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Construction on the Liverpool2 container terminal – a GBP 300m project which will open up the whole of the UK to global trade – has entered a new phase. More than 320 40m long steel piles, weighing 47 t each, are now being driven into the bed of the River Mersey to form one of the..

A consortium consisting of Van Oord and BAM International, has been awarded the contract for the design and construction of Phase 2A of the new container terminal for APM Terminals in Moín, Costa Rica. The total contract value amounts to USD 460 million which is split between Van Oord and BAM International on an almost..

Van Oord has ordered a new cable-laying vessel. The ship will be built at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania and will be completed at the end of 2014. The vessel is intended for the installation of electricity cables for offshore wind farms. Van Oord is making preparations for the Gemini offshore wind farm which will..

Van Oord has ordered a new cable-laying vessel. The ship will be built at Damen Shipyards’ wharf in Romania and will be completed at the end of 2014. The ship is intended for the installation of electricity cables for offshore wind parks. Van Oord is making preparations for the Gemini wind park project which will..

British and Dutch expertise will be used to construct a new quay wall at the heart of the GBP 300 million Liverpool2 container terminal project. Liverpool2 will open up the north of the UK to trade from Asia, the Middle East and the Americas after the upgrading of the Panama Canal in 2015, providing a..

International Dredging and Offshore Contractor Van Oord has chosen Sealink customised VSAT from Marlink to provide data communication services for three offshore rock placement vessels. The five year contract covers Marlink’s provision of end-to-end services and includes facility to provide ad-hoc coverage should the vessels be operating in extreme remote areas. The Sealink Service Agreement,..

Van Oord has been awarded two pipe lay projects for its new shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray. The total value of these contracts is approximately USD 80 million (more than EUR 60 million). In Ulsan, Korea, Van Oord has been awarded the new SPM (Single Point Mooring) construction project for the S-Oil refinery. The..

Following a six-year acquisition program, the Government of the Bahamas has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to acquire 9 vessels for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and construction work for their naval bases. The contract has been placed with Damen Shipyards Group, headquartered in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.  In announcing the contract, the..

Sietas shipyard undocks first German-built jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms. The hull is complete, the steelwork concluded, the building of the deckhouse has begun – in the dock of Sietas shipyard the first jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms developed and constructed in Germany is currently taking shape. Construction started in April 2012; the..

The Netherlands-based Formaco Forgings & Castings and Italian partner Forgiatura Moderna Aresa (FMA) have delivered forged bushings and rings for Allseas’ Pieter Schelte, under construction at DSME in South Korea. The partners also supplied high alloy steel shafts for Van Oord’s jumbo CSDs Athena and Artemis, built by IHC Merwede in the Netherlands. Formaco Director Robert..

In October Dutch crane builder Lagendijk Equipment delivered two electric/ hydraulic cranes for the Van Oord and Fugro Seacore joint venture WaveWalker 1. The custom-designed and built offshore knuckle boom crane and offshore wire crane with lattice boom will operate on board the innovative walking jack-up barge in rough seas, surf zones, beaches, and other intertidal settings in Brazil.

Today Van Oord named its first shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray at the COSCO shipyard in Nantong, China. The naming ceremony was performed by Mrs A. Athmer-Albersen, wife of Managing Director Offshore, Mr J.B.E.M. Athmer.

One of the largest cutter suction dredgers ever built in The Netherlands for a Dutch dredging company was launched last saturday at IHC Merwede shipyard in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands.

Van Oord won a EUR 567 million dredging contract in Darwin Harbour, Australia – part of the Ichthys LNG Project, a joint venture between INPEX (operator) and TOTAL. Execution of the project starts in August 2012 and is scheduled for completion in April 2014.

In our June/July 2013 issue of SBI we go on board three new builds demonstrating the quality of Western European shipbuilding. SBI Senior Editor John Gauldie had an exclusive tour of the Artemis – Van Oord’s Jumbo CSD built by the Netherlands’ IHC Merwede. He also visited the LaNaval Shipyard in Bilbao, Spain, before giant..

On 4 April 2012 the keel was laid of Fugro Seacore and Van Oord’s large walking jack-up barge WaveWalker, which is set to begin operating in the field later in 2012 on drilling and blasting works for the new Brazilian Suape Outer Channel, a contract recently won by Van Oord.

Offshore Independents BV, providers of EPC, project management and engineering services to the international oil and gas industry, has been awarded a project management contract by dredging, marine and offshore contractor Van Oord. Under the terms of the contract, Offshore Independents will provide installation engineering, procurement, operations and project management services to support Van Oord’s newly..

Van Oord has engaged the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg for the final fitting-out and commissioning of its new flexible fallpipe vessel, Stornes. The special offshore vessel was transferred to the port of Hamburg from the Chinese Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd. We greatly appreciate the confidence that Van Oord has shown in us with this..

Wärtsilä has recently been awarded a series of orders to supply propulsion solutions for dredger vessels to be built in China and the Netherlands. Since dredging applications are typically very demanding, the high reliability of the Wärtsilä solutions was a key element in the award of all three project orders. Wärtsilä will provide the engines..

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading systems integrator, will provide the engines and fixed pitch propellers (FPP) to Van Oord for the Artemis, the second of two large self-propelled cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) being built at IHC Dredgers. Two further orders have been received from Chinese companies: the Nantong Gangzha Shipping Manufacturing Co., Ltd and the Tianjin..

Today, having performed the official naming ceremony, the words of Mrs A.M. Van Oord-Groen, wife of Mr Drs J.G. Van Oord, former chairman of the board of directors and former commissioner of Van Oord, guided the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Athena from the slipway of the IHC Merwede yard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Van Oord’s first..

IHC Merwede  announced that it has  secured assignments for vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of EUR 500 million. This further reinforces the group’s belief that there will be continued demand for its innovative vessels, advanced equipment and life-cycle support. The latest projects agreed and confirmed by..

IHC Merwede has announced that it has recently secured assignments for vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of EUR 500 million. This further reinforces the group’s belief that there will be continued demand for its innovative vessels, advanced equipment and life-cycle support. Various IHC Merwede business units..

SIS has announced that the company has signed an agreement with Van Oord, a leading Dutch dredging and marine contractor. The contract covers Van Oord’s fleet of more than ninety vessels and represents one of the largest contracts ever awarded in the marine software industry. Under the terms of the contract, SIS will provide a comprehensive suite..

Sietas is to be the first German shipyard to develop and build a jack-up vessel used for offshore wind farm installation. The order, which was signed today in Hamburg, comes from Dutch-based marine contractor Van Oord, working on dredging, offshore and marine engineering projects worldwide. In addition, Van Oord has placed an option for a second..