For many decades Boskalis has been successfully carrying out beach and foreshore replenishment work to strengthen coastlines throughout Europe. The company is currently working on the Wadden Island of Texel and near Noordwijk in the Netherlands, and in the spring of 2023 on the beach of the Wadden I
Jan De Nul Group and Neptune Marine today held a launching ceremony for the new water injection dredger Cosette near Dordrecht in the Netherlands. This newbuild is a sister vessel to the Pancho, delivered earlier this year. The design of both vessels is based on an existing vessel design from the Ne
Port of Aberdeen has just released the latest visual update of its transformational port expansion project at Aberdeen South Harbour. “We are fast approaching the next major construction milestone at the end of October, when around 80% of the quayside will be complete and fully operational,” the Por
The Environment Agency and East Devon District Council have spent £12 million of Government funding, building new and improving existing defences at The Royal Avenue, Camperdown Creek and The Esplanade. The flood risk to residents and 400 businesses in the area has been reduced from a 4% chance of f
The IADC-CEDA recently published a Fact Sheet titled “Beneficial Use of Dredged Material” which describes methods and answers questions about how to deal with large quantities of sediments in relation to dredging projects and ecological developments. Dredging is essential for the maintenance and dev
Royal IHC announced yesterday that the first of a series of four electrically powered dredgers for Vale has been commissioned. The dredgers will be operating in the Projeto Gelado where they are reprocessing iron ore tailings. Given the conditions in Brazil, and those of the Gelado dam, the CSD’s ar
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sayonara has completed its sea trials, Concordia Damen Shipbuilding said. During the sea trials, all systems are properly tested and the TSHD performed perfectly. ????? ???????? ????????? has delivered all dredging gear, including the D500 mm trailing pipe,
The wet civil engineering firm Land & Water has reached the milestone of 100,000m3 being dredged from Queen Pool at Blenheim Palace in Oxford. Queen Pool, which was created in 1715, had become heavily silted putting its extensive eco-system at risk. Land & Water started works earlier this year, maki
Van Oord and Dublin Port Company (DPC) are about to begin work on a Capital Dredging campaign in order to create two new riverside berths. As disclosed by DPC, the contractor intends to carry out loading and dumping at sea of dredged material arising from capital dredging as part of the MP2 Project
Mavi Deniz, an Istanbul based company involved in oil spill response, weed and silt removal, dredging and ship building, has delivered an Amphibex amphibious machine to Bulgaria – with support of European Union Funding. The machine has excavator arms with different tools for harvesting aquatic weeds
Rohde Nielsen announced today successful completion of a beach nourishment project in Germany at the southwest beach of the island Föhr. According to the company, this beach nourishment was more difficult than usual, because of the long sailing distance of approx. 82 km between the winning area loca
The highways and waterways agency Rijkswaterstaat has just announced that preparations are underway for the beach nourishment works at Camperduin and Petten-Zuid, in the Dutch province of North Holland. As reported, the preparation began last week and beach nourishments are set to commence in early
