A consortium led by Etermar – Engenharia e Construção, S.A. has won the tender for the Reinforcement of Dock 1 North of the Port of Leixões for Dual Use and Rail Connectivity. This project for APDL is part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). CEF is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth,
A Damen ??? ??????????? dredge pump, type DOP200, has been used to empty a continuous carousel of barges. Contractor Michels Construction, Inc. successfully completed this very important job in Philadelphia recently. In total, some 26,000 cubic yards of dredge material have been removed. At the upla
Eco-friendly sea-walls to prevent coastal flooding will be developed between Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and a global firm, thanks to funding from Innovate UK’s ground-breaking Launchpad programme. This week, £5.5 million for Liverpool City Region was announced for Launchpad, which suppo
Port of Aberdeen recently contracted Boskalis Westminster to conduct emergency maintenance dredging works in the River Dee. Flooding in November 2022 caused significant material to accumulate in the west of the river resulting in the minimum water depths being exceeded at the port’s Torry 6 and Mear
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Central America, Christine Pirenne, yesterday toured the dredging vessel Elbe, owned by Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging. Built by Royal IHC, the tralling suction hopper dredger (TSHD) is currently is dredging Caldera Harbor in Costa Rica. The to
Malachy Walsh and Partners (MWP) has been shortlisted in the Innovation – Small/Medium Category for the ACEI Engineering Excellence Awards 2023. The overall project relates to the upgrading of the Middle Pier in Howth FHC for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The upgrading consiste
Emergencies services and agencies in Norfolk have declared a major incident following the discovery of a suspected World War Two device in Great Yarmouth yeaterday. Norfolk Police said that the discovery in the River Yare was thought to be an ordnance device. It was found by a contractor working on
Each year, the Lymington Yacht Haven (UK) is undertaking dredging campaign which is essential to maintain the depth of 2.5m below chart datum for the marina. The programme, dredging approx. 10,000 tonnes of mud every year until 2024, takes place at the Lymington River during November, December and J
A successful keel laying ceremony for the second of two water injection dredgers (WIJs) for the Kooiman Marine Group – on behalf of Van Oord – took place last week at Vahali Zasavica. In July 2022, Van Oord ordered the construction of two additional state-of-the-art water injection vessels from Kooi
Jan De Nul’s giant trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Cristóbal Colón is almost ready to sail again. The vessel was docked out in January for maintenance works. The crew is currently completing repairs along the quay and preparing the vessel for departure later this month. The TSHD specification
Following successful sea trials in mid-January, Royal IHC delivered the new trailing suction hopper dredger TEUNIS HUIBERTUS to contractor Gebr. van der Lee on 1 February 2023. The newbuild, a Beagle® 4 hopper dredger, belongs to the series of standard medium-sized TSHDs from IHC which are equipped
Damen crews are currently preparing a new cutter suction dredger ?????? for transport. At the moment, disassembly (process of separating a machine or structure into its different parts) of the new dredger is underway at the ????? ???????? yard. According to the Dutch shipbuilder, the CSD650 is almos
