SHIPPING SERVICES
(DES) (
www.dieselenginespanama.com), is an authorised service centre for MAN PrimeServ, Woodward, and other well known brands in the marine and stationary industries. DES offers a complete package of services including: technical support, repair solutions, preventive maintenance, spare parts, exchange programmes and also an entire range of after sales features for marine and stationary units. DES is strategically located in the
companies in the world and has been present in the isthmus since 1989. Boskalis International bv came as a contractor to dredge the former US Rodman Navy base in 1989 and in 1992 the then local- established subsidiary company Coastal and Inland Marine Services, Inc. (CIMS) started the execution of dredging works for Panama’s National Port Authority in the ports of Coco Solo, Balboa, Vacamonte and Cristobal. Since then the company has worked constantly in dredging and land reclamation works in Panama, amongst others for the cruise port Colon 2000, for the container terminals of Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT), Colon Container Terminal (CCT) and for Panama Ports Company (PPC). CIMS has executed a large variety of
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contracts and works for the private port concessionaries and port operators in Panama during the last decades, but has also executed a couple of maintenance dredging works in the past for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). In July 2010, CIMS won the one-year
ACP tender for chartering a mechanical dredger with the backhoe Cornelius fully equipped with crew, says CIMS regional manager Bernard Bezemer, who is to become Central America business development and special projects manager based in Panama, when Bart Roeleveld takes over in July 2011. This equipment will be specifically be
deployed in the Gaillard Cut and Gatun Lake for the Panama Canal expansion programme. While the ACP has contracted the dredging projects of the expansion in pieces, they have also rented equipment to be flexible, Bezemer says. ‘It works as an additional dredger for additional work.’ By end-2010, Boskalis’ CIMS
concluded the works under contract since May 2007 by Panama Ports Company for the extension of the container port of Balboa, says Bezemer. The works included the construction of additional port area
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oyal Boskalis Westminster nv, one of the largest private-owned dredging
Panama Canal area, the shipping, transportation and services hub of the Americas. It operates 24 hours, seven days a week to offer a wide range of solutions, taking advantage of its position, with just a few minutes access by land to either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts of Panama. It is estimated that at least 50% of the
vessels trading in the region carry a MAN Diesel Engine and 90% of the electricity in Panama is power generated by the German engine maker MAN Diesel. DES
Royal Boskalis Westminster
only carries original four-stroke engine parts, and MAN turbocharger spares in its workshop facilities. It takes pride in its representatives and works hard to train, coach and develop the DES team. Service engineers, technicians, mechanics, and staff continuously find new ways to ensure that customers around the world receive the quality of work expected from a MAN Authorised workshop. Absolute Maritime Tracking Systems (AMTS) –
www.panama-lrit.com – is the
First artificial residential islands in the Americas under construction
by means of land reclamation, a retaining rock dike and a link structure to the existing berths 16 and 17, the removal of the Diablo outcrop and an additional extension to berth 17 of around 320mtr. The civil works – the rock dyke, the concrete link structure between the existing pier and the landfill and the new extension to berth 17 - were executed by Coastal’s Panamanian partner Intercoastal Marine Inc. Boskalis is also building the first
artificial residential island in the Americas that began early this year, construction that is expected to conclude by mid 2012. ‘Although the international tender took place in 2008, the project did not start until 2011,’ says Bezemer. ‘The $70m contract consists in dredging of soft material and the placing of a surrounding retaining dike land fill for each of the islands projected. Boskalis’ contract is for the first 10ha island with option to build an adjoining second island of nine hectares with marina,’ explains Roeleveld, a civil engineer with 14 years of experience with Boskalis working in Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico and Norway. The dike will be formed by 650,000cu
mtr of rock and filled with 1.4m cu mtr of sand compacted by vibro compaction. ‘We are working with material from existing submarine sand concessions,’ says Bezemer. Next to the residential
area of Punta Pacifica, the most exclusive neighbourhood of Panama Bay, the first island will offer 72 lots and will be linked by a bridge to the coast. Trailing suction hopper dredger 2,303kw – Flevo as well as clampshell dredger Alex and a large trailer suction hopper dredger are currently working on the site of the reclamation project. The company Boskalis has developed and implemented a quality system, holding the ISO 9001 certificate; in the area of health, safety and environment the company is certified with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and operates its vessels according to the International Safety Management code (ISM). More recently, in 2010, Boskalis launched the NINA safety programme. ‘NINA – No Injuries, No Accidents – sets clear standards and explains what we expect from our people with regard to their safety behaviour,’ Bezemer adds. As a world wide operating company,
Boskalis is also strongly active in the region: in Mexico and the US, and several countries in the Caribbean and in South America. For a company like Boskalis, the Panama Canal expansion means a potential amount of dredging works and in addition to that, prospects of opportunities for port expansion and infrastructural development projects.
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