During the first six months of this year, the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority already invested approximately EUR 24 million into the development of the port’s infrastructure. According to their latest announcement, although the pandemic caused confusion in the business sector, not a single investme
Composit LLC, Kursk based developer and producer of wear-resistant rubber hoses, has just released this beautiful photo of their floating hose at a dredging site in Bashkortostan Republic, Russia. Today, in different parts of the Russian Federation, the season of dredging, cleaning up of the rivers,
The International Association of Dredging Companies’ (IADC) latest edition of their Terra et Aqua magazine featured a very interesting article named ‘Assessing and evaluating environmental turbidity limits for dredging’. The maintenance and development of ports, harbors and waterways requires dredgi
The Flemish government, Port of Antwerp and contractor SeReAnt (a partnership between the Jan De Nul GROUP and DEME environmental companies) will begin dredging and processing the most polluted dredging sludge at the port, the so-called TBT sludge, this month. “After years of research, there is now
The latest vessel to visit A&P Falmouth for a standard dry docking is the trailing suction hopper dredger City of Cardiff, A&P Group Limited said in their latest announcement. The 72-metre long vessel, owned by Tarmac Marine Dredging Ltd., is undergoing dredging suction valve and dredging equipment
To protect the Netherlands against high water, Van Oord’s crane vessels are restoring the foreshore at 10 locations in the Western Scheldt Estuary. According to the company’s latest announcement, erosion has affected the foreshore in various places and therefore no longer meets the safety standards.
Bakker Sliedrecht has won a contract to supply its innovative condition monitoring system for measuring vibration of bearings in submersible motors to trailing suction hopper dredger Jun Yang 1, the largest trailing suction hopper dredger in China at the moment. Condition monitoring is a way to impr
For the last couple of months, the MV Yed Prior has been docked at the Royal Niestern Sander shipyard in Delfzijl for a conversion. The vessel is being converted from a container ship to a gravel dredger for the fa. Spaansen. According to the Niestern Sander, the Yed Prior conversion project is expe
Richmond MP Rishi Sunak visited Stokesley on Friday, 31 July to learn more about the town’s new £3.7m Flood Alleviation Scheme. During the visit, Mr Sunak was shown around areas of the town that will benefit from the scheme by representatives from the Environment Agency. Earlier this month, the gove
VolkerStevin has been shortlisted for three British Construction Industry Awards 2020. These prestigious awards, in partnership with ICE and the New Civil Engineer, have been running for over 30 years and seek to recognise and reward excellence in project delivery and the incredible impact that the
Land and Water Services has just released the latest update on their dredging project at Peel Marina, located in the town of Peel, Isle of Man. “We are extremely proud to share that our dedicated project team is approaching completion of phase one of the project. This project will safeguard the viab
VBA, a joint venture between VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and SNC Lavalin’s Atkins business, has completed the final section of the sea defense works at Fairhaven Lake, and the promenade is now open to the public. The Fairhaven coastal protection scheme involved the replacement of the sea defe
