More Dredgers for Africa!
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
The last 12 months have seen a further boost to the dredging fleet of the continent of Africa with vintage European units. The main action took place in the dying days of December of of 2022 and 2023. DSB was…
The Piling Construction Jackup Market is buoyant
Monday, January 08, 2024
The tail end of 2023 was unusually busy in the market for construction #jackups. It seems that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict may be the biggest factor in this. Frozen port infrastructure projects have become un-frozen, slow-moving plans for port and terminal…
Dance of the Retrievers – Alpha’s Workboats on the Rise
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
The circle closes as the AMS Retriever Mark I moves on and AMS Retriever Mark II takes her place! DSB Offshore’s involvement began back in June when we were asked by Alpha Marine to propose some Multicat-type sales candidates for consideration as…
Seas of Success: The Exclusive Path for Damen Shoalbuster 2409 ‘AMS Retriever’
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
It was a pleasure to act as exclusive broker for Alpha Marine for the sale of their Damen Shoalbuster 2409 ‘AMS Retriever’ to Dutch buyers. She is one of the first Damen Shoalbusters ever built and over the years, including during a…
Digging Deep: Heading Towards Record Depths – Underwater Rogfast Road Tunnel
Saturday, September 02, 2023
Work to excavate the Rogfast Road Tunnel near Stavanger continues apace. Destined to be the deepest (392m!) subsea tunnel in the world as well as one of the longest (27km!), there is a lot of debris to remove… In the…
Damen Multicat ‘Wind Lass’ migrates south to join the fleet of Jenkins Marine
Thursday, August 03, 2023
Great to see this lass embarking on her new career at such a time as this. With 60knot gales predicted for this Great British summer, she’s aptly named. Scotland’s loss is England’s gain. We can certainly see this girl taking…
Dipper Dredger’s Multimodal Mob to New Home in Med
Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Backhoe dredger ‘Ocean S’, built 1995 in Germany, dims 49 x 18m,. Liebherr P9250 excavator with 960kW, arriving in Turkey after a long journey. Delivered to her new owners in Singapore, transported on semisub ‘Mighty Servant’ to Saudi and then…
Neptune Marine takes delivery of their largest splitbarges to date
Thursday, May 18, 2023
DSB Offshore recently assisted Jan De Nul Group in concluding the sale of two more pieces of marine plant as part of our ongoing exclusivity agreement for the disposal and renewal of their dredgers and auxiliary fleet. After taking delivery in Panama…
Multicat ‘Coastal Aurora’ bolsters Alka-Acta JV in Africa
Monday, January 16, 2023
It has been a busy few months for DSB with a number of sale and purchase transactions completed in the tug and workboat sector. We were pleased to assist Acta Marine with the purchase of the Damen 2712 Multicat ‘Coastal…
1981 to 2021 – 40 Years And Still Going Strong
Friday, March 19, 2021
When David Durnford-Slater and Johnny Buxton (the ‘D-S’ and ‘B’ of DSB) launched DSB Offshore in January 1981, they did so with some trepidation. Whilst the oil price was at its peak and the masses expectantly awaited the Royal Wedding,…
