Damen Shipyards has just released this beautiful video about their DOP250 dredge pump on a wire crane, doing a beach replenishment job on the Mediterranean coast in Italy. Due to coastal erosion the beach in the Gulf of Follonica has diminished rapidly, said Damen. The DOP submersible dredge pump ha
The Peel Marina dredging program, located in the town of Peel, Isle of Man, is moving forward according to schedule, Land & Water just announced. “As part of a large-scale project, we have constructed a temporary draining lagoon in a field upstream of the marina. Now, our team is using a long reach
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (April 27-May 3, 2020). Gulf of Ob Dredging Deal Inked FSUE Hydrographic Company and Mordraga have signed an agreement for reconstruction of the Gulf of Ob seaway canal where the Novatek’s Utrenny terminal is bein
Jan De Nul Group’s largest cutter suction dredger (CSD) Willem van Rubroeck has successfully arrived at the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. The trip on board of the semi-submersible transport vessel ‘Hua Yang Long’ took 2.5 weeks. The vessel was unloaded offshore and then towed to the shipyard
Dredging Today team has just found this frightening video of an accident during a dredging project. The man operating the excavator had just jumped out of the cab at the last minute. Unfortunately, equipment fails and drownings are common accidents among dredge workers. Each type of dredger uses spe
Removal of the old north breakwater has officially started, Port of Frederikshavn, Denmark, said in their latest announcement. The entire north breakwater incl. the breakwater head is to be removed in connection with the establishment of the new quay area by Østre Kaj, which is to create space for O
A broad consortium of investors and industry partners from the dredging and offshore sectors and the existing international syndicate of banks of Royal IHC, including the three major Dutch banks, have reached a Heads of Agreement for the acquisition and refinancing. This gives Royal IHC, as an impor
In the first three months of 2020, the volume of dredging works carried out by the fleet of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority exceeded 700,000 cubic meters. Compared to the first quarter of 2019 (160,000m³), the company increased the dredging volume by 540,000m³. According to the company, the positive d
In February and March 2020 the Environment Agency held a number of drop-in sessions in north Reading and Lower Caversham regarding the proposed flood alleviation scheme. Due to the escalation in the UK’s response to the coronavirus the the final event scheduled for Friday 20 March was cancelled. At
Works on a coastal defense scheme in the West Sussex village of Elmer are nearing completion, Mackley informs. The Elmer Coastal Defense Scheme is being carried out by Mackley, working as part of Team Van Oord, on behalf of the Environment Agency, Arun District Council and Elmer Sands Limited. The p
Femern A/S is activating the main construction contracts with Femern Link Contractors (FLC) with effect from January 1, 2021. the project owner said in their latest release. This means that construction of the large scale tunnel element factory at Rødbyhavn can get underway. November 2019 saw the st
Watermaster has just released this amazing video from the recently completed Cellulose Aeration Lagoon Dredging Project in Chile. Under the scheme, a pulp mill development and expansion project required the removal of more than 120,000m³ of organic sludge from an aeration lagoon of the effluent plan
