Seeking to maintain protections established by the New Jersey Legislature nearly 200 years ago, the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee advanced legislation (A-1089) yesterday to prohibit the Department of Environmental Protection from approving any dumping of dredge spoils on or around i
Marine technology provider Sonardyne has acquired Ontario-based underwater imaging and inspection specialist 2G Robotics. 2G Robotics will join the Sonardyne group of companies, while remaining an independent business and brand. Jason Gillham, 2G Robotics’ founder, will continue to lead the company
Having heard from a number of Iowa farmers, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst recently met with the Assistant Secretary of the Army, R.D. James – who oversees all aspects of the Army Corps Civil Works program, including flood control and dredging – to stress the need for USACE to fund a key dredging project o
Coconut charcoal has been identified as the likely cause of last year’s fire on board the containership Yantian Express.
NYK has placed an order to build a second LNG-fueled pure car and truck carrier with Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.
Dredge Yard and their sole agent in Sri Lanka recently won an order for a standard cutter dredger (CSD) ECO 300. The order was placed in the last quarter of 2019 and earlier this month, the dredger was successfully delivered to Colombo, Sri Lanka. The company said in its latest announcement that the
Oil major BP saw its quarterly profit drop amid weaker environment despite higher production during the period.
Siemens Gamesa has doubled the order intake in the offshore segment in 2019 compared to 2018, partly due to the company’s strongest ever results reported in the last quarter of the calendar year. The world-leading wind turbine manufacturer saw the order intake in the offshore segment double to 3,343
Ocean Infinity has established a new marine technology and data company – Armada. Armada will initially add fifteen marine robots to Ocean Infinity’s current fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles. According to Ocean Infinity, each unmanned surface robot will serve a wide range of industries by bei
Lithuanian company AB Klaipedos Nafta has been appointed as the operator of an LNG terminal in the Brazilian Port of Açu.
Subsea services company DeepOcean said it will relocate its existing UK base in Darlington to the new Feethams House development. Employing over 100 specialists in the town, DeepOcean expects the move to happen in the coming months. The company also has a centre of engineering expertise and offshore
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has opened its first office in Nagasaki, Japan. This is the second office the company has opened in Asia and will compliment Atlantis’ presence in Singapore. The primary function of the new entity, which is called Atlantis Operations Japan (AOJ), will be to manage the construct
Dutch tank storage company Royal Vopak has completed the divestment of its oil terminal in Algeciras in Spain.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District awarded a $4.675 million contract to Weeks Marine on January 14 for the Arecibo Harbor maintenance dredging in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Under the agreement, Weeks Marine of Covington, Louisiana, will be responsible for dredging approximately 110,00
