Damen Shipyards and Van Stee Offshore have signed a contract for delivery of the first Multibuster 8020 – a new class of 80-metre, ultra-shallow draught, multi-purpose workboats. Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, and Arjan van Stee of Van Stee Offshore inked the deal during the Offsho
The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance team was busy recently fixing multiple client cargoes for MV Fairplayer in Europe, all destined for Africa. Among the loaded equipment was recently completed hopper dredger Sayonara. The ship, weighing approx. 940 tonnes was previously an inland vessel before it was newly conv
Jackson has completed work on a multi-million pound project to raise a 30km flood bank on the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir. Following 6 years of construction, the project maintains the standard of flood protection to more than 2,000 properties and 67,000ha of agricultural land. The raising of
Boskalis has just announced the successful completion of an important bird habitat restoration and enhancement project in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. According to Boskalis, the newly restored habitat named Hooge Platen is a breeding site for coastal birds in the Western Scheldt. But at
Baltic Hub (formerly known as DCT Gdańsk), the operator of the largest container terminal in the Baltic Sea, ceremoniously kicked off construction of its third deep-water Terminal – T3 yesterday. When fully completed in the second quarter of 2025, the new terminal will have a 717-meter-long and 17.5
Associated British Ports (ABP) has awarded the design and build contract for its ambitious Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) to McLaughlin & Harvey. Earlier this year, Marine Management Organisation (MMO) granted a marine licence to Associated British Ports (ABP) for the development of the Lo
The Canal & River Trust has started its biggest ever programme of dredging at Gloucester’s historic docks. The four-month dredging programme will remove 15,000 cubic metres of silt, enough to fill six Olympic swimming pools, using a powerful ‘suction dredger. This excess silt entered the docks from
A successful keel laying ceremony for the first of two water injection dredgers (WIJs) for the Kooiman Marine Group 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 Kooiman Marine Group after the
At the UN Water Conference in New York, 22-24 March 2023, a new initiative to accelerate climate adaptation called the International Panel on Deltas and Coastal areas (IPDC) will be launched. This new initiative by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management will focus on solutions tha
The Environment Agency scheme to build a flood embankment and pumping station in Hildenborough has received planning permission from Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. The works planned at Hildenborough include a new embankment, pumping station, kiosk and flood defence wall. This will form part
X-Machines has just released this very interested video named ‘Top 3 most effective modern methods of dredging the seabed’. In the video: dredging for the New Suez Canal, how the cutter suction dredgers work, all about trailing suction hopper dredgers, backhoe dredgers, shipyard with the largest cov
A new monument to commemorate the successful completion of the modernisation of the Świnoujście-Szczecin fairway in Poland was unveiled recently. DEME and its joint venture partner Van Oord worked closely together to achieve this flagship project – one of the most important investments of the Szczec
