BOLLINGER AWARDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL SAFETY RECORD Shipbuilders Council of America honors Bollinger for excellence in safety for 15th consecutive year. Bollinger Shipyards was presented with the 2019 “Excellence in Safety” Award by the Shipbuilders Council of America (“SCA”) for its exceptional record of safety in the shipyard industry. Bollinger has been the recipient of the […]
NAVISENSE AI-BASED TECHNOLOGY MAKES PORT TOWAGE JOBS SMART AND EFFICIENT Operators enabled to track events automatically, save fuel, and reduce emissions. Successful collaboration with Svitzer in 21 ports The global towage operator Svitzer (www.svitzer.com) and the maritime tech company Navisense (www.navisense.de) have teamed up to make port towage services more efficient and sustainable. The “Porttracker” […]
CONRAD SHIPYARD’S SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM Conrad Shipyard, LLC (Conrad) is pleased to announce the addition of Robert A. Socha, to the Conrad team as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In this role, Robert will lead the company’s sales and marketing efforts. He will work collaboratively with other Conrad business groups, including Business Development, Engineering […]
ALL SET FOR CORK HARBOR DREDGING A maintenance dredging program will be taking place in Cork Harbor on all main shipping channels and berths, starting 19th August 2020. Dredging is a multi-million-euro operation and is a necessary process undertaken periodically in the Port of Cork with a major campaign scheduled at three yearly intervals, to […]
DREDGING TO REMOVE HEAVILY POLLUTED SLUDGE AT PORT OF ANTWERP The Port of Antwerp, the Flemish government, and contractor Sereant, a partnership between Jan De Nul Group and DEME Group, will begin dredging and processing the most polluted dredging sludge at the port later this month. The dredging will focus on the removal of sludge […]
AZOV-BLACK SEA BRANCH ADDS TSHD SOMMERS TO ITS FLEET The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sommers was recently handed over to the AzovChernomorsky Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport. Previously, the dredger was operated by its North-Western Basin Branch for dredging in the seaport of Ust-Luga, Rosmorport said. TSHD Sommers is the lead vessel of a […]
NASH MARITIME WINS CONSULTANCY CONTRACT FOR WELSH FLOATER NASH Maritime has been selected as the shipping and navigation consultant for the 96 MW Erebus floating wind project in the Celtic Sea offshore Wales, UK. NASH Maritime’s scope includes the delivery of radar vessel traffic surveys, which commenced this month, a Navigation Risk Assessment (NRA) and […]
STRIL EXPLORER SETS SAIL TO BEACON WIND OWF SITE MMT’s DP2 multipurpose support vessel Stril Explorer is on its way to the Beacon Wind project site offshore Massachusetts, where MMT will carry out geophysical survey. In April, Equinor Wind US awarded MMT US with a contract for survey work at its offshore wind lease area […]
VENTUS MARINE TAKES DELIVERY OF FORMOSA 1 CT Ventus Marine has taken delivery of crew transfer vessel (CTV) Ventus Lugang which will service the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. Ventus-Marine-TakesDelivery-of-Formosa-1- CTVVentus-Marine-TakesDelivery-of-Formosa-1-CTV Ventus Lugang was delivered on 1 August at the Port of Kaohsiung and will join its sisters CTV Ventus Beigang and service […]
FUGRO NETS HOLLANDSE KUST (NOORD) SITE SURVEY WORK The CrossWind consortium of Shell and Eneco has awarded Fugro a geotechnical site investigation contract for the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm. The work will comprise an unexploded ordnance (UXO) site clearance survey followed by a seabed cone penetration test (CPT) investigation. For the UXO clearance […]