The launch of the world’s largest cruise ship has been voted the most exciting cruise ship innovation in a new survey of cruise trends released February 11. The annual Cruise Holidays Cruise Trends Survey voted the Royal Caribbean’s 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas as the best thing to hit the high
Mariners are advised that a maintenance dredge of Sparkes Marina in Chichester Harbour on the south coast of the UK will commence Monday 15 February 2010. Dredging will be undertaken by the 22m backhoe dredger Witton Two, which will be towed to site by the 19m tug Wilgard.
Stena Line is building a new harbour in Loch Ryan in Scotland. The investment is on SEK 1 billion, approximately EUR 100 million, and the construction is estimated to take around 20 months. “The harbour we are now trafficking in the Stranraer is situated very far into the Loch and it is very shallow
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (Nasdaq:EGLE) announced that it has taken delivery of two additional vessels, Thrasher and Avocet, from its newbuild program. The addition of these two vessels brings Eagle Bulk’s total on-the-water fleet to 32 vessels.
Following her predecessors, the “AIDAblu” will rely on MaK propulsion engines built in Germany for her European voyages. As she entered the Hamburg, Germany, harbor on February 9, 2010, AIDA Cruises’s newest addition to the fleet, “AIDAblu” sailed right past the Caterpillar Marine Power Systems head
Turkey’s privatisation administration, OIB, has announced that it will be selling the rights to expand and run central Istanbul’s cruise ship port, Galataport. The port is owned by state-owned port operator Turkiye Denizcilik Isletmeleri. Turkish broker, EFG Istanbul Securities, will act as advisers
RATTLESNAKE POINT — Without Jason Thibodaux’s help, the Rio Grande would have a hard time making it past this sediment-choked desert flood plain. [mappress] Source: Albuquerque Journal, February 14, 2010
An Aberdeen-based offshore industry company has predicted it could create 140 jobs if it can meet new business targets. Sigma Offshore has announced it will launch a major push of a mooring system for oil and gas production vessels at a key Australian energy event in March.
The government has chalked out a Tk 12,000 crore project for dredging more than 300 rivers within the next eight years, as the length of navigable waterways in the country nearly halved in just two decades. [mappress] Source: The Daily Star, February 15, 2010
US Amry Corps of engineers has launched a dredging tender to maintain Bayou Freshwater. [mappress] More info: fbo.gov;
While the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the Point at Emerald Isle gained beachfront. [mappress] Sourcecarolinacoastonline:,February 12,2010
The island city-state’s size has increased by over 20 per cent since the 1960s and demand for sand for lucrative land reclamation and development projects is higher than ever. [mappress] Source:telegraph,February 12,2010;
Yemen and Dubai’s DP World plan a major expansion of Aden’s container port, betting on growth in the country despite Al Qaeda, instability and Somali pirates, officials said. [mappress] Source:maritimenews,February 12,2010;
In good news for contractors nationwide, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that the contractors who dredged the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) are not liable for damages caused by Hurricane Katrina (Ackerson et al. v. Bean Dredging LLC et al.). [mappress] Source:blr,February
