Hydraulic backhoe dredger Simson was christened Saturday at the Wilhelmina Quay in Rotterdam. The christening ceremony was performed by Mrs D. van Dam-van der Meer, wife of Mr Bart van Dam, who resigned as managing director of MerweOord (the Van Oord family business) on 1 December last. The Simson i
SBM Offshore announced that a letter of intent has been received from Petrobras for a lease and operate contract of the Company’s existing FPSO Espadarte for a period of 18 years on the Baleia Azul field offshore Brazil. The FPSO Espadarte will be disconnected from its current location at the Espada
Following an Adjournment Debate at the House of Commons on off-shore dredging, led by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart, a government minister has answered a series of questions… Source: Graham Stuart, December 18, 2009;
EPA discusses dredging, bioremediation plans. The city’s toxic lakefront is getting closer to being repaired to make way for redevelopment… Source: Suburban Chicago News, December 19, 2009
Ras Al Khaimah is going to open its first dry dock facility within a few months, an official has said. “Al Jazeera Dry Dock is going to be functional by March-April 2010… Source:Emirates Business, December 20, 2009;
The Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru disclosed this at a meeting with management staff of the office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Mineral Resources Development in his office at Alausa, Ikeja… Source: Sun News,December 19,2009;
Independence (LCS 2) 11th vessel delivered in Austal USA’s 10-year history Fabrication has started on twelve of the twenty-eight modules that will make up this 127-metre trimaran design. Six of the twenty-eight modules are currently being outfitted with ships equipment such as gas turbines, generato
THE Australian Maritime College’s (AMC) Maritime Transport Policy Centre (MTPC) and the AMC’s National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability have teamed up to research on what impact climate change will have on Australian ports… Source: Shipping Industry, December 17, 2009
Lean times lie ahead for companies on the hunt for maintenance dredging work, with the real effect of the economic downturn not hitting their balance sheets until next year and beyond… Source: Port Strategy, December 18, 2009;
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal judge in Green Bay has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make 20 companies and governmental units share in the massive costs of cleaning up the lower Fox River… Source: Associated Press, December 17, 2009
Hauraki Gulf tribes and environmental groups are unhappy about a plan to dump dredged spoil on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island… Source: New Zealand Herald, December 18, 2009
The Barents 2020 cooperation project, involving some 100 Norwegian and Russian experts, on safeguarding petroleum activities in the Barents Sea has now been concluded. At a conference in Moscow, the experts presented their recommendations in front of more than 200 representatives from industry and a
An Air Force Orion has intercepted an illegal fishing boat catching valuable toothfish in the Southern Ocean. In a statement Foreign Minister Murray McCully and Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley said the boat named Carmela and was flying the Togolese flag.
Cambodia and Vietnam signed a bilateral deal Thursday that will allow greater access to each other’s port facilities, an agreement both sides said would boost trade across the border. The deal means that ships from Cambodia will enjoy unlimited access to Vietnamese ports on the Mekong, and vice vers
