Jan De Nul’s backhoe dredger Mimar Sinan and the split hopper barge Tiger have started its work at the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm site. The vessels are working on dredging and excavation for foundations and cable ditches. The underground cable and substation will be installed by the next summer,
Royal IHC (IHC) has signed a new contract for an Easydredge® 3,700 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for Tecnoimport and Empresa Constructora de Obras Marítimas in Havana, Cuba. The contract was signed in the presence of Mr Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of The Netherlands, and Mr Ricardo Cabrisas
The Kumul, the second custom-built ship for the ExxonMobil-operated US$19 billion PNG LNG project, completed loading its first cargo of the chilled fuel at the project’s jetty on Wednesday. Kumul recently named in a ceremony in China, is a 172,000 cubic metre, 290-metre- long LNG carrier, entering s
A design from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard for a 6,600 m3 LNG bunker vessel has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register. The design will be capable of supplying both small scale requirements and the current maximum expected requirements for large ships trading worldwide, according to a s
GTT, the French LNG containment specialist has secured an order for two new LNG carriers to be built at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. The liquefied natural gas vessels will be constructed at Hyundai’s shipyard in Ulsan for Korean shipowner SK Shipping, GTT said on Thursday. The delivery of
TBG Harlingen – Thecla Bodewes Group has just announced that the sea trials of the Boskalis’ new water injection dredger Terra Plana were successfully completed. The contract for the construction of the Terra Plana was signed on June 3, 2015 and the actual work on the dredger began in September 2015
The largest of the three Baltic nations, Lithuania is to receive another cargo of liquefied natural gas from Statoil’s Hammerfest LNG facility in Norway. The 155,000 cubic meters Arctic Aurora is expected to arrive at Höegh LNG’s FSRU Independence serving as Lithuania’s LNG import terminal in the po
BC Ferries held a naming ceremony on Thursday for the second and third SalishClass vessels at Remontowa Shipbuilding in Gdansk, Poland. The Salish Eagle and Salish Raven will be capable of running as dual-fuel on either liquefied natural gas (LNG) or ultra-low sulphur diesel. Using natural gas for t
China’s first LNG regasification terminal, Guangdong Dapeng LNG said it has recently received its 720th LNG cargo onboard the Q-Flex Onaiza. The Dapeng terminal, which is majority-owned by CNOOC, marked its tenth anniversary of operation on May 26. CNOOC holds a 33% stake in Guangdong Dapeng LNG whi
Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard has completed sea trials of the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Sommers’, the lead vessel of the TSHD 1000 series built for the FSUE “Rosmorport”. The Sommers, named after the island in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, was launched in January 2016. Having undergone
Rotterdam-based Chemgas Shipping’s new dual fuel coastal LPG-tanker Sundowner called Euroservices Terminal located at the outer port of Zeebrugge in Belgium for purging operations and LNG-bunkering on Tuesday.
Portugal’s Sines LNG terminal has on Wednesday, May 1, received its first liquefied natural gas cargo of the month from Nigeria.
Qatar’s Nakilat, the world’s largest LNG shipper, said its Q-Max LNG carrier Al Samriya recently transited around Cape of Good Hope for the first time, en-route to UK’s South Hook LNG terminal. The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. The L
Marine dredging and constructing contractor, Weeks Marine Inc., has ordered from Royal IHC a dynamic positioning and tracking (DP/DT) system and eco pump controllers for the trailing suction hopper dredger Magdalen. “The two efficiency enhancing systems, provided by our North American subsidiary IHC
