Gamesa’s offshore wind turbine prototype in Arinaga Quay, in Canary Islands, marked record-high power generation for wind turbines in Spain on November 2. The wind turbine produced 118.05 MWh of electricity, surpassing the previous record of 107.82 MWh, similarly achieved by other company’s product,
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
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
Stork Technical Services, the global provider of Asset Management Services in the Oil fit Gas, Chemical and Power industries, is attending the world’s leading maritime event, EUROPORT 2013. Over 30,000 maritime professionals from more than 90 countries are present at this event in World Port Rotterd
The Port of Wells main channel dredging program has officially commenced this week. The port’s dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel north of number 4 buoy, between buoys 4 and 2. All material dredged from these areas will be placed on the berm which is marke
Global marine terminal operator DP World and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), today signed an agreement that will see DP World provide management advisory services for the development of the Khorgos Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Inland Container Depot (ICD). DP World will also provide similar service
James Fisher Renewables, in partnership with Chemical Corporation, launched an innovative oil transfer system for the direct extraction and refill of offshore wind gearbox oils directly from a conventional access vessel. The Ship-to-Turbine (STT) system employs proven vacuum, preheating and filtrati
After several years as designer within the dredging industry, where they have created both pure split hopper barges, trailer suction dredgers with bottom doors as well as split type, FKAB Marin Design has recently improved the split barges design both in building price as well as operation wise. “Th
Sunergy Inc, announced that the famous Dredgemaster from Sierra Leone and the UK has joined the Sunergy Management Team as Director of Alluvial Mining in Sierra Leone and Liberia with a commitment to early profitability. “I am really pleased to have Dredgemaster on our management team. As part of ou
Paramarine software has been selected by Mojo Maritime Ltd. to support the design of a new dynamic positioning (DP) offshore construction vessel, the HiFlo-4 (HF4,) which will have applications for the tidal energy industry. The purpose of the HF4 is to reduce the installed cost of marine renewable
Green Marine Solution (GMS), a provider of professional marine services and specialist support to the offshore wind industry, has received GBP 450,000 from Northstar Ventures’ Finance for Business North East Accelerator Fund. “The funding received from Northstar is going to be used primarily to comp
The Training Institute for Dredging (TID) has developed a complete capacity building program for cutter operators. The training (3-7 March, 2014, Kinderdijk) will be performed with the use of a new generation extremely realistic cutter simulator. The modern dredging operator desk of the simulator is
The extraordinary shareholders’ meeting of Ackermans & van Haaren NV has on 25 November 2011 renewed the powers delegated to the board of directors to redeem shares for a period of 5 years. In the framework of these powers, Ackermans & van Haaren has concluded a liquidity contract with Kepler Cheuvr
