The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped self-propelled trailing suction-type hopper dredge on a rental basis for the removal and satisfactory disposal of shoal material in the Calcasieu River Bar Channel, Cameron Parish, Louisiana… Source: fbo.org
The Portland District Corps of Engineers intends to award a contract for dredging at the U.S. Coast Guard Facility at Tongue Point, Oregon… Source: fbo.gov;
A joint public-private project to dredge channels in the Three Bays area wrapped up this week… Source: Cape News, November 30, 2009
Stuck is an understatement. Stranded does it no justice. Marooned? Closer, but not quite… Source: Daily Press, November 29, 2009
The Norwegian government will not ask for any concrete emission targets for the shipping industry at UN’s climate change conference in Copenhagen, reports nrk.no. The Norwegians want IMO to pursue the emission targets for the shipping industry. Friends of the Earth Norway, Norges Naturvernforbund, l
Stratos Global Corporation, global provider of mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, announced it is upgrading Zakher Marine International Inc. (ZMI) vessels to Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband 150 (FB150) mobile broadband satellite service. With each FB150 system ZMI is deploying the popu
Singapore-based Swire Holdings has signed a multi-million dollar contract with an oil and gas company from Burma. Under the US$77 million contract, Swire will construct 150km of gas pipelines in offshore Burme. The project will begin in the first quarter of 2010 and take six months to complete.
Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say. The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was hijacked on Sunday, said the EU Naval task force (Navfor).
A second Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer has left the Clyde and is on its way to its home port of Portsmouth. BAE Systems employees from the Clyde yards gathered in the early morning to wave Dauntless off.
Responding to questions from Dredging News Online, a spokesperson for Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster said the company would not be affected by the financial crisis in Dubai. Earlier this week, Dubai Drydocks Group, of which well known developers such as Nakheel are a part, told cred
Hundreds of construction workers on the $43 billion Gorgon gas project will live on a luxury Norwegian cruise ship anchored off Barrow Island. Nicole Hodgson, spokeswoman for project operator Chevron, said yesterday up to 350 workers would be accommodated on the seven-year-old MS Finnmarken which ha
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has been granted an adjournment debate in the House of Commons… Source: Politics.co.uk, November 30, 2009;
Tons of sand is being removed from the harbor and deposited on the beach… Source: The Tribune, November 30, 2009;
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) rules are being implemented and single hulled tankers have been phased out. This would result in a large fleet of vessels going out of service by the year 2010-12. This has changed the mix of vessels that have been patronising the Co
