During the recent Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress in Moscow, FSUE Rosmorport shared the company’s dredging plans for 2021. According to the forecast, FSUE Rosmorport will dredge 28.3 million cbm of material in 2021 including 20 million cbm of capital dredging and 8.3 million c
After the successful placement of spud towers on board the Suez Canal Authority’s new cutter suction dredger Hussein Tantawy, Royal IHC has completed another construction milestone with the installation of both spuds. “The sun was shining down on our team when they installed the deep-blue spuds on t
Following construction of the first five islands of the Marker Wadden, Boskalis will expand this nature reserve with two new islands on behalf of Dutch Society for the Preservation of Nature (Natuurmonumenten) and the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat).
Rohde Nielsen A/S has just released this amazing photo of the hopper dredger Thor R, taken during their recently completed project in Germany. During October and November 2020, Rohde Nielsen A/S performed a maintenance dredging project in the 7-kilometre-long entrance channel to Ladebow. The works w
Residents in 113,000 homes in Hull are now better protected from flooding as the Environment Agency’s £42 million Humber frontages scheme comes to fruition. The new, higher defences built by the EA along the estuary foreshore are now in place, ready to protect the city from tidal surges. The flood d
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is working with the Environment Agency and the South Holderness Internal Drainage Board on a new £600,000 scheme to replace the eroding embankment on the Holderness coastline near Tunstall with a new defense further inland, to control any sea water entering Tunstall
Baggerbedrijf De Boer – Dutch Dredging has started works on the removal of sediments from the Veerhaven port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Because the Veerhaven is a tidal port that has become increasingly shallower over time, the time has come to restore the depth. For the project, Dutch Dredging
The Environment Agency and partners have completed more than 700 projects to better protect more than 300,000 homes since 2015. Exceeding its target in delivering the government’s £2.6 billion investment in flood and coastal defense schemes since 2015, the Environment Agency and partners have comple
The Mediterranean Maritime Hub Malta (MMH) has invested more than €20 million to turn Valletta into a bustling hub for the Maritime and Oil & Gas sectors. The first investment of €8 million went towards the preparation of the site, starting with the dredging of the seabed to a depth of 10.5 meters.
DeloPorts has received a permit from the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) to commission a new deep-water grain berth No. 40A. The berth was successfully constructed within the framework of a large investment plan named “Reconstruction of the Grain Terminal with Increase in
Van Oord has signed a three-year agreement with ABB Turbocharging to provide fleetwide maintenance and optimization services. The agreement comes as two Van Oord vessels receive the first turbocharger upgrades of their kind in the dredger sector, saving thousands of tons in fuel and carbon emissions
Plans to create a large ‘aquagreen’ that will reduce flood risk to homes and businesses near Bransholme in east Hull have been submitted for planning approval, reports the Environment Agency. A public consultation was launched in September 2020 on proposals for a versatile green space, south of the
