Larry Penny, East Hampton’s director of natural resources, said on Tuesday that he was shocked during a Jan. 29 meeting when representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would be at least three years before the Montauk Harbor Inlet and a portion of the harbor itself got the thorough d
In real life, professionals were able to see how QPS Quinsy software in combination with multibeam and laser scanning facilitates inspections of quay walls and other water borders. Last week, several demonstrations were given with co-operation of the Rotterdam Port Authority. [mappress] Source: Hydr
The £6.4m Welsh Assembly Government-funded scheme is set to see the construction of a new rock breakwater above low tide level, rock groynes, and rock revetment to protect properties in the town. [mappress] Source: Cumbrian News, February 10, 2010;
THE State Opposition has announced a $21 million funding package to protect Launceston from future flood threats and clean up the ailing Tamar River. [mappress] Source:examiner,February 11,2010;
The insurance regulator of Shanghai will boost shipping insurance, pensions and health insurance to help the city become a leading global financial and shipping center by 2020, the Shanghai Daily reported. Shipping insurance will further support the development of the city’s maritime industry.
The European Parliament has backed proposals to ban the trade in bluefin tuna in a bid to prevent the stock from being fished to extinction. The vote in favour of a trade ban – passed by a show of hands on Wednesday (10 February) – comes as the European Union attempts to forge a common […]
Wärtsilä has extensive experience in providing long-term operational and management services, enabling performance optimisation for about 1000 similar engines installed in ships and land-based power plants all over the world. Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has
Call it the battle of the titans. Royal Caribbean today announced it would move one of its largest, most amenity-filled cruise ships, the 154,407-ton Liberty of the Seas, to Barcelona in 2011, setting up a head-to-head confrontation with the equally giant flagship of rival Norwegian Cruise Line, the
Nick Clegg will pledge to turn disused shipyards into wind turbine production centres, should the Lib Dems win power. The party says 57,000 jobs could be created in cities hit by unemployment with renewable energy also boosted.
On 8 February, the first ocean-going vessel, the ‘Star Leikanger’ from Singapore, arrived at the new Broekman DistriPort quay. The Port of Rotterdam Authority has invested € 13 million in the new quay, to double the terminal’s capacity.
Jan de Nul’s new mining and fallpipe vessel Simon Stevin has departed for Australia for its first two rock dumping projects: a free span correction on the Pluto pipeline in 80m of water, and the construction of a pipeline crossing for the Reindeer pipeline over the Pluto pipeline.
Amawaterways, USA, has announced the construction of a second ship on the Mekong River as part of its “Vietnam, Cambodia & the Riches of the Mekong” programme. The as-yet-unnamed new build is expected to be delivered in the first half of 2011. When completed, the ship will join the ‘La Marguerite’ i
Her Majesty the Queen named and launched the trailing suction hopper dredger WILLEM VAN ORANJE on 10 February 2010. The ship is being built for Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. Boskalis is celebrating its centennial in 2010, and this was the
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, is supporting the Baltic Sea Action Group in its rescue mission to save the Baltic Sea. As a business with operations in the Baltic Sea, and being strongly engaged in developing a range of environmental solutions, Wärtsilä is comm
