On June 11th, 2010, twenty three months after placing the order, the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Charles Darwin’ was launched at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao (Spain). The godmother of the ship was Charlotte Putz-De Nul, daughter of Mrs Ghislaine De Nul, sister of Jan
The Algarve is undertaking the largest artificial refilling of beaches in recent memory, resorting to private and community funds to make up… [mappress] Source: theportugalnews, June 12, 2010;
Dredging work in the River Thames will create the UK’s most prolific port – operating around the clock, day and night. [mappress] Source: yellowad, June 11, 2010;
More than 20 years after it gave up on a new port in the Dollart Hafen, the north German port city of Emden is reviving plans for an… [mappress] Source: maritimejournal, June 11, 2010;
The environmental disasters this spring seem to know no end. Most recently, the United States is facing the largest oceanic catastrophe ever, as BP’s Deepwater Horizon continues to discharge thousands of gallons of oil into pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to suffocate marine life
This is the latest in the IADC series of concise, easy-to-read “management summaries”, which give overviews of essential information on specific dredging and maritime construction subjects. Facts About Environmental Monitoring explains why monitoring is necessary before, during and after most mariti
State-owned shipping company Sovkomflot is getting into the real estate business, investing as much as 9 billion rubles ($280 million) into… [mappress] Source: themoscowtimes, June 10, 2010;
An Bord Pleanála has today refused the Dublin Port Company permission to implement an expansion plan for the port. [mappress] Source: irishtimes, June 10, 2010;
Italian based civil contractor SOMIT s.r.l. has awarded a contract to HollandMT and FKAB for the engineering of a Dredge-X150SP. This is a self-propelled pontoon suitable for a Liebherr 984 excavator able to dredge on -18m water depths. The hull is designed according to Bureau Veritas rules as a hea
In July, Georgia will start works on construction of a new Black Sea port in Supsa, director of the Black Sea Product Ltd (BSP), owner of… [mappress] Source: trend, June 9, 2010;
ECT, EMO and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have made agreements for the further development of their commercial activities on the existing… [mappress] Source: portofrotterdam, June 9, 2010
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 62.4 percent of the shareholders have elected a stock dividend distributed in the… [mappress] Source: Boskalis, June 9, 2010
Danish company, RESON A/S, world-leading manufacturer of high quality underwater acoustic sensors, echo-sounders, multi-beam sonar systems, transducers & hydrophones, will be participating at the Western Dredging Association, Annual Dredging Seminar – WEDA30 & TAMU41. “Dredging Works for the Economy
More than half of the world’s population lives within 60 km of a coastline zone. [mappress] Source: wirelessfibre, June 9, 2010
