The Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin was hijacked on Sunday approximately 80 nautical miles offshore Equatorial Guinea. Through the professional response of the crew and the coordinated support from the navy of Equatorial Guinea and Spain, the violent hijacking has been ended and the crew was safely freed.
Peter Berdowski, CEO Boskalis
“I want to express my compliments to our crew for their extremely professional and adequate actions in this life...
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded two contracts in Indonesia. On the island of Sulawesi, Boskalis will expand the Makassar New Port container terminal and on the island of Java it will prepare land for a new petrochemical complex. Both projects will be executed in the second half of 2019 and carry a combined value of approximately EUR 75 million.
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The first project, awarded by construction company PT PP, entails the expansion of a new...
Australia’s Port Adelaide shipping channel would be widened by Dutch company Boskalis.
Boskalis and Kotug sign LOI to sell Kotug Smit Towage to Boluda.
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With the new deal, SAAM consolidates as one of the main operators in the global towage industry.
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has reached an agreement with SPIE for the acquisition of the offshore cable installation activities and assets of Bohlen Doyen GmbH (BoDo). BoDo’s offshore cable laying business operations comprise of grid to grid and offshore substation to shore connections, which includes the installation of (nearshore) offshore cables and the connection of offshore wind farms to substations.
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BoDo, based near Wilhelmshaven,...
The 28,100-ton topside for the Johan Sverdrup processing platform has departed the Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea bound aboard the Boskalis Vanguard, the world’s largest heavy-transport vessel. The topside, which is fully assembled and tested, will handle the processing and refining...
Boskalis said that it was declared the lowest bidder in the tendering process for the deepening of the river Elbe.
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded the “Tyra Redevelopment Subsea Installation Phase II” contract by Total E&P Denmark. The sizable contract includes subsea engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation for the Tyra Redevelopment project in order to extend the operational lifetime of the Tyra offshore gas field by at least 25 years.
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Boskalis will provide a broad range of specialist subsea contracting...
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) will use a biofuel blend on the project to install the export cable to the Borssele offshore wind farm resulting in a more sustainable realization of this renewable energy project.
The Borssele Alpha project is being executed on behalf of TenneT and is aimed at connecting the Borssele offshore grid with the Dutch high-voltage grid. During this project, Boskalis will run its vessels on a biofuel blend of up to 30 percent. As of last week the large...