Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announces that 70.19 percent of the shareholders have elected a stock dividend distributed in the form of ordinary shares. As a result, 3,284,415 new ordinary shares will be issued today. The admission of these shares to trading on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam is required
On May 13, CHEC won the bids for Lot 1 and 2 of the regulation project of Port Mole in Libreville, Gabon, with a contract value of some 120 million US dollars and a construction period of 360 days. Located in the center of Libreville, capital of Gabon, the project includes two lots: Lot 1 […]
On May 14, CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. won the bid for Lot SG-03 of Phase 1 of the ZDT coal terminals in the Binhai zone of Yancheng Port in Jiangsu Province, with a contract value of 252 million yuan and a construction period of 504 days. With a total investment of 3.5 billion […
CARIS and Kongsberg recently teamed up to conduct a five-day joint acquisition and processing workshop with Servicio de Oceanografia, Hidrografia y Meteorologia de la Armada (SOHMA) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thirty-five attendees from hydrographic organizations and survey companies from Argentina, Bra
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and Royal Volker Wessels Stevin N.V. (VolkerWessels) have signed a Letter of Intent to set up a joint venture combining their forces in the field of cable installation. Boskalis and VolkerWessels will each hold a 50% stake in Visser & Smit Marine Contractin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District has scheduled three National Environmental Policy Act scoping meetings to receive comments for the district’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Arctic Deep Draft Ports Navigation Improvements Feasibility Study being conducted as a general in
On May 3, CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. won the bid for Lot I of the Phase 1 Oufei reclamation project in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, with a contract value of some 980 million yuan and a construction period of 2,551 days. Located on the southeast coast of Zhejiang Province and the eas
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is enhancing the service it provides to industry through an interchange programme. MMO employees are visiting a range of organisations, delivery partners and devolved administrations to learn more about day-to-day and strategic activities, build awareness of
The Port of Rotterdam is currently undergoing a massive extension called Maasvlakte 2. Between 2008 and 2013, 240 million cubic metres of sand have been deposited from which 210 million m3 is dredged from a sand extraction area in the North Sea and around 30 million m3 comes from dredging the port b
Congressman Jon Runyan applauded the Army Corps of Engineers for their plan to include the Manasquan Inlet to Barnegat Inlet Shore Protection project in its newly released report to Congress. The ACOE estimates the cost of the project to be $85 million. Runyan made the following statement regarding
Dredging operations got underway last week in the Hatteras ferry channel to clear a 10-to-12-foot depth along the route between the ferry facilities on Hatteras and Ocracoke, with the goal of clearing the way for the ferry route to return to its original path in a few weeks. An overnight storm on Ja
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced Friday that the Pinatubo Hazard Urgent Mitigation Project Phase III (PHUMP III) is on track and will be completed this July. “The project covers the towns of Guagua, Sasmuan, and Lubao and the City of San Fernando and is now 86.7 percent compl
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, has announced a plan for the Brookgreen Gardens dredging project. The work consists of maintenance dredging of approximately 4,000 cubic yards of unclassified material at Brookgreen Gardens Canal, Georgetown County, South Carolina. This developm
Uljanik Shipyard on 16th May delivered to the Luxembourg Company Jan De Nul S.A. Capellen D.D. Luxembourg yard 497 named “Bartolomeu Dias”. It is the second constructed trailing suction hopper dredger of 26,000 tonnes deadweight, length 147.6 meters and width 30 meters. The ship and the working equi