Caterpillar has just launched their new Cat 306 CR Mini Hydraulic Excavator, marking the company’s entry in the 6-ton class offering. According to Caterpillar, the 306 CR mini excavator is built to exceed customer expectations with strong performance, enhanced operator experience and simplified main
Jan De Nul Group has officially kicked off the deepening and widening operations in the inner port channel and turning basin of the large ore export Port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. With these works on the 25-km long entrance channel to the mineral terminal of Port of Nouadhibou, the National Industr
Properties in Godalming, Surrey, England, will be better protected from flooding thanks to a brand new flood alleviation scheme. The construction of the scheme cost approximately £4.5 million and the Environment Agency contributed approximately a third of the cost, through government grant-in-aid. G
DSC Dredge, a Louisiana based company involved in customized dredging solutions, won bid for a new, non-propelled, cutter suction head dredge solicited by The Marine Design Center (MDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) earlier this month. “When completed, the new cutter suction head dredg
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 7 – October 13, 2019). Nieuwe Waterweg and Botlek Dredging Work Wraps Up The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority last week celeb
DEME Group’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Lange Wapper is currently busy working on the New Lock mega project in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. Under this project, sand is being dredged and discharged through a 1km pipeline in the reclamation area of the new lock complex. During the works, th
Parts of the mining cutter suction dredger (CSD) Julia dredge and the Wet Concentrator Plant for the WCP C development are arriving on site at the Moma Mine in Mozambique, Kenmare Resources plc said in their latest announcement. The dredger was dismantled and than shipped from the Netherlands to Moz
UniSite Group, a Ningbo based company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, took part in some very significant projects all over the world in the third quarter of 2019. Q3 Highlights: UniSite successfully supplied nu
Jan De Nul Group recently completed the capital dredging works for the Channel Risk and Optimization Project (CROP) in Port Hedland, Western Australia. Over the past three years a combination of Hopper Dredgers, a Cutter Suction Dredger and Split Hopper Barges were deployed to dredge sections of the
Representing the World Organisation of Dredging Associations comprising CEDA, WEDA and EADA, Dr. Craig Vogt, Chairman of the WEDA Environment Commission, presented the recently published two CEDA papers on beneficial use of sediments at the currently ongoing meeting of the IMO London Convention and
Aberdeen Harbor Board has announced a new construction schedule for the South Harbor Expansion Project. The program is based on a phased completion of South Harbor in 2021. Michelle Handforth, Chief Executive of Aberdeen Harbor Board, said: “Construction at South Harbor has progressed significantly
Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology recently successfully supplied a power supply system for the sand dredger Veluwemeer, which belongs to the RuwBouw Groep from Harderwijk. The new installation consists of a 1000 kVA containerized diesel generator that is placed on deck and supplies the desludging syste
