Annual review of the global dredging market is provided by IADC as a service to all who are involved in dredging and maritime related industries and as part of its role to inform the public and other interested parties. The present review focuses on the situation in 2010 and was published in October
IHC Merwede has won the HME Maritime Innovation Award with its IHC Spud Guard® at the sixth annual Maritime Awards Gala. This Award is presented to the manufacturer of an extremely innovative product, which is relevant to the maritime sector and has sufficient sales and export potential. According t
From 8th to 11th November, 2011, RESON, a market leader in underwater acoustic sensors, state-of-the-art echo sounders, multibeam sonar systems, transducers, hydrophones, and PDS2000 software, will be exhibiting at EUROPORT 2011, at Ahoy in Rotterdam. RESON will be exhibiting their new specialised S
The RYA is advising clubs and training centres to undertake any required maintenance/navigational dredging activity before 1 April 2012. This is because as of 1 April 2012 all maintenance and navigational dredging activity will require consent through a marine licence and may attract a fee that coul
Local fisherman have hit out at plans to clear a Lancashire cockle bed with dredgers… (bbc) [mappress] Source: bbc, November 4, 2011
IWA is asking all waterway supporters to act now to secure the future of the Canal and River Trust. Things are at a critical juncture for the transfer of British Waterways’ managed canals and rivers into the Canal and River Trust. The money is everything. A good deal from Defra will deliver a signi
Dublin Port’s ‘draft’ masterplan which was unveiled to the public yesterday, includes a proposal to develop the first dedicated cruise termi… (afloat) [mappress] Source: afloat, November 4, 2011
Addressing the 4th Annual Med Freight Conference, APM Terminals Director of Port Investments for Europe and the Mediterranean, John Trenchard cited both long-term demographic trends and the expected introduction of larger vessels into regional Mediterranean trades as driving factors of port developm
VOSTA LMG to present a new, patented ball joint design at the Europort exhibition in Rotterdam. The revolutionary new design, based on GREENFORCE technology, provides full wear liner protection and will result in less power and fuel consumption, less CO2 emission, less wear and has the possibility t
After a successful tendering procedure managed by Anthony D Bates Partnership, which involved bids from seven international dredging contractors, Rohde Nielsen A/S have been awarded the maintenance dredging contract for Warrenpoint Harbour in Northern Ireland. The contract includes the dredging of t
Major works to prepare Portsmouth Harbour for the arrival of the Royal Navy’s biggest ever ships will start in the coming weeks… (portsmouth) [mappress] Source: portsmouth, November 3, 2011;
The benefits of £800,000 awarded to the Broads Authority earlier this year are being seen in Thorpe St Andrew at the… (eveningnews24) [mappress] Source: eveningnews24, November 3, 2011;
The split hopper dredger“Omvac Diez” has been handed over to its owner Canlemar after successful sea trials. The dredger has been built in Spain to a Spanish design yet has been fitted out with Dutch Damen dredging gear. The vessel has started its productive life already, doing a harbour maintenance
The Waterfront consortium, formed by Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and the TBI companies Synchroon and Koopmans Bouwgroep, is to realize the ambitious Waterfront project of the Dutch municipality of Harderwijk. Boskalis will execute all the civil engineering and underground infrastructu
