The Environment Agency is about to begin work on the Canvey Island Southern Shoreline revetment replacement in the county of Essex, England. Work on the £75 million project that will keep homes and businesses in Canvey Island protected from flooding will begin early next year, according to the EA. C
A&P Tees has successfully completed a hattrick of consecutive dockings of Tarmac’s dredgers worth over £1.5m. The dredgers City of London, City of Westminster and City of Chichester have all benefitted from A&P’s expertise over the past three months. The programme of works included a renewal survey
A group of international students followed a course on “Sediments, sustainable building blocks” last week, DEME Group said. In the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master of Applied Ecohydrology (MAEH) and the Advanced Master “Think Water” at the Antwerp University, DEME’s Environmental Manager
After successful sea trials, the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Zeeburg is already very busy on her first ever job. As Dredging Today reported earlier this year, the sand mining company based in Middelburg – Van Ouwerkerk BV – awarded Holland Shipyards Group a contract last year to conve
Royal IHC announced today the successful delivery of two cutter suction dredgers to a customer in Vietnam. According to IHC, last month the company handed over two CSDs, an IHC Beaver 70 and an IHC Beaver 45, to Xuan Thien Group at Nam Dinh province. General Manager of Xuan Thien Group, Mr. Nguyen H
Rohde Nielsen is currently working on a coastal protection project near Thorsminde, on the Danish West Coast. The two TSHDs, Embla R and Ask R are delivering 880.000 m3 of sand on a 3.5 km long stretch, using the rainbow method: The project is for the Danish Coastal Authority (KDI) and is part of a
The casting of ECOncrete® Coastalock single layer armor units is underway at the Puerto de Vigo, Spain. The units will be installed in the coming weeks to build coastal resilience and promote marine biodiversity at the Port. Interlocking armor is used along many of coasts and waterfronts as a versat
In collaboration with her owner Van Oord, C-Job successfully co-created the design of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vox Amalia. The Vox Amalia features two suction drag arms and currently sails around the world to perform the most complex of dredging contracts. “Because of her large cap
Following on from the success of the previous online courses Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure, CEDA and IADC have decided to organise an onsite course on 13 & 14 December 2022 at the HR Wallingford Head Office in Oxfordshire (UK). Experienced lecturers will describe the latest thinking and ap
Major Argentinian contractor Merco Vial S.A. is about to expend its fleet with a brand new Damen CSD650 cutter suction dredger. The delivery of the CSD650 includes the supply of a matching booster station, enhancing the flexibility of the set-up immensely. The new dredger is a customised stock vesse
IHC Dredging and Cochin Shipyard have signed an agreement for a design and engineering, hardware and support package for the licensed construction of a Beagle 12 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The new TSHD will be built by Cochin Shipyard for the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI). With th
Earlier this year, Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis started work on the Texel beach nourishment project in the Netherlands. According to Rijkswaterstaat, maintenance of the Texel coastline kicked off in early September and will continue until the spring of 2023. For this project, Boskalis will dredge an
