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Delivered in January 2010 to Van Oord, the IHC Merwede built trailing suction hopper dredger, Vox Máxima, has been awarded Ship of the Year at the fifth annual Maritime Awards Gala. This award is presented to the manufacturer of a vessel which is designed, built and completed in the Netherlands, and which distinguishes itself in..

Delivered in January 2010 to Van Oord, the IHC Merwede built trailing suction hopper dredger, Vox Máxima, has been awarded Ship of the Year at the fifth annual Maritime Awards Gala. This award is presented to the manufacturer of a vessel which is designed, built and completed in the Netherlands, and which distinguishes itself in..

Friday 19 February 2010, Ms H. Vos-van Genderen, wife of Mr P.F. Vos, retired Van Oord Plant Design and Construction Manager, performed the keel-laying ceremony of yard number CO 1261 at IHC Dredgers‘ Kinderdijk location in the Netherlands: Van Oord‘s giant self-propelled cutter suction dredger Athena. The cutter is expected to be operational late October 2011.

Nexans has won a contract worth approximately EUR 39 million to supply the subsea power export cables for phase I of the Belgian Belwind Offshore Windfarm project, located on the Bligh Bank, 46 km off the coast of Zeebrugge. On project completion, Nexans’ cable technology will transmit environmentally friendly power to some 165,000 households in..