A cross-Channel ferry impounded by safety inspectors amid concerns about its safety has been told it can sail. The Celtic Link Norman Voyager was detained at Portsmouth on Thursday after it failed basic safety tests.
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiary, Keppel FELS Brasil, has secured contracts from Noble Corporation (Noble) to upgrade and repair two of Noble’s Brazil-based drillships for US$304 million (S$421.6 million). The scope of work covers the fabrication, repair and replacem
The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) has said that it is confident that the country’s fishing sector would continue to report growth in 2009 despite enduring a spate of typhoons in the last four months of the year. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said that the fisheri
DUBAI – Abu Dhabi’s National Marine Dredging Co or NMDC, said Monday it won a 1.5 billion U.A.E. dirham ($408.7 million) contract to build a 63.5-kilometer canal in the U.A.E.’s largest emirate… Source: Maktoob, November 23, 2009;
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., was awarded on Nov. 18, 2009, a $5,559,750 firm-fixed-price contract for the maintenance dredging, Wilmington Harbor Outer Ocean Bar, Brunswick County, North Carolina… Source: Defpro, November 23, 2009;
Marshfield – Boats bottoming out and tilting over toward their heaviest side in Green Harbor during low tide… Source: Marshfield, November 19, 2009
Five environmental groups sued today to block Army Corps of Engineers plans to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel to 45 feet, arguing that the agency’s plan violates federal and state environmental protection laws… Source: Delaware Online, November 19, 2009
THANE: In a unique incident of its kind, the Mumbra police seized a dredger boat along with suction machine on Sunday evening to unearth an unlawful sand dredging racket off the coast of Mumbra… Source: Times of India, November 20, 2009;
The Japanese government is ready to disburse Rp 6 billion for the procurement of dredging boats for the South Sulawesi provincial government in 2010… Source: Tempo Interactive, November 20, 2009;
A joint venture of VolkerStevin Marine and Westminster Dredging has been named as preferred contractor for the design and construction of the Siadar Wave Energy Project on the Isle of Lewis… Source: Construction News, November 20, 2009;
MONSTER, Netherlands — On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding… Source: AFP, November 20, 2009
AHMEDABAD: Adani Group arm Mundra Port and SEZ will develop non-LNG port facilities at Hazira in South Gujarat. The group will commission 13 berths for bulk cargo and containers that will be developed in phased manner… Source: The Econimic Times, November 20, 2009
Qatofin inauguration to give exports a fillip… Source: Gulf Times, November 19, 2009;
Whangarei superyacht interiors company Specialist Marine Interiors has scored its biggest-ever contract, which will provide more than 150,000 hours of work for the company and create jobs. The project – a complete interior fit-out for an overseas-based ‘mega-yacht’ over 70m long – will bring new mar
