Bangladesh is going through its fifth decade. Every year on 16 December, Bangladesh celebrates its independence. The government invests a lot in the country’s growth in order to close the economic gap as quickly as possible. The building of sea harbours is a clear-cut choice. Next to the two existin
Earlier this week, DEME Group released the full year results for the last year. In their official statement, they said that the Dredging & Infra segment achieved a turnover of 1,524 million euro year-to-date, 3% higher than a year ago. While the orderbook decreased 8% it is still at a solid level of
YILPORT Holding has taken over the operations at Port of Šibenik in Croatia in the first week of February. The company plans to turn the Port into a multi-purpose terminal, offering diversified services. In the first phase, YILPORT will rehabilitate the quality, productivity, and efficiency of exis
Littlehampton Harbour (UK) has just announced that there will be sustained dredging activity within harbour limits from 8th March 2023 for approximately 3 weeks. As reported, The Marine Group’s water injection dredger ‘CMS INNOVATION’ will be engaged in water injection dredging primarily at both Aru
Lyme Regis Town Council has just announced that the dredger will be arriving soon to commence annual dredging of the Lyme Regis outer harbour and summer pontoons. Usually, dredging activities at Lyme Regis take place during May and June, but this year officials decided to get started a little early.
The Belgian consortium TM EDISON, including DEME and Jan De Nul, has won the tender for the construction of the world’s first artificial energy island. The construction of the foundations of the Princess Elisabeth Island will begin in early 2024 and will last 2.5 years. After that, the installation
Guyana President Dr Irfaan Ali visited the construction site of Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) yesterday – an artificial island located on the Demerara River. VEHSI is a joint venture between NRG Holdings Inc. – a 100 percent Guyanese-owned consortium that is the majority shareholder – and Jan
Demcon Unmanned Systems and Van Oord have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement. The new deal will strengthen the relationship by further alignment on key strategic topics and building a long-term sustainable partnership, the companies said. Demcon and Van Oord have already collaborated for sever
Kooiman Marine Group has successfully handed over the new 75.9-meter trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Hegemann V to her owner Hegemann Dredging in Germany. According to Kooiman, the Hegemann V left the yard in Zwijndrecht and was delivered last Wednesday. The newbuild is a multi-purpose traili
DEME Group has just released the full year results for the last year. According to their official statement, DEME achieved two records in 2022: an orderbook of more than 6 billion euro and an all-time high turnover at 2,655 million euro, an increase of 6% year-over-year. There was healthy demand in
In order to keep the sail between Ameland and Holwerd at reach depth and width, Rijkswaterstaat recently began dredging of the shoals in this part of the Wadden Sea. From today, February 27th, Rijkswaterstaat will speed up operations and deploy an additional dredger on the Ameland – Holwerd fairway.
BAM’s work on new, bigger seawall to protect railway and town of Dawlish is reaching final stages. According to the latest project update, work on the construction of the £80 million seawall has reached its final phases as a new link bridge and stilling basin near completion at Colonnade viaduct. Wo
