Important shingle replenishment work started on the beach between Shoreham and Lancing earlier this month. According to the Environment Agency, this work will help give better protection to local communities from coastal flooding this winter. Recent storms eroded away some of the shingle beach in La
The outline design of a scheme to protect Musselburgh from major flood risk was presented to elected members at the full meeting of East Lothian Council on Tuesday 23 January 2024. At the meeting, councilors agreed that the design can now be presented to stakeholders and the public through a formal,
ESTEVE AS, part of BMLG group which provides port operator services at Paldiski South Harbor, has announced the start of the next phase of construction works at quay No. 6A. According to ESTEVE, the hopper dredger Vox Amalia owned by Van Oord has arrived at the Paldiski South Harbour, loading sand f
The dredging vessel Ginger has gone down at its berth at the Port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, spilling oil into the harbor, the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southwest District said. The Ginger went down in Mykolaiv on January 15. According to officials, the cause of the accident was not reporte
The Belgian specialist diving company SUBMAR BV recently ordered a DOP200 dredge pump for one specific project: cleaning out the Charles de Gaulle lock in Dunkerque, northern France. The lock, measuring 365 by 50 meters, involves a structure with four rolling doors of 1,700 ton each. These doors are
Mike Bell – North Somerset Councilor for Weston Central Ward – has just announced that the next phase of improvement work at Weston-super-Mare’s Marine Lake will start next month. This is part of a program of work made possible thanks to North Somerset Council’s successful bid for £20 million invest
The first campaign of the new multi-year maintenance dredging contract in the Port of Waterford has been completed by Irish Dredging Company (a subsidiary of Boskalis). The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Freeway returned to Waterford and removed over 130,000 cubic metres of sediment to ensur
Rijkswaterstaat recently successfully completed another beach replenishment project – the Scheveningen beachfill campaign. During the works, a total of 700,000 m3 of sand was dredged and spread over the beach, between the harbor head and the beach north of the Pier. The project, completed late last
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Willem Sr closed 2023 with a maintenance dredging campaign in the Ferry Port of Breskens, Filia Dredging said. Under the project, approximately 185,000 tonnes dry solid was removed in and in front of the ferry port. With this, Filia Dredging completed the d
A keel laying ceremony of the UKD Seadragon took place in Gdansk, Poland, recently. The UKD Seadragon is a diesel electric Damen 2711 Shoalbuster that will carry the water injection dredging (WID) for UK Dredging around the coast of the UK. “This expansion to the fleet adds another form of dredging
A medieval sword was found earlier this month at the bottom of Poland’s Vistula River during the dredging operations at Włocławek. According to the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Toruń (Wojewódzki Urząd Ochrony Zabytków w Toruniu), preliminary analyses of the weapon traced it b
On the Atlantic Coast, DEME Group is preparing the Port Atlantique La Rochelle for the future. “Through means of no less than 3 different types of dredgers, we are deepening the current Port zones, but also several berthing pockets for yet-to-be-built quays,” said Jonas Ryvers, project engineer at D
