Focus on Marine Projects

The global marine projects sector continues to utilise an ever-expanding range of workboat types, as we will once again see this week. Aside from the conventional dredgers, the broad selection covers large-capacity installation ships to small, portable unmanned craft equipped with advanced sensors for important survey work.

Dredging and Land Reclamation • Maritime Infrastructure Development • Installation and Decommissioning • Maritime Surveying • Port Development • Offshore Wind Farm Development

Unmanned marine projects vessels are also steadily evolving, as evidenced by this week's feature article detailing a Dutch project that seeks to introduce a new type of autonomous dredger for near-shore operations.

Be sure to visit Baird Maritime over the coming days as we bring you some of the latest developments in the highly critical dredging, survey, and construction sectors.

Vessel Reviews:

• Krakatoa – Stationary dredger delivered to Indonesian operator
  
• VESSEL REFIT | Swalinge – Den Herder dredger boasts additional capacity and key equipment following overhaul
  
• Voltaire – Large turbine installation vessel joins Jan De Nul fleet
• Qin Hanggong 5000 – Chinese-built crane vessel with 4,000-tonne lifting capacity
• Vaquita 01 – Jan De Nul debuts compact unmanned survey craft
• UK's MSeis acquires USV trio for survey missions
• Blue Wind – Versatile installation jackup for Shimizu Corporation
• Brouwersgracht – Netherlands' Spliethoff welcomes heavy-lift ship pair for offshore and project cargo transport
• VESSEL REFIT | Amazon – McDermott construction vessel upgraded to perform hex joint subsea installation
• Pilecki – Heavy-lift ship pair for Polish-Chinese joint venture
• Miss Katie – Shallow-draught dredger built for North Carolina's Outer Banks islands

Features and Opinion:

FEATURE | Dutch design firm unveils autonomous coastal replenishment dredger

– "Its purpose is to deliver sediment to coastlines to protect the land in a sustainable manner."

News and Gear:

• Rovco launches new site characterisation division
• Marine Projects Vessel News Roundup | April 26 – Chinese installation vessels, UK-built unmanned survey craft and more
• Offshore Vessel News Roundup | April 21 – New Dutch crewboat plus installation vessels to serve Asian and European markets
• Eneti, Transocean to form offshore wind installation joint venture
• Marine Projects Vessel News Roundup | March 29 – Newbuilds for Dutch owners, a new maintenance workboat for a UK service provider and an unmanned survey craft

Recent Important Features:

COLUMN | Saipem lives again, Mozambique restart is slated whilst more small island Caribbean corruption emerges [Offshore Accounts]

– "Since Saipem is a diverse entity with activities in windfarm installation and offshore construction – in both shallow and deepwater – besides operating a fleet of drilling rigs covering both jackups and drillships, its recovery can tell us a lot about the direction of the market."

– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime's anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations

Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!

Call for content!

Any news or views about the global marine project sector? Send it through to editor@bairdmaritime.com ASAP (between now and May 5), so we can add it to this current edition of Marine Projects Week!

We are after:

• Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
• Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the marine projects sector
• Interviews – Owners, operators, dredging companies, marine contractors, port developers, etc.
• Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the marine projects world? (example here)
• Other – Any other relevant news