Tebma Shipyards, a Chennai based shipbuilding company, has announced that their latest dredger built for the Indian Navy is ready for commissioning. The vessel, being a self propelled grab hopper dredger, has the capacity to hold 300 cubic meters of dredged material and openable hopper bottom doors
UniSite Group, a leading supplier for comprehensive service as well as relevant items of dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine engineering, municipal engineering and environmental remediation projects, has taken an active part in Suez Canal Development Project. The company has delive
Atlantis has placed an order to Lockheed Martin to supply the company with AR1500 tidal turbine for the Meygen tidal project. The turbine ordered is AR1500 with the capacity of 1.5 MW. Lockheed Martin is tasked with the manufacturing of the steel turbine housing, the assembly of all the turbine modu
Atlantis, majority owner of the MeyGen tidal stream energy project, has executed a construction contract with global defence contractor Lockheed Martin, for the delivery of Atlantis’ new 1.5 megawatt AR1500 turbine to fulfil the company’s MeyGen project turbine supply obligations. The 18 metre rotor
Simply Blue Energy and Wave Hub have signed a contract to develop a wave farm off Cornwall. Simply Blue Energy aims to create the first UK’s wave energy farm using Seabased wave energy technology. The farm will be located at the Wave Hub facility approximately 16 km off Hayle on the north coast of C
Danish Yachts A/S have launched a new 27m Cat-SWATH crew transfer vessel at EWEA Offshore 2015. In 2013, the Skagen based shipyard at the northern most tip of Denmark delivered four revolutionary all-carbon-fibre 24m Cat-SWATH vessels to its client ‘Odfjell Wind’, which are currently operated by A2S
The Dutch dredging vessel Seine arrived at Damietta Port last week to initiate a major deepening operation of the access channel. Damietta Port Authority (DPA) heralded the new year with increasing port’s safe navigation at the access channel to 14 meters instead of the long declared 13,25 meters li
The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Dredging Suez Canal, has posted on its official facebook page the latest photos of the New Suez Canal dredging program. The project was launched by the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sis
News in Photos: New Suez Canal Dredging The New Suez Canal development program is moving ahead and is scheduled to be completed this August. GEM Bags $65.6M Contract in Qatar Gulf Earth Moving (GEM), a Qatar-based subsidiary of the Belgian Aertssen Group, has just won a […]
An innovative community renewables project in Orkney has received £1.35m from the Scottish Government’s Local Energy Challenge Fund. Orkney Surf ‘n’ Turf will combine electricity from 2 tidal turbines and a wind turbine on Eday, which often produce more power than can be used in the area. The excess
The Scottish government has granted GBP 1.35 mln in funding to Orkney Surf ‘n’ Turf community renewables project. Orkney Surf ‘n’ Turf project will combine electricity from 2 tidal turbines and a wind turbine on Eday, which at times produce more power than can be used in the area. The excess electri
Italdraghe SpA, Italy’s best known dredger manufacturer, has just been awarded a contract to build another Marina Master 8000 dredger for the United Kingdom. This will be the second dredger of its kind to be supplied to a UK marina owner requiring versatile, easily-manoeuvrable, precision dredging e
Oceana Energy team has visited Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) to inspect their turbine and to prepare it for another round of testing. Oceana Energy’s turbine was stored at ACEP during the winter. Re-deployment of the turbine is expected in July 2015. The company deployed their in-river t
Eye4Software B.V., specialized in developing GPS and GIS software for Windows, has released the latest version of its professional hydrographic survey package, the Hydromagic version 7.0. The main purpose of this software is to map the bottom of rivers, reservoirs, frac pits, ponds and oceans in 3D.
