Casualties – Former Naval Ship A 963 STERN on fire at Malta – 21.06.2024
With summer officially starting on Friday 21st June, 2024, the former Swedish Coastguard Vessel KBV 171, Belgian Navy Support Ship A 963 STERN and since 2016 as an anti piracy control vessel with local interests caught fire and in few seconds she became as an inferno while on her Hull Hard (NOT as reported by […]
Dredging – Cutter Suction Dredger D’ARTAGNAN
One of the dredgers operated by the Belgian company Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (DEME) that was founded in 1991 with the merger of 3 Belgian companies – Baggerwerken Decloedt & Zoon, Ackermans & van Haaren and Société Générale de Dragage is the 2005 built Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) D’ARTAGNAN. She was built in the […]
Marine Construction – Belgian Herbosch-Kiere to lay cables for Bahrain – February 2022.
In 2021, the Flemish marine construction company Herbosch-Kiere, signed a contract for the installation of 3 x 66 kV submarine cables in shallow waters between Bahrain’s mainland and Hawar Island. The multi-purpose, self-propelled vessel ATLANTIS will carry out the works for Al-Gihaz Contracting, a Saudi Arabian construction company. The works start in February 2022 and […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – Dredger BREYDEL 10.06.2021 – 31.07.2021
The 2008 built Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) BREYDEL called at Grand Harbour, Malta on Thursday 10th June passing breakwaters at 1621 hrs coming from Abu Qir, Egypt. She berthed Port Side alongside Parlatorio Wharf and the following day on Friday 11th June at 0930 hrs she shifted 20 metres ahead assisted by tugboat SPINOLA. […]
