Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 14 – 20, 2019). Coast Guard Recovers Body of Volvox Asia Crew After two day of intensive search operation, the Indian Coast Guard earlier this week recovered the body of a crew member of the trailing suctio
Dredge Yard has just introduced the first 2019 addition to their dredger family – ECO 150s series. According to the company, these dredgers (Auger ECO 150, Plain Suction ECO 150 and Water Injection ECO 150) are compact, easily transportable and especially cost-efficient, have low fuel-consumption an
The stationary dredger SEEM 16-640ST Milady, with a steel hull and aluminium structure, has officially been launched at Merré Shipyard in France. Set to be delivered later this year, the Milady was built by Merré Shipyard for the Services Industriels de Genève based in Switzerland. The concept of th
The Fluxys-operated Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal in Belgium booked a cargo of LNG from Qatar.
The UK’s South Hook liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal booked a cargo of chilled fuel for the end-of-week delivery.
Finnish shipbuilding company Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) said it has signed a letter of intent with the ferry operator Kvarken Link for the construction of a dual fuel ferry.
Van der Kamp’s new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ecodelta was christened last Friday (January 11) in Rotterdam. According to the Port of Rotterdam, this is one of the few LNG powered trailing suction hopper dredgers in the Netherlands. The ship is a key component of the new contract entered
A new dredging vessel powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been christened in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. The christening ceremony was held on January 11 at Holland Amerikakade in Rotterdam, according to a statement by the Port of Rotterdam. The LNG-powered dredger, named Ecodelta, was built
French LNG containment specialist GTT said Wednesday it received an order from the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries for the tank design of two new 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas carriers. These two LNG vessels will be built on behalf of the Japanese shipping giant NYK. GTT said in a state
Monaco-based LNG shipper GasLog on Wednesday provided further detail on its charter deal agreed with Cheniere for two LNG newbuilds ordered at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea.
The successful sea trials of Royal IHC’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) D11 21 DE JULIO took place during the final week of 2018, at the Montevideo Port in Uruguay. This 4,200m³ TSHD was partly built at IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel in The Netherlands. The basic design and detailed
Russia’s first floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at the Kaliningrad province bordered by Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast has been inaugurated.
Marine contractor Leask Marine were engaged by Inyanga Maritime to support Minesto UK’s Deep Green project in Holyhead Deep, off Wales. The works consisted of mooring handling operations and the recovery of the micro-grid system (MGS) buoy for winter storage and service maintenance at Holyhead port.
Leask Marine has been performing a regime of maintenance & servicing operations with Magallanes Renovables engineering team on the ATIR tidal device. The ATIR tidal turbine was set up at the EMEC site in Orkney in September 2018, having tested a previous version of their technology in Scotland back
