On Saturday December 31st, the new backhoe dredger ‘Peter the Great’ was launched successfully on the Ravestein shipyard in Deest, the Netherlands. The pontoon was built for the account of DEME NV and its Russian partner NDC (Northern Dredging Company Ltd), part of the PST Group. The Dutch shipyard
To tow the new gigantic off-shore wind turbines now being developed in Europe far out to sea, a Norwegian company has devised… By Susan Kraemer (cleantechnica) [mappress] Source: cleantechnica, December 19, 2011; Image: Windflip
IHC Merwede has announced that it has recently secured orders for advanced vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of €200million. The latest agreements confirmed by IHC Merwede include: a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7; an engineering and components packa
The Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane was developed pri-marily for operations involving wind farms, and it has since proved its value in that sector many times over. The most powerful telescopic crane in the world has now also mas-tered its first commitments on the high seas – and has shown itself to
IHC Merwede has been awarded a contract to deliver the environmentally friendly deep-water dredger, IHC Beaver® 4040, for Zhejiang Dredging (China). This innovative cutter suction dredger will be optimised to work on lake and reservoir dredging projects – and is unique in its class. Boundary breakin
Siemens announced the start of sale for the new gearless SWT-6,0 wind energy turbine at the EWEA offshore conference 2011 in Amsterdam. (thspace) [mappress] Source: thspace, December 12, 2011; Image: siemens
G&G International has awarded Enerpac B.V. the contract to supply high pressure hydraulic equipment for the 30 Transition Pieces of the Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm. The Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm, located in Borkum (Germany) is currently being developed by German Groups EWE and ENOVA Energiesysteme G
MTU received an order for eight Series 4000 Ironmen gensets from the China-based Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (ZPMC), a heavy-duty equipment manufacturer. The gensets will power two 99m multi-purpose vessels owned by the Dutch company Boskalis which owns one of the biggest and most mode
HR Wallingford, the international hydraulic and environmental engineering consultancy, has acquired UK-based DRL Software. DRL Software develops environmental monitoring software with coastal, offshore and estuary applications. Their DRL-Sediview application is used by dredging companies, environmen
The naming and launch ceremony for the 13,000kW stationary cutter suction dredger, SHANTI SAGAR XVI, took place on 6 December 2011 at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands. IHC Merwede is building the ship for Mundra Port Special Economic Zone Ltd., which is part of the Adani Group
IXSEA introduces a new version of the DELPH geophysical software suite. This major 2.9 release introduces a number of new tools and functions to simplify survey acquisition operations and boost side-scan sonar, seismic or sub-bottom profiler and magnetic data processing and analysis. Whilst being al
The UK’s Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, has visited the Port of Felixstowe, the country’s largest container port, to see it take delivery of its latest consignment of new cranes. Whilst at the port, the Secretary of State met with senior management of the port, bef
The research team of Deutsche WindGuard Engineering GmbH has managed to reach flow velocities of 100 m/sec in its wind tunnel. It allows research with Reynolds numbers of more than 6,000,000. Dr. Knud Rehfeldt, CEO of German WindGuard Engineering GmbH said that the wind tunnel fulfills all the requi
On 30 November 2011, Van Oord performed the naming ceremony for its new Damen Multi Cat 3213 ‘Oceanus’. The Oceanus is the biggest Multi Cat ever built by Damen Shipyards and the first of its type. A sister vessel ‘Cronus’ is to be delivered April 2012, one month before the contractual delivery date
