Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contactor gets dredging works contract at Turk, Finland.Main site or location of works is Pori. Total final value of contract is 4 060 000 EUR. Pori is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the Gulf of [&
On Saturday 24th July 2010 the scale model (1:50) of the powerful self-propelled ocean going rock cutter dredger ‘D’Artagnan’ was formally handed over by DEME’s C.E.O. Alain Bernard to the Panama Canal Authrorities (ACP) during a ceremony in the Miraflores Locks Visitor Centre. The scale model will
BBucharest. The 1858 described by the Leipziger mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius Mobius loop is generally regarded as the symbol for … [mappress] Source: Wirtschaftsblatt, July 26, 2010;
Today’s discussion of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project of new Baku International Sea Trade Port in Alat settlement… (abc) [mappress] Source: abc, July 24, 2010;
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has successfully closed an inaugural USD 450 million US Private Placement Notes program with 26 institutional investors in the United States and United Kingdom. The significantly oversubscribed program consists of three tranches with maturities of 7, 10 and 12 years a
The Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoRA) will invest approximately € 25 million in the creation of a site of almost 5 hectares to accommodate the future expansion of Botlek Tank Terminal (BTT). The land will be gained by filling in the south western corner of the Botlek dock with some 600,000 m3 of sa
Coastal communities in Lincolnshire are being protected from flooding as part of a £30m project. The Environment Agency is using a dredger to pump sand onto 20km (12.5 miles) of beaches. The aim of the Lincshore scheme is to raise beach levels to prevent waves going over the sea walls. The agency sa
Belgian company DEME Group, which operates a fleet of over 80 dredging vessels, another 200 auxiliary vessels and specialised equipment, has appointed Wilhelmsen Ships Services as specialized supplier for maintenance products and technical gases globally Wilhelmsen Ships Service has started the cont
JF Hose have opened a large bore hose division at its Leyland factory specialising in production of hand-built rubber hoses for dredging, dockside oil and heavy industrial applications in sizes 2″ to 40″ diameter and lengths up to 12 metres. The factory has on-site rubber compounding, calendering an
Klaipeda Free Economy Zone (LEZ) has signed an agreement with a new investor Heidelberg Klaipeda for allocation of more than ten million … By Danuta Pavilenene (baltic-course) [mappress] Source: baltic-course, July 20, 2010;
The Port of Hamburg has examined the possibility of deepening the Elbe River, following the first call of the largest containership handled… (bairdmaritime) [mappress] Source: bairdmaritime, July 20, 2010;
State Enterprise “Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk” has received the loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development … [mappress] Source: ted.europa, July 20, 2010;
Terminal 2 at Malta Freeport is to be expanded. The North Quay will be extended from 480 metres to 668 metres and the West Quay from 118 … [mappress] Source: worldnews, July 16, 2010;
COSCO Pacific, a port operator subsidiary of China’s state-owned shipping giant China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO), has signed a US$4.2 billion deal to take over management of Greece’s container port Piraeus. Cosco has signed a 35-year lease and will spend US$707 million to upgrade port facilities, bu
