UK’s Ardersier Port, which was one of the largest oil rig fabrication yards in the world, is now set to be transformed into Europe’s first fully circular energy transition facility.
After announcing its candidacy for the construction of an energy island in the Danish North Sea earlier this week, DEME is now separating from its parent company CFE by summer 2022. CFE’s board of directors announced today in a press release its intention to split the group into two separate listed
The Maritime and Port Authority Singapore (MPA) yesterday celebrated a major achievement with the completion of reclamation works for Phase 1 of the Tuas Port Project. MPA celebrated this milestone at a hybrid event that coincided with its 25th anniversary celebrations. The Tuas Terminal Project, of
HR Wallingford has released an article in which the company talks about how “cutting emissions by refining dredging practices and techniques is one of the most obvious areas for ports and harbours to make carbon savings, and how this can result in significantly lower costs and can sometimes provide
Central Dredging Association (CEDA), the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) and Vital Ports recently presented “Financing of Sustainable Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure” report. Together with B Capital Partners and Swiss Re, they explored what is needed in order to improve t
The energy transition is taking a more concrete shape with each passing day as witnessed in a week behind us that was full of announcements favoring the net-zero future coming from governments, across investment banks, all the way to private offshore energy companies.
The biggest challenge in the maritime environment for this generation is the energy transition. For centuries the focus of mankind was to sail and operate at sea in the most efficient way possible. All these years Bakker Sliedrecht has improved the vessel design with state-of-the-art-solutions to ma
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has signed a $92.5 million dredging contract for the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project 11. This is the first phase of the extensive, multi-phase Houston Ship Channel billion-dollar expansion and deepening program. According to GLDD, dr
New Damen’s cutter suction dredger CSD350 is on its way to Brazil. This new cutter suction dredger is a sister vessel to the dredger Amsterdam that was delivered to the Brazilian company Construtora Vale Verde in 2019. The Holanda is a fully dismountable, stationary dredger fitted out for one-man op
As the dust is settling in the aftermath of COP26, new developments in the offshore energy sector are laying the grounds for the net-zero future.
Earlier this month, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), along with other local and state officials, held a sod turning ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on the Houma Navigation Canal (HNC) Lock Complex. During the ceremony, which was
Peel Ports has signed an international sediment management pledge to more effectively manage the disposal of sediments as part of the necessary dredging of its ports and harbours. The initiative, from Navigating a Changing Climate (a Global Climate Action partnership) and SedNet (a European Sediment
ROHR-IDRECO Dredge Systems (Netherlands/USA, Germany, France) has just announced two new cutter suction dredge (CSD) models, the Hawk and Falcon, to its product line-up. Group CEO, Fulco Vrooland Löb, said: “With our roots in the wet mining industry, we have been building electrical dredges for deca
Memphis District Corps of Engineers Commander Col. Zachary Miller recently toured work in progress on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District Dredge Currituck. The Currituck is at Memphis District’s Ensley Engineer Yard where it’s getting a $9.6 million makeover by a team of master craf
