Over the years, Boskalis has installed thousands of kilometers of power cable on the seabed to enable the transmission of electricity generated by wind farms at sea to millions of households ashore. But before a power cable can be installed, the subsurface must first be checked to make sure it is fr
PD Ports, a Middlesbrough headquartered port, shipping and logistics company, has just announced a £23 million investment in a new dredging vessel. The 71m long dredger, which has already been named the Emerald Duchess following a competition among PD Ports employees, will arrive at Teesport next su
Jenkins Marine Ltd has returned to Dover with its dredge CH Horn to complete work started there last Summer. The Port of Dover is currently undergoing development as part of its Western Docks Revival project and Jenkins Marine were tasked with dredging roughly 20,000m3 of silts from the existing Wel
The Szczecin and Świnoujście Seaports Authority SA and a consortium consisting of DEME Concessions N.V. and Qterminals W.L.L., have signed a preliminary agreement for a 30-year lease of land located in the outer port in Świnoujście, for the financing, building and operation of the Deep-water Contain
In high winds an amphibious excavator has done a precision dredging job near a Dutch dyke. The project aim was to remove a limited volume of silt – some 4.000m³ and create a more stable basis for dyke reinforcement. The removed volume was to be replaced by sand in a second stage of the project. [&he
Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB), Sweden’s radioactive waste management company, has received an environmental permit to expand and conduct operations in Forsmark Port. In April, SKB took over Forsmark’s port from former owner Forsmark’s power group as a prerequisite for handling and transportin
A non-self-propelled cutter suction dredger (Project 4395) was launched at Gorodets based PAO Shiprepair & Shipbuilding Corporation last week. The RKO class dredger “X O 2.0 (Ice 10) A” of 700 cbm capacity/hour, named Tobol, was ordered by Rechvodput for the Ob-Irtysh basin administration. This is t
Visualization of dredging is essential to gain insight into the dredging process. But this is only the beginning of the whole dredging story. To complete that story, MSA-Service meet with Diederik van Halsema of DC Dredging. He is the fleet manager of the entire DC Dredging fleet, including the vess
Lerwick Port Authority is gearing up for their next major land reclamation project, this time to accommodate future expansion by the important pelagic fish processing sector. The project, costing just over £601,000, has received £450,759 in grant from the UK Department for Environment Food & Rural A
ML (UK) Dredging Ltd is once again returning to the Portsmouth Harbour for another maintenance dredging campaign. According to the King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, the routine maintenance dredging will take place in the vicinity of the Ferry berthing pontoon on the Gosport side of the harbour. The
Rohde Nielsen has successfully completed this year’s campaign at La Pineda Beach, located west of Tarragona Port in Spain. The project was part of a 4-year beach nourishment contract awarded to Rohde Nielsen by the client AP TARRAGONA. According to RN, the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Frej
The Harwich Haven Authority (HHA) is in the process of appointing a firm to conduct maintenance dredging over the next twelve months – December 2023 to December 2024. The aim of the project is to maintain the haven approach channel and harbour at charted depth and allow the safe passage of deeper dr
