The last week of January, Royal IHC’s Training Institute hosted a group of young officers from Van Oord. As part of their preparations, a short course about general dredging and Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers was provided. “In five days, the participants got to know some of their new colleagues, t
After 4 weeks of intensive collaboration, Van den Herik’s dredger Charlock is ready to go again, Royal Niestern Sander said. “With the majority of our work centered around substantial steel repairs, we’re proud to say it’s been a job well done,” the Dutch shipyard said. Royal Niestern Sander is a 10
To maintain the safe depths for the navigational channels and water ways in the area, Dorset Council (UK) will be dredging at West Bay and Lyme Regis. Every year the accumulated sediment that has deposited over the last twelve months is removed from the navigational channels and used to build up the
A £5.6 million flood defense fund to help protect West Yorkshire’s communities and businesses from extreme weather has been signed off by regional leaders, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority said. The investment will be used to refurbish a flood channel in Leeds, redirect floodwater away from bus
After almost a year of work, Boskalis has successfully completed the coastal protection project in Togo and Benin. During this coastal defence scheme, trailing suction hopper dredger Willem van Oranje made almost 800 trips between the offshore sand borrow area and the shore to successfully construct
Work to protect 177 residential properties and five community buildings in Dinas Powys from flooding is set to begin shortly after the Vale of Glamorgan Council secured £1.5 million of Welsh Government funding. That money will be used to make the area more resilient to flooding after many were engul
Together with its partners HOCHTIEF CZ a. s. and Ballast Nedam, Van Oord’s crews are working on the expansion of Princess Amaliahaven on behalf of Haven Rotterdam. They are constructing 2.5 kilometres of new inland shipping and deep-sea quays, which will have a depth of max. 20 metres. Part of the p
Immediately after completion at the Damen Dredging Equipment yard, the first-of-series cutter suction dredger (CSD) 600 has been sold to an Indonesian customer, PT. Dua Samudera Perkasa. The dredger is part of a complete dredging package, which includes ship transportation, training of the crew on l
Van Oord has achieved an A- score for its CDP disclosure of 2022. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states, and regions. “Achieving a high score with CDP reflects an organisation’s transparency in d
Building and civil engineering contractor McLaughlin & Harvey has made some great progress at the Port of Lowestoft project lately. The company is working for the client Associated British Ports on the development of Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) – a major ABP investment project on Lowest
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D, last week announced the allocation of almost €29.7m for capital projects in 2024 in Ireland’s six state-owned Fishery Harbour Centres at Killybegs, Ros an Mhíl, An Daingean, Castletownbere, Dunmore East and Howth. Commenting the
Land & Water has been working closely with Canal and River Trust to overcome the logistical challenges and environmental constraints associated with dredging large volumes of silt from Gloucester Docks. The docks need regular dredging and the crews have been working together to provide ever improvin
