deep-water dredger, IHC Beaver® 4040, for Zhejiang Dredging (China). This innovative cutter suction dredger will be optimised to work on lake and reservoir dredging projects – and is unique in its class. Boundary breakin
HPA Hamburg Port Authority has announced tender for transport of dredged materials retrieved from the Port of Hamburg for use or disposal, to the landfill Francop silt or Feldhofe. The goal of corrective actions is the development of largely contaminated silt from Moorburg, loading on trucks or the
The first lengths of rail will be laid on the new land of Maasvlakte 2 this week. The first trains should be running on the 12.3-km railway line in ten months’ time. But before it gets that far, all kinds of activities have to be completed and delivered. Everything comes together in the autumn of [&
Milford Haven Port is the biggest port in Wales, the third largest in the UK, and is one of the largest oil and gas ports in northern Europe. With 25 per cent of the UK’s petrol and diesel provisions as well as up to 30 per cent of the UK’s gas requirements being handled through […]
The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads will be granted £800,000 to come up with new methods for removing the waterways sediment. The EU will invest in examining new possibilities for sediment dredging and reusing it therewith surpassing the necessity for determining disposal sites. The Broads Authority is a
Forty years ago a group of professionals in the dredging industry launched Terra et Aqua. One hundred and twenty-five issues later, it is clear how far-sighted these people were. According to the first editor, Terra’s “aims are to disseminate information useful to the civil servant, politician or fi
Dredging equipment is quite varied. From large to small, from simple to quite complex. The question often arises, what is the difference? Why choose one type of dredger over another? Is availability the only criterion? Or are there more reasons to choose a specific dredger? How does one balance cost
An agreement that will ensure £800,000 of European funding to assist in finding advanced ways to dredge the Broads was signed at the conference held in Rotterdam. A project known as PRISMA (Promoting Integrated Sediment Management) was introduced by the representatives from the Broads Authority and
The leading north east England-based engineering company IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB), part of IHC Merwede, has won the NOF Energy Innovation & Technology Award, for its work on the 2,500t J-Lay tower — one of the most versatile pipelay systems in the world, designed and built for Saipem for us
Phoenix Ltd., the company investing in the Bronka project started construction of pile foundation of Berth Number 5 as it was scheduled. The following expansion phase of the transshipment hub based near Big Port St. Petersburg commenced on December 7. The company plans to complete the construction o
