CMB confirms that Bocimar International has sold the Capesize unit Mineral Libin (2006 – 173,999 dwt). The net sale price amounts to USD 53 million. The delivery of the vessel is scheduled between August 2009 and April 2010. The capital loss of approximately USD 2 million that will be realised on th
Méxicana de Dragados SA de CV, part of the Jan De Nul Group, has been awarded a contract for beach restoration at Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel in Mexico. The total contract value is Euros 45 million. The job consists of the dredging and reclamation of more than 6 million cubic metres of mate
A ship from Hartlepool is setting sail for the start of the Tall Ships Race 2009 in Poland. The nine-strong crew of the Black Diamond of Durham will be given a send-off from the town’s marina on Thursday. This year’s event, which begins in Gdynia, Poland on 5 July, takes place in the Baltic Sea.
Operators of a Spanish cruise ship hit by an outbreak of swine flu say the vessel is heading to Aruba, where passengers should be able to disembark. The ship, Ocean Dream, had docked at the Venezuelan island of Margarita, where more than 300 Venezuelans were allowed to leave. Tour operator Pullmantu
The remaining 11 dockers at the port of Great Yarmouth are to be made redundant, the Unite union has said. Eastport UK said the matter was confidential and its Great Yarmouth port manager Eddie Freeman said the jobs situation was “delicate”. At the end of April, Eastport UK made five dock workers re
consortium of Jan De Nul and Odebrecht has been awarded a dredging contract for deepening the Port of Rio Grande in Brazil from 14m to 16m in the inner channel and from 14m to 18m in the outer channel. The total contract value is US$101 million. After the extension of the breakwaters, this contract
Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) and Cambridge Consultants are proud to announce that Global Telecoms Business (GTB) has awarded its prestigious 2009 GTB Innovation Award to the two companies for excellence in the Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation category. The award recognizes the groundbre
A fishing boat has limped back to port after running into difficulties in the North Sea. The six crew on the Peterhead-registered Rosemount raised the alarm at about 0120 BST after beginning to take on water. They got into difficulties about 60 miles north-east of Fraserburgh.
Research by Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit (LMIU) shows that the widely used statistic that 90% of global trade is carried by sea, is inaccurate. The real figure is about 75%. The research has major implications for decision makers and analysts. The revised figure is based on a bottom-up calculati
The Russian ports of Novorossiysk, Primorsk and St. Petersburg are the most eye catching new entrants in the Rotterdam ranking of the largest European ports. They are listed according to the new objective throughput criteria of the latest ´Rotterdam Port Statistics´. At the same time it is a correct
Port Strategy magazine reports that the first phase of reclamation work at the UK’s Felixstowe South development has been completed, with 750,000 cubic metresof unsuitable material removed and 1.7 cubic metres of sand placed on site by Westminster Dredging, part of the Royal Boskalis Group.
Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the Baydaratskaya Bay Crossing project in Baydaratskaya Bay on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Federation. The client is the Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom, and the contract involves dredging a trench for an offshore pipeline and backfilling of the tren
Jan De Nul Group has signed an agreement with Sociedad Portuaria Terminal de Contenedores de Buenaventura SA (TC Buen) for dredging an access channel and turning basin for a new container terminal in the Port of Buenaventura, Colombia. The total value of the contract is around 50 million Euros. A to
Scandinavian liner shipping agency Safe Shipping is taking over the Hamburg Süd’s agency operations in Poland on 1 July. It takes over from Morska Agencja Gdynia. Safe Shipping has been acting for the Hamburg Süd Group in numerous other European countries, such as Hungary, the Czech Republic and Aus
