In order to better promote the dredging industry, DredgingToday.com – owned by the Dutch media company Navingo BV – is working on a new product named the Cutter Suction Dredger Vessel Directory. The CSD Vessel Directory is aimed to provide the industry with a compact useful overview of operating cut
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Interview: Adwen’s 8 MW Turbine an Arrow to Hit 100€/MWh by 2020 Target
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Interview: Adwen’s 8 MW Turbine an Arrow to Hit 100€/MWh by 2020 Target
DBR has delivered its off-line fuel treatment system for the topside of Veja Mate offshore wind farm’s substation, which is currently under construction in Belgium. The containerized system is located between two storage tanks of 75m³ each and the day tanks of three grid diesel generator sets and th
The Sas van Vreeswijk consortium has won a contract for the construction of the 3rd chamber Beatrix lock and the widening of the Lekkanaal. The consortium includes BESIX, Heijmans, Jan De Nul and investors RebelValley and TDP, supported by Martens en Van Oord, specialized in earthmoving, and Agidens
French subsea installation company Louis Dreyfus TravOcean has ordered two Saab Seaeye Leopard remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for touchdown monitoring and support. The Leopard work vehicle comes equipped with eleven thrusters and iCON intelligent control system, expected to provide TravOcean with
Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard, part of United Shipbuilding Corporation, held today the launching ceremony for the 1000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Sommers’. The dredger comes as the first in a series of three TSHD 1000 vessels that the shipyard is building for FSUE Rosmorport. The TSHD 1000 was
Bureau Veritas has issued its first Approval in Principle for an Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC) to a 1MW plant developed by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO). The plant will be installed off the coast of South Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, in the South Pacifi
Windcat Workboats has won the Renewable Energy Health & Safety Award 2016 with its WindGrip system. The award winner was announced on 27 January in Birmingham, on the eve of the 12th annual RenewableUK Health & Safety Conference. This award scheme, devised by RenewableUK and the Crown Estate, aims t
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered four more Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes from Konecranes for the Port of Savannah, Georgia. The crane purchases, along with the ongoing Savannah Harbor deepening, anticipate the opening of an expanded Panama Canal, set for this year. The Savannah Harbor Expa
The Lyngby-based start-up CEKO Sensors Asp is launching an optical accelerometer which could detect early signs of malfunctions in blades and potentially lead to reduced O&M costs, according to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The sensor can withstand extreme environments, and it contains
Kinewell Energy has re-designed an existing offshore wind farm in a case study which demonstrated that its new software, KLOC, could have saved the developers 3% of the installed cable cost had the technology been available when the wind farm was designed. The North East of England based company use
MMT, a Sweden-based marine survey services provider, has won a contract from DCNS for the ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) NEMO project. The project is jointly developed by DCNS and its partners with purpose to characterize the geophysical and geotechnical context of the area of an offshore po
A&P Falmouth has won the contract to refit Wello Oy’s Penguin wave energy device ahead of its Wave Hub deployment later this year. A&P Falmouth is to conduct maintenance operations on Finnish wave energy developer’s Penguin wave energy device, before the scheduled summer deployment at Wave Hub test
