Kees Muller, co-founder of Netherlands-based towage and salvage company Multraship, died earlier this week at the age of 79 following a long illness, his son, Multraship managing director Leendert Muller, confirmed. Muller’s career in towage and salvage spanned six decades, having started in the...
German utility RWE and Masdar, its partner in the Dogger Bank South offshore wind project, have hired Fugro for geotechnical seabed surveys on the project sites. RWE said in a social media post that the findings would provide a detailed and accurate picture of the ground conditions, which will aid...
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Dutch marine contractor Boskalis recently completed an extensive land reclamation campaign on the island of Gulhifalhu in the Maldives. The works were carried out over a period of nine months using the trailing suction hopper dredgers Oranje, Queen of the Netherlands, Willem van Oranje, and Prins...
Lady Gaga famously sang that she was “on the edge of glory”. This week, we look at four companies on the edge of….well, something. Let’s check in on two construction companies, a subsea mining venture, and our favourite wind turbine installer. McDermott on the edge Finally, a judge in the UK has...
Dutch floater expert SBM Offshore has secured a $250m term loan facility for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel construction financing. SBM said that the facility will be drawn in full in the coming days. The tenor of the bridge loan is twelve months with an extension option...
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Finnish shipping company Meriaura has placed an order for two new cargo vessels in a series to be built by Netherlands-based shipyard Royal Bodewes. The vessels are scheduled for delivery to Meriaura in January and December 2026, respectively. Each newbuilding will have a length of 105 metres, a...
Van Oord recently completed one of the largest beach restoration projects in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of Van Oord subsidiary Dravo...
Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
Netherlands-based towage company Kotug International has entered into a framework agreement with local shipbuilder Padmos for the construction of a series of electric pusher tugs of three main models. The framework agreement follows the successful commissioning of E-Pusher 1 (pictured), Kotug’s new electric inland pusher tug. Since June 2023, E-Pusher 1 has been navigating the […]
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Florida shipbuilder the Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Netherlands-based marine engineering company Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of designing and constructing a highly automated, medium hopper dredger for use by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredger will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton and Port St Joe facilities. […]
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