Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch-owned shipbuilding company with operations in 120 countries and 175 vessels delivered annually, has adopted Matterport digital twins to facilitate remote collaboration for internal and external stakeholders. With access to Matterport’s rich, dimensionally accurate data
Worldwide, sand reserves are dwindling, while more and more sand is needed to protect coasts against rising sea levels. As part of the National Science Agenda, a study will be launched focusing on the ecological optimisation of sand extraction in the North Sea. In this project, government authoritie
Coastal Partners – part of Havant Borough Council – have just announced that work is underway on the next South Hayling Beach recycling campaign. Beach recycling is the movement of material from areas of beach build up to areas of erosion. This helps to restore beach levels and increase the standard
Martens en Van Oord, specialising in roadworks and civil and hydraulic engineering, is once again in the Port of Antwerp. The MvO dredging crews are now busy working on the deepening operations in the Vierde Havendok area of the Port. “The Port of Antwerp is a well-known site to us, in 2019 and 2020
The Port of Gdańsk, one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea, has been a huge construction site in recent years. An investment of key importance to the development of the Inner Port has just been completed, related to the deepening of the fairway and the modernisation of more than 5 km of quays
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) are organising a webinar to discuss the findings of the SAVi Assessment of the Hondsbossche and Pettemer (H&P) sea dunes. The webinar on the Hondsbossche and Pettemer (H&P) s
Remu Oy’s Big Float E22 with Hyundai 220 is currently busy working on a very important restoration project in Lithuania. The Nemunas River and the Curonian Lagoon from Kaunas to Klaipeda in Lithuania form an inland waterway of international importance E41 – part of the Trans-European Transport Netwo
The latest IADC-CEDA Fact Sheet “Creating a Sustainable Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure” is now available in the IADC Knowledge Centre. Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure is the collection of waterborne works at coastlines, estuaries, rivers, canals and in port areas. In general, such works p
Build of yet another Audex dredger is well underway at the Chesterfield factory, Atlantic Pumps said. The package now includes the welfare and control cabin for operator comfort and real time monitoring of all functions. “Our small dredgers are ideal for quarry use and can be operated in shallow wat
W&O Supply has signed a new agreement with one of the world’s leading civil engineering and dredging companies, Jan De Nul Group. The contract expands upon the existing ten-year relationship, and will see W&O supply marine valves and instrumentation to Jan De Nul to meet the needs of its complex and
A water injection dredging project is currently underway in the east channel of the River Severn in Gloucester. According to Land & Water, the dredging vessel has moved up the river to dredge the upstream and downstream approaches on the river locks. Once completed, debris clearance will take place
Van Oord’s hopper dredger Rotterdam arrived in Harwich Harbour this morning to carry out routine maintenance dredging under the £120m capital Channel Deepening project. With a carrying capacity of 38,000 DWT, TSHD Rotterdam is amongst the largest dredging vessels ever to visit the harbour. From appr
