Construction is now underway on Liverpool2, Peel Ports’ £300 million in-river container terminal which will enable post-Panamax vessels of up to 13,500 TEU to call directly at the Port of Liverpool. A dredging operation to remove one million cubic metres of material from the seabed will be launched
The AXYS Team has announced that they will be exhibiting at the Renewable UK Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition in Manchester, June 12-13. They will be showcasing the WindSentinel – the world’s first commercially deployed offshore wind resource assessment system. WindSentinel buoys are currently
To avoid a repetition of the events that occurred as a result of the Kura River bursting its banks and in accordance with a presidential decree, the Ministry for Emergency Situations has delivered to Baku suction dredgers CSD-500 manufactured by Damen Dredging. The total length of the unit is 49.10
CEDA announces that the leading dredging event WODCON XX opened its doors on June 3, 2013. Here are some lines from the eminent speakers at this prestigious event. “In the future, the dredging industry has a crucial and constructive role to play responding to many of the future challenges with regar
Europort (November 5-8 2013, Ahoy Rotterdam) is without a doubt the most complete maritime exhibition in the world. Over 31,000 maritime professionals from all segments of the shipbuilding industry, from naval to dredging and from fishery to offshore, are brought together in one state-of-art exhibit
Last Saturday the cutter suction dredger “Susanna II” was baptized and handed over to its owner, dredging contractor Verboon Maasland. All members of the Verboon team were present with their families to celebrate the completion of the vessel. After the required speeches and the bottle of champagne a
LOGIC INSTRUMENT, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rugged mobile computers, pioneers on the high sea. Around the first offshore wind power plant in Germany, important environmental compatibility data are collected – with the rugged mobile computers from LOGIC INSTRUMENT the researchers ca
The preparatory work for large infrastructure projects often consumes an extraordinary amount of time, money and human resources and is not particularly cost-effective. Some of this inefficiency is caused by traditional procurement methods which bring contractors into the process after many key deci
International Dredging and Offshore Contractor Van Oord has chosen Sealink customised VSAT from Marlink to provide data communication services for three offshore rock placement vessels. The five year contract covers Marlink’s provision of end-to-end services and includes facility to provide ad-hoc c
CARIS and Kongsberg recently teamed up to conduct a five-day joint acquisition and processing workshop with Servicio de Oceanografia, Hidrografia y Meteorologia de la Armada (SOHMA) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thirty-five attendees from hydrographic organizations and survey companies from Argentina, Bra
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is enhancing the service it provides to industry through an interchange programme. MMO employees are visiting a range of organisations, delivery partners and devolved administrations to learn more about day-to-day and strategic activities, build awareness of
Uljanik Shipyard on 16th May delivered to the Luxembourg Company Jan De Nul S.A. Capellen D.D. Luxembourg yard 497 named “Bartolomeu Dias”. It is the second constructed trailing suction hopper dredger of 26,000 tonnes deadweight, length 147.6 meters and width 30 meters. The ship and the working equi
Dredge Yard has announced that it has delivered its heavy duty ball joints to Van Oord. The dredge ball joints are suitable for pipe inner diameter of 900mm and working pressure of 30 bar. Those ball joints are of heavy duty design for pumping water and sand for long distances. To assure high qualit
Alstom, a world leading developer and manufacturer of the full range of hydro products and services, including turbines, generators, control systems, hydro-mechanical equipment and balance-of-plant, has signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Tidal Lagoon Power Limited to design and build t
