Canal & River Trust is starting a £1.6 million program of improvements to the reservoirs at Earlswood. The works, which are required to ensure the reservoirs are compliant with reservoir legislation, will require some local footpaths to be temporarily closed from 13 April, and some local roads from
DEME Group is participating in an innovative environmental project to make the use of clean dredged material much more efficient in the Rhine-Meuse estuary. The main goal of the project is to deliver knowledge and new techniques for sustainable sediment management. Following dredging operations, a l
New major dredging campaign is now underway at the Port of Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest and busiest container port and one of the largest in Europe. Last week, the tug Dutch Power towed backhoe dredger Nordic Giant (55m LOA) to begin dredging operations on Felixstowe’s number 7 berth. This stage of
Around 2.3 million cubic meters of material is to be dredged in Sabetta port in 2021-2022, including 1 million cbm in 2021 and 1.3 million cbm in 2022, according to Aleksandr Bengert, General Director of Hydrographic Company. During the recent “Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging” congress
After successful completion of the commissioning tests on the Dutch coastline and Haringvliet, Royal IHC officially handed over the cutter suction dredger (CSD) MOHAB MAMEESH to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Thursday 18 March. With the delivery of the 29,190kW heavy-duty rock CSD, SCA now owns o
Anthony D Bates Partnership (ADBP) is celebrating a major milestone in its history – they recently reached the landmark of its 600th dredging consultancy project. According to Colm Sheehan, Partner – Dredging Consultant at ADBP, the honour of receiving the prestigious job number of 600 has fallen to
Yesterday was an exciting day for Foyle and Marine Dredging as they took delivery of the Hitachi EX1200 Excavator. The ‘Grizzly 2.0’ is a monster of a machine with a 30-metre reach and a 20-metre dig depth with a 4m3 bucket capacity. The EX1200 is a unique excavator within the Hitachi range, adaptin
Over the last couple of weeks Royal IHC hosted three interesting webinars for their clients, contacts and relations in the African region. During these webinars IHC gave the attendees more insight in the world of dredging and shared Royal IHC’s knowledge in all aspects of the dredging process. The c
Following completion of the beach management activities throughout February at Eastoke, stormy weather affected the south coast of England. Coastal Partners, part of Havant Borough Council, reported that the beach bore the brunt of these storms and prevented flooding from occurring. The storms cause
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) recently published an interesting article on the re-use of dredged material for shoreline protection: Working with Nature in the Arabian Gulf. Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest in exploring innovative ways to minimise
The Port of Rotterdam has just announced that experiments are being conducted to determine the reuse of clean dredged material in Rijnmond area. These practical trials at three locations in the Rijnmond area should provide insight into the possibilities for reusing dredged sand and sludge elsewhere
Seven months after an historic breach on the Union Canal near Muiravonside, Scottish Canals has now restored the structure of the waterway and refilled the canal with water. Early on the 12th of August 2020 a one in 240-year storm resulted in a breach of the Union Canal near Muiravonside, which was
