Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured new contracts from repeat customers with a total value estimated at about $186 million.
MOTAS Dredging Solutions has successfully designed, fabricated and shipped a cutter ladder for a large cutter suction dredger. The ladder has been custom designed inhouse by MOTAS engineers in the Netherlands and will be installed on the dredger, currently under construction. Fabrication and partial
OSD-IMT, a specialist consultancy in ship design for newbuild, refit and conversion projects, has just unveiled their new dredging support vessel design. “The experienced naval architects at OSD-IMT have a practical mindset. Their priorities are safety, crew comfort and delivering a custom designed
A revised Port of Port Hedland development plan – supporting a 41 pct increase in capacity – has been endorsed by the Western Australian Government. The comprehensive review, undertaken by Pilbara Ports Authority, is set to enable the growth of iron ore exports to 660 million tonnes per annum, allow
The beneficial placement project to recharge areas of Mersea Harbour, using dredged materials from Harwich Haven Authority’s £120 million channel deepening initiative, has been completed successfully. The recharge work was carried out on behalf of Harwich Harbour Authority by a joint venture of Roya
Jan De Nul Group has placed an order for a hybrid unmanned surface vehicle (USV) from the Norwegian Maritime Robotics as the first step towards unmanned and autonomous offshore survey operations.
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has just released this very interesting video named ‘Timeline of the Ever Given crisis management’. With a length of 400 meters and a width of nearly 60 meters, this giant ship had been wedged in the Suez Canal since March 23, 2021, blocking all shipping traffic. For t
Queensland Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Mark Bailey, has announced the completion of a dredging project on the Gold Coast Seaway and Broadwater. The $4.65 million dredging project, which will improve safety for small and medium sized vessels crossing the Gold Coast Seaway bar, was finished
In just a couple of minutes, the new sea lock in IJmuiden will be officially opened by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. The new sea lock – being 70 metres wide, 500m long and 18m deep – was completed earlier in 2021 by the OpenIJ consortium. Over the last couple of months, the new IJmuiden
Dutch UXO consultancy NjordIC has opened an office in Houston, Texas, to support the development of the U.S. offshore wind sector. NjordIC USA LLC will offer UXO consultancy services for developers and contractors of offshore wind projects to strengthen the offshore UXO service industry in this regi
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announced last week the work plans for two recently enacted laws – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; and the 2022 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act. These will provide the USACE Norfolk District with an additional
The Port Authority of Seville has completed the regeneration of the coastline of the Doñana Natural Area with sediments extracted during the last dredging campaign for the maintenance of the navigation channel. In total, the authority has deposited 62,000 m3 of sand, which has allowed the recovery o
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) and National Maritime Dredging Company (NMDC) entered into a strategic alliance today. The alliance will focus on areas not limited to capital dredging works, project development on BOT basis, operate ports as managers, participate in the public, private partnersh
The COVID-19 pandemic may have transformed the way we live and work; however, the offshore energy sector seems to find its way through these challenges. A flashback to the week behind us reveals that new roadmaps to achieve net-zero goals are developed across various sectors, while new projects are
