Thérèse Coffey, Secretary of State for the Environment, visited the shores of Chichester Harbour earlier this week to learn about an innovative saltmarsh restoration trial. The Secretary of State was accompanied by staff from Chichester Harbour Conservancy, the Environment Agency and the Solent Seas
By 2026, the world’s first artificial energy island will have arisen 45 km off the Belgian coast. The Princess Elisabeth Island will be a key factor in both Belgium’s and Europe’s energy transition, as it will give access to massive amounts of renewable energy, making millions of people less depende
Ceredigion County Council has successfully obtained funding from the Welsh Government to proceed with the construction of the Aberaeron Coastal Defence Scheme. The £31.59m scheme will be funded through a £26.85m contribution from the Welsh Government’s Coastal Risk Management Programme, together wit
Standard Fuel Oils UK achieved a major milestone earlier this week by providing the first-ever renewable blend bunkers to the hybrid water injection dredger (WID) Maas in Liverpool. The bunkers were supplied on behalf of their long-standing customer Van Oord. This renewable bunker supply complements
Royal IHC is currently working on an advanced autonomous dredging system to increase the autonomy of the dredging and unloading process of TSHDs – called Mission Master. Implementing automation is complex. “We believe it is important that experienced industry professionals are involved in this proce
As the first point of contact with the soil a drag head is of vital importance to the entire dredging process. Although clay is one of the most difficult soils to dredge with a trailing suction hopper dredger, there is a solution – the Royal IHC Mighty Dragon drag head. Dredging soils such as clay [
Boskalis has completed an important contribution to the realization of Canada’s first large-scale LNG export terminal. The final module for the LNG facility was recently successfully delivered to the Port of Kitimat by its heavy transport vessel Forte. For Boskalis this final transport marks the end
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Shoalway arrived in Dover this morning – getting ready for the next phase of planned dredging in the Outer Harbour. The vessel is owned and operated by Royal Boskalis Westminster, and their direct involvement with the Dover Western Docks Revival project mak
HID Dredger, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) recently, and also signed partnership with Mr. Altai Borubaev, the National Science Academician from Kyrgyzstan, for the purpose of improving water quality by creating water pur
The Port of Rotterdam has reached another great milestone on the largest construction project currently taking place in the port—the development of the new quay walls in the Princess Amaliahaven. “Great news in at the Prinses Amaliahaven: all sections on both the Rotterdam World Gateway B.V. side as
DACINCO Investment Construction Company Limited in Vietnam has recently awarded IHC Dredging a contract to supply a third Beaver® 65 DDSP cutter suction dredger. This was announced last month, at a special ceremony in Vietnam, marking the delivery of the second Beaver® 65, the DACINCO 01. Alexander
DEME has successfully completed dredging works in the Port of Brest, France. For this project, the company mobilised its trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River and the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Ganga to tackle 1 million m³ of soft sediments. The project’s primary objective was to de
