Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) and joint venture partner Van Oord have been awarded a contract by PT Muara Wisesa Samudra to design and construct the artificial island for the dredging and land development works for Pluit City off the coast...

Wärtsilä has won a contract to supply engines for generating power and driving the dredging pump on one of the world's largest non-self-propelled dredgers.  

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has acquired a 14.8% stake Dutch subsea provider Fugro for an undisclosed sum.

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) announced a net profit of EUR253m ($338m) in the first half of 2014 compared to EUR123m during the same period, a year ago.

Peel Ports’ GBP350m ($591m) Liverpool2 terminal will play a key role in “rebalancing” the economic disparity between Britain’s North and South, according to a UK report.

Rotterdam-based dredging company Van Oord has won two orders in Brazil and the Bahamas with a joint contract value of more than $134.6m.

Malaysia's major gateway Port Klang is gearing up for the mega-boxship wave with the Port Klang Authority (PKA) deepening the South Channel entrance at Pintu Gedong from its current depth of 16.5m to 18.0m local reports said.

Dutch-based dredging company Van Oord has been awarded a $68.5m contract for dredging and maintenance work for the western access channel to the port of Surabaya in Indonesia by Pelindo III.

Van Oord has been awarded a EUR500m ($696m) land reclamation project in Kuwait by the Kuwait National petroleum Company (KNPC).

China's Xiamen Port is now able to take in vessels of 100,000 dwt or panamax size in both directions and at all states of tide with the completion of its navigation channel.