North East Lincolnshire Council, UK, has just announced that work will start tomorrow on a project that will improve the water quality of the River Freshney in Grimsby. For around 6 weeks, a specialist contractor, Ebsford Environmental, have been appointed to undertake dredging of the river between
Wärtsilä Marine recently released a case study about how they have helped Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC deliver sister ship for world-class UAE-based dredger. In dredging operations, the ability to accurately maintain course and speed is essential. That’s why National Marine Dredging Company specified
Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has handled what is believed to be the largest number of containers ever on a single ship in Europe. A total of 23,773 TEU (standard containers) were handled on the 24,000 TEU MSC DILETTA which completed operations and sailed from the port on January 12, 2022. Comm
Denbighshire County Council has launched a consultation on proposals to improve coastal defences at Rhyl, between Drift Park and Splash Point. The 28-day pre-application consultation for the Central Rhyl Coastal Defences Scheme will run between January 12 and February 9 and gives residents and other
Environment Agency is about to start work on a £6.5 million flood risk management scheme to reduce the risk of flooding for 350 homes and businesses in Stoke-on-Trent. The scheme is designed to reduce the risk of flooding from the the Fowlea Brook, a 6-mile tributary of the River Trent, when water l
Chevron Marine Lubricant’s low sulphated ash trunk piston engine oil Chevron HDAX 9700 has achieved an important recognition, by becoming the first lubricant to gain time-unrestricted approval for use with MAN Energy Solutions’ four-stroke engines running on either LNG or distillate fuels (with a su
Winter dredging is well underway again with the new look split hopper barges Nab and Needles both back hard at work in the Solent area, Jenkins Marine said. Working together with Jenkins’ 30m x 9m backhoe dredger ‘Doreen Dorward’ and her onboard 50t long reach excavator, they enable dredging to cont
CDES, a Luzancy (Seine-et-Marne) based marine specialist, has won the Port of Saint-Jacques dredging contract, located in Sarzeau, north-western France. The works, aimed to effectively and sustainably solve the problems of silting in the area, will include removal of 4000 m3 of material. According t
Kooiman Marine Group has just announced that they are embarking on another exciting project, lengthening of the trailing suction hopper dredger Swalinge. The Swalinge was built as a coaster in 1977 and rebuilt into a hopper dredger after being purchased by Den Herder Seaworks in 1996. This single pr
Van Oord’s white paper makes a bold statement about accelerating the energy transition. “In our white paper, we pledge to contribute actively to accelerating the energy transition. That means investing in vessels, investing in people and investing in the value chain. In a way, we are developing a ne
Baars Charter B.V. together with Merceron recently completed a port expansion project on the west coast of France – dredging the harbour of La Turballe. For this job, in addition to dredging equipment from Merceron, Baars type B113 split barge was used to transport dredged sediment, sand and water.
The dredging of the fairway to the Danish Port of Thyboron – Thyboron Canal – is now complete. A water depth of 10m in the fairway from the North Sea and between the pier heads into the outer harbour and all the way down to the Limfjordskaj quays in Sydhavnen is now a reality. For […]
