DEME’s new dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Scheldt River’ was successfully bunkered with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at Brunsbüttel Ports yesterday. Approximately 85 tonnes of the environmentally friendly fuel was loaded, making this the largest LNG bunkering operation in Germany so far,
Belgian dredging specialist DEME said that its second LNG-fueled trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River was bunkered with the chilled fuel at Germany’s Brunsbüttel Ports on Monday. About 85 tonnes of LNG fuel was loaded to the dredger, making this the largest LNG bunkering operation in German
LNG shipping giant Teekay released a time-lapse video showing its first Arctic liquefied natural gas carrier, the 172,000-cbm Eduard Toll transiting the Northern Sea Route. Teekay took the delivery of the Eduard Toll late in January. It is the fourth of 15 Arc7 LNG carriers being built for the Novat
Mediterranean Shipping Group (MSC) and Onorato Armatori signed a contract on Sunday with two units of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation to build four LNG-ready roll-on/roll-off luxury cruise ferries. The contract signed with Guangzhou Shipyard International and China Shipbuilding Trading incl
Norwegian salmon producer Nordlaks says it is building the world’s first wellboat equipped with liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion and a battery pack. The wellboat, developed by Norway’s NSK Ship Design, will carry live salmon and trout for Nordlaks. According to a Nordlaks statement, the vessel
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 5 – February 11, 2018). Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Underway The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the c deepening project is officially underway as contractors began dredging Contract “A
GAC Russia, a unit of the Dubai-headquartered GAC Group, has won a contract by the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG export project in Russia. Yamal LNG has appointed GAC Russia to manage its fleet of ice-breaker tankers at Sabetta port where the liquefaction facility is located for the next three years. U
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just posted this amazing image from 1962 of the drag arm of their dredging vessel Goethals, which operated from 1937 to 1982. From a distance, the Corps’ hopper dredger looks like most any other vessel. Thing that makes it different is the
Turkey commissioned on Wednesday the country’s second floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at a port in Dörtyol, Hatay located on the country’s Mediterranean coast. The MOL FSRU Challenger, the world’s largest FSRU, arrived in Turkey in November last year following delivery to its owner o
The number of liquefied natural gas (LNG ) carriers transiting the expanded Panama Canal is reportedly expected to rise 50 percent by September. The expanded canal received 60 LNG tankers in the last quarter of 2017 and soon expects to handle one LNG vessel per day, Reuters reported on Wednesday cit
Belgium’s Fluxys on Wednesday said that its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the port of Zeebrugge has unloaded and reloaded fewer cargoes of the chilled fuel in the last year when compared to the year before. The Zeebrugge terminal received in total 17 cargoes of LNG in 2017. Unloads almost
Boskalis Westminster NV has just released a short video of the self-propelled mega cutter suction dredger Helios. With a total installed power of almost 24,000 kW, a total pumping capacity of 15,600 kW and a maximum cutter power of 7,000 kW, the dredger Helios is one of the most powerful dredgers of
Royal IHC has completed the substantial renovation of the self-propelled cutter suction dredger HUTA 14, owned by Saudi Arabian Huta Marine. The vessel is already undertaking operations after final tests were successfully completed last week on the CSD, said IHC. The renovation project was accomplis
A keel laying ceremony was held this week for a tanker with liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion at China’s Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding. The intermediate product and chemical tanker is the fourth of six LNG-fueled vessels ordered by the partners in the Swedish Gothia Tanker Alliance, Furetank, Älvt
