Focus on Marine Projects

This week, Baird Maritime once again takes a closer look at marine projects vessels serving a number of roles. Although dredgers once again comprise the majority of featured vessels, also included is a large Chinese-built heavy-lift ship operating under charter with a European customer.

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

The featured dredgers are also of a range of types, from one of the largest cutter suction dredgers built and operated in the United States to the first in a new series of LNG-powered hopper dredgers recently delivered to a Dutch contractor.

Keep visiting Baird Maritime for the latest developments of the ever-expanding marine projects sector.

Vessel Reviews:

• Seaway Swan – Chinese-built heavy transporter boasts 50,000DWT capacity
• Estoril – Mozambique's Emodraga takes delivery of quayside dredger
• General Bradley – Callan Marine welcomes new large cutter suction dredger to fleet
• Vox Ariane – Van Oord opts for LNG propulsion on new hopper dredger series
• VESSEL REFIT | Delores – Repowered tug to take on bridge maintenance in San Francisco Bay Area

News and Gear:

• Dredging completed at New Jersey's Fortescue Creek Channel
• New port inaugurated on Maio island, Cabo Verde
• Marine Projects Vessel News Roundup | September 7 – Dredger deliveries to the US and UK plus newbuilding orders for Bangladesh and Vietnam
• Dredging underway at Malta's Grand Harbour
• UK's Portland Port undertakes £26 million berth development
• Offshore Projects News Roundup | August 31 – Seismic surveys in Europe, India and Australia, engineering works in Angola and Brazil
• Beach reinforcement set for Katwijk, Netherlands
• Over US$8 million earmarked for fish habitat restoration in four US states
• Coastal reinforcement works planned for two Romanian seaside resorts
• New ferry terminal to be built in Lekki, Nigeria

Recent Important Features:

COLUMN | Ocean Infinity: Waiting for Godot, for newbuildings and for published accounts? [Offshore Accounts]

– "Ocean Infinity has embarked on an ambitious public relations campaign to emphasise its claims to be transforming the entire marine industry, and a drive to collect yet more government subsidies."

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

FEATURE | Floating, flood-proof city that can house 12,000 people to be built off Busan, South Korea

– "The interconnected neighbourhoods total 6.3 hectares and include up to 40,000 square metres of mixed-use space."

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 September 9), 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