The French port of Brest has begun upgrading its quay areas to better serve the needs of the marine renewable energy industry.
Peru’s only liquefaction facility at Pampa Melchorita dispatched an LNG cargo to Spain late last month.
Skangas bunkered liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the tanker vessel Ternsund in the Port of Gothenburg, the first time Coralius operated in this port.
Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with LLC Onego Shipyard to build a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 2000. The vessel will be built by order of FSUE Rosmorport in Petrozavodsk (the Russian Federation) and will be the sixth dredger built under the design of the Dutch company Damen. C
UK Coastguard is currently responding to reports of a vessel explosion 2nm South of Dodman Point, Cornwall. Just before 1pm today, UK Coastguard received a call from a dredging vessel reporting that they’d had an explosion on board. “It is believed that a compressed aircylinder exploded and two of t
The Gate LNG terminal in the port of Rotterdam is to receive a fresh cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Statoil’s Hammerfest plant in Norway. The 140,000-cbm Arctic Discoverer departed from the liquefaction facility on Melkoya island on Tuesday and is scheduled to land at Gate around October
The dual-fuel trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River recently returned from successful sea trials, during which it sailed on LNG and its dredging equipment was extensively tested. The 8,400m³ TSHD, the second dredger in the DEME fleet equipped with dual-fuel engines, was officially handed ove
The Egyptian Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has signed a contract with Royal IHC for the design and construction of two custom-built 29,190kW heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredgers (CSDs). The vessels will have an overall length of 147.4 meters and provide a maximum dredging depth of 35 meters. In addi
France’s Dunkirk LNG import terminal, the country’s fourth regasification facility, received another cargo of the chilled fuel on Monday. This is the terminal’s second shipment within a month after the Arctic Lady delivered a cargo from Norway on September 19. Prior to that, the import terminal did
At least three liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from Qatar and Nigeria are currently heading to Western Europe, according to the port and ship-tracking data. The LNG cargoes are expected to land at terminals in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in the next seven days. The UK’s Grain LNG te
The Ukrainian Nibulon Shipbuilding and Repair Yard said in their latest release that they launched a high-capacity self-propelled СДС-15 dredger with a symbolic name Mykolaivets on September 17. According to the director of Nibulon Shipbuilding and Repair Yard, Dmytro Horbenko, the launched vessel i
The United Kingdom is due to receive another liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from the world’s largest producer of the fuel, Qatar.
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 25 – October 1, 2017). DEME Holds Naming Ceremony for TSHD Scheldt River The trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River was officially named two days ago at the DEME head office in Zwijndrecht, Belgi
The trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River was officially named yesterday at the DEME head office in Zwijndrecht, Belgium. The dredger was named by Mrs Veerle Hegge, the wife of Mr Bart De Wever, Mayor of Antwerp. The 8,400 m³ Scheldt River is the second dredger in the DEME fleet equipped wit
