Port of Hamburg announced yesterday that the fairway adjustment of the Elbe is on its home stretch. In the final stage this week, the cutter-head suction dredger (CSD) Fernão de Magalhães – owned by Jan De Nul – will do the remaining work on the Elbe river bed. This is the first time that a [&hellip
Works on the latest phase of a scheme, which will reduce the risk of coastal flooding for more than 4,500 homes and businesses on Portsea Island, continue to progress, Mackley reports. The £58m North Portsea Island Coastal Defense Scheme, which is being delivered by the Eastern Solent Coastal Partne
Contracted by the Dutch Province of Friesland, Van Oord has successfully installed five Atlantis tubes in Lake IJsselmeer near Kornwerderzand. The 340 metre long dam is part of the construction work for the Fish Migration River project. Atlantis tubes are elongated bags made of specially developed p
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) recently announced the successful completion of the sizable port construction project in Duqm, Oman. For this extraordinary EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) project Boskalis dredged a new harbor basin and entrance channel with a depth of 18 m
The Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), Patrick O’Donovan TD, visited Rosslare Strand last week to announce €7 million funding for further coastal protection and flood relief projects in the area. Minister O’Donovan met with local public representatives, Counc
Fingal County Council, Ireland, will hold six live online consultation events in the following days on coastal defense proposals for Portrane and Rush. The consultation sessions will include a presentation by RPS on the studies undertaken, the proposed coastal defence scheme and a Question and Answe
Lotos Shipyard (Southern Center of Shipbuilding and Ship Repair of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) last week started with steel cutting operations for the self-propelled bucket-wheel dredgers, United Shipbuilding Corporation reports. The works are foreseen by the contract signed by Lotos Shipya
Portsmouth’s Southsea Coastal Scheme got underway today with the construction of coastal defenses beginning between Long Curtain Moat and Clarence Pier. The first of six phases in the Portsmouth City Council-led project came after some 10 years of planning and public consultation. Works include the
FSUE Rosmorport and Novotrans Group have signed an agreement for the implementation of LUGAPORT project in Ust-Luga, Russia. The agreement on cooperation under the LUGAPORT project was signed by Andrey Lavrishchev, General Director of FSUE Rosmorport and Konstantin Goncharov, President of Novotrans
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has been following the Government’s advisory measures with regard to limiting the spread of the virus. To comply with these regulations, IADC has decided to postpone its 2020 Seminars on Dredging and Rec
Only one week after receiving the order, Damen Dredging successfully delivered a DOP submersible dredge pump, type DOP150 from stock. According to Damen, the client Dredging Africa will use the equipment to boost their dredging operations in the region. More specifically, this pump will work at a va
During the first eight months of 2020, FSUE “Rosmorport” successfully removed over 4.5 million cubic meters of dredged material from the federal waterways. According to the company, Rosmorport fulfilled the maintenance dredging plan by 55 % in the amount of 4.56 million cubic meters. However, for 20
