Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, is continuing its growth into the offshore wind power sector with the announcement… Read More
Van Oord
A dredging contract awarded to Jan De Nul was terminated this year, following a rupture in a dredge’s hull. In July this year, Colombian river management authority, Cormagdalena, said Jan… Read More
Van Oord, in coordination with Shell, is testing the use of biofuel on its fleet. The biofuel reduces CO2 emissions by more than 40 percent compared with conventional marine fuel. This… Read More
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a unique and patent-pending LNG fuel storage and supply system for two new trailing suction hopper dredges. The ships are being built by Kepppel… Read More
Several groups, including Jan De Nul and a consortium made up of Van Oord and Marine Contractors BV, are disputing two separate maintenance dredging projects at the Argentinian Port of… Read More
Van Oord has ordered a third trailing suction hopper dredge from Keppel FELS Limited. The vessel is similar to the two vessels that Van Oord ordered in May 2018. Each… Read More
ABB, a manufacturer of power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion, has received an order from Van Oord to deliver integrated electrical power, automation, control and navigation… Read More
Van Oord’s first vessel to run entirely on LNG, Werkendam, started work on its first project in May. The world’s first LNG-powered crane vessel is carrying out maintenance work in… Read More
In February, Kooiman Marine Group announced that Van Oord ordered the construction of two state-of-the-art water injection vessels. The first vessel will be commissioned in late 2020. Van Oord is… Read More
In 2018, Van Oord recorded EUR 1.88 billion ($2.2 billion) in revenue (2017: EUR 1.53 billion/ $1.72 billion) with a net profit of EUR 92 million ($104 million) (2017: EUR… Read More
