DP World’s UAE Region Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Mohammed Al Muallem, said that the dynamic changes in the shipping industry and the diversification of developing GCC economies underpin the growing efficiency of the region’s supply chain. In his address to the “Seatrade Shipping an
Coda Octopus will hold a one day workshop in St. Petersburg, Fl. demonstrating Echoscope® 3D sonar technology on December 5th. Applications such as: – rapid inspection of harbor walls, vessel hulls, piers and bridges, and sea beds – Subsea IRM- Decommissioning, etc. – Salvage operations – Underwater
A consortium comprising of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Informati
The last steel pipe pile of the Lae Tidal Wharf Phase I Project in Papua New Guinea was successfully driven down recently, marking the full completion of the pile-sinking task of this project. There are 387 steel pipe piles having been driven for this project. The whole construction was free from ac
In the context of Flemish Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Hilde Crevits’ port trade mission, a visit has today been made to the crucial Soai Rap project and DEME’s trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Uilenspiegel’ that has been engaged to carry out the work. The Soai Rap project is being carrie
Jan De Nul: New Parallel Runway for Brisbane Airport (Australia) On Thursday, 10 October 2013 the Brisbane Airport Corporation announced the construction of the 300 ha platform for their new parallel runway. UK: New Medmerry Sea Defence Scheme Unveiled The Environment Agency is celebrating an impo
Fundy Tidal Inc. and Clean Current Power Systems Inc. entered into an agreement to test and demonstrate a 3.5m diameter Clean Current tidal turbine as part of a Tidal Power System (TPS), including energy storage and system controls that enable balancing of power production with community load (TPS p
Welltec has today entered into an agreement to establish a purpose-built manufacturing facility in Denmark’s energy capital Esbjerg. The facility is expected to be operational at the end of 2014 with a staff of 25-35 employees. The new facility will increase Welltec’s manufacturing capacity within t
Users of CARIS Easy View, a freeware program that allows users to view spatial data in a wide range of native vector and raster file formats, can now download a new sample dataset to use with the software. The latest sample data is from a survey conducted by students from the Maritime Institute Will
Leighton Offshore has been awarded another project by Qatar Gas after successfully delivering the replacement of their SPM 1 floating hoses earlier in the year. Leighton’s scope of work For Qatargas Phase 2 will include: – Floating Hose change out works on SPM 2, including flushing of SPM system, in
At the fourth National Delta Congress, the prestigious American Franz Edelman Award was handed out to the Dutch consortium who won the award in April 2013 in Texas for the project ‘Economically Efficient Flood Standards to Protect the Netherlands against Flooding’. In the presence of Minister Schult
CARIS has long included support for Inland Electronic Navigational Chart (IENC) products in its software and has been closely involved and supportive of the Inland ENC Harmonization Group’s (IEHG) work. CARIS S-57 Composer and CARIS HPD, the desktop and database solutions for electronic chart produc
Users of CARIS Easy View, a freeware program that allows users to view spatial data in a wide range of native vector and raster file formats, can now download a new sample dataset to use with the software. The latest sample data is from a survey conducted by students from the Maritime Institute Will
CARIS has long included support for Inland Electronic Navigational Chart (IENC) products in the software and has been closely involved and supportive of the Inland ENC Harmonization Group’s (IEHG) work. CARIS S-57 Composer and CARIS HPD, the desktop and database solutions for electronic chart produc
