Special Report - Dredging
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Dredging cut option may aid Harwich
WITH dredging costs still high but shipping traffic in decline, trimming back on maintenance dredging could be a sensible response to the economic downturn, according to Harwich Haven Authority chief executive Stephen Bracewell.
Varied orderbook protects DEME from global downturn
BELGIAN dredging group DEME ended 2009 with an orderbook at least equal to and possibly higher than that of December 31, 2008.
Industry successfully ploughs a lone furrow
WHILE many in the shipping industry will be looking back on 2009 as a “year survived”, the dredging sector has thus far been much less affected by the global economic crisis.
Cristóbal Colón is the new big fish
WITH the delivery of the 46,000 cu m Cristóbal Colón from Spain’s La Naval shipyard last year, Belgian dredging contractor Jan De Nul can once again claim to operate the world’s largest trailing suction hopper dredger.
Van Oord wins $115m Brazilian contracts
DUTCH dredging contractor Van Oord has recently announced two major contracts in Brazil.
Cutting lead times is a priority, says Dolmans
ENVIRONMENTAL concerns and competition issues are two factors leading to increasingly long delays in implementing dredging projects around the world — an issue that needs to be tackled, according to International Association of Dredging Companies secretary-general Constantijn Dolmans.
Boskalis to start work on $720m Gorgon LNG port project
ROYAL Boskalis Westminster is due to start work early this year on a €500m ($720m) project for the construction of a port for the Gorgon LNG project, 50 km off the coast of Western Australia.
Smaller jobs come to aid of Jan De Nul
LAST year was a year of reshuffling markets and plant, according to Jan De Nul.
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