The Water Resources Department has begun using imported machinery on an experimental basis to desilt South Buckingham canal. According to officials of WRD, the desilting is part of the improvement work being undertaken on the 13-km stretch between Okkiyam Madu and Muttukadu under the Jawaharlal Nehr
The Al Safliya LNG carrier, with a capacity of 210,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal February 27, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubi
Van Oord’s largest self-propelled cutter suction dredger Athena was named and launched at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk on 12 February last. The Athena is the largest ever cutter suction dredger built in the Netherlands for a Dutch dredging company. What is more, the Athena is one of the la
In yet another move to procure the best equipment for the expansion project, the D’Artagnan, the most powerful self-propelled heavy duty … (classiccruises) [mappress] Source: classiccruises, February 14, 2011;
Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered from stock a CSD500 to Kazachstan. The cutter suction dredger has started on its first job, the creation of a new irrigation channel. The standard dredger has been fitted out with several options before leaving the Nijkerk yard. The CSD500 is a modularly buil
IHC Merwede announces naming and launch ceremony of the 24,000kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger, ATHENA, on Saturday 12 February 2011. This is a unique event because the ATHENA is the largest cutter suction dredger built in The Netherlands for a Dutch dredging company. Moreover, the ATHENA be
In 2010, Jan De Nul Luxembourg S.A., a subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group, ordered two new 14,000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredgers. This week, an agreement was reached for the construction of a very large fallpipe and mining vessel, a sister vessel of the ‘Simon Stevin’. In this way, the group kicks
The Al Mayeda LNG carrier, with a capacity of 266,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal February 10, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubic
The Arctic Princess LNG carrier, with a capacity of 147,200 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s Dragon terminal February 8, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. BG and Petronas between them have contracted for the full capacity at Dragon LNG’s Milford Haven site over the nex
The Umm Slal LNG carrier, with a capacity of 266,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal February 7, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubic m
The Hamburg based company, FAIRPLAY TOWAGE has sold its deepsea-tug “FAIRPLAY IX”. Fairplay has the custom of re-using their ships’ names… (towingline) [mappress] Source: towingline, January 28, 2011
The Al Rekayyat LNG carrier, with a capacity of 216,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal February 2, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubi
An excavator formed an unusual yet highly effective partnership with a dredging vessel on the Lincolnshire coast in England last summer. Working on the Lincshore project, the Hitachi ZX470LCH-3 crawler excavator and trailing suction hopper dredger, Vlaanderen XX, have helped to ensure that future ge
Congo is getting a very special meaning for the DEME-Group (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering), since the new flag ship of the DEME-fleet is being named ‘Congo River’ and since only recently DEME signed a contract with the Régie des Voies Maritimes (RVM) of Congo for dredging works to b
