The keel laying ceremony for DEME’s cutter suction dredger ‘Spartacus’ took place today at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel in the Netherlands. The ceremony marks a milestone in the construction of the most powerful cutter suction dredger that has ever been built. “The combination of
The deepening works on the southern Rauma fairway were completed last month and the fairway began operations with a maximum authorized draught of 12 meters on 15 December 2017, the Port of Rauma said in their latest announcement. The new draught makes it possible for larger vessels than before to en
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig yesterday dismissed the lawsuits brought by private property owners in Övelgönne and Blankenese against the planning decisions on the deepening of the Lower and Outer Elbe fairway. The Port of Hamburg announced that the planning authority came rightly to t
The Sabetta project (North Russia) was Jan De Nul’s biggest logistic challenge in the last couple of years, the Luxembourg based dredging and marine construction company said in their annual report. The Sabetta Port is being built to transport gas stocks from Siberia to Europe and Asia with LNG tank
JBA Consulting has started to design a 400 meter rock revetment and flood wall structure for the Rhyl coastal flood management scheme. In the following days, a physical model of the design will be built by the Queensland Government Hydraulics Laboratory, supervised by Dan Rodger and Gildas Colleter
One of the largest container ports on the Swedish east coast, the Port of Gavle is working on an expansion project that will double the port’s capacity by the end of 2019. Since its inception ten years ago, the port has reported large volume increases in its container traffic almost annually. “In or
Sinn Fein TD for Wicklow/East Carlow, John Brady, has received an update from the Environmental Protection Agency about the coastal protection works at Bray North Beach landfill. Commenting the latest information on this capital coastal scheme, John Brady said: “After numerous discussions with Dún L
The Environment Agency yesterday announced the official opening of new flood defenses in Rugeley, Staffordshire. Members of the Environment Agency, Cannock Chase District Council, the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Rugeley Town Council, Staffordshire County Coun
Italdraghe, an Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, delivered a cutter suction dredger to Romania last month. The vessel, completely manufactured in Italdraghe shipyard, is electrically driven and has been applied to a plant processing the raw water capture
Aberdeenshire-based Aleron Subsea has deployed AUXROV subsea system as a part of a wrecks salvage project in the Atlantic Ocean. Aleron’s AUXROV was selected by James Fisher Marine and Britannia’s Gold to assist with the salvage operation, targeting wrecks that were sunk during the WWI and WWII. Dur
The Port of Dover has just posted the latest video from the Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR) development project. VSBW, the joint venture between Boskalis Westminster and VolkerStevin, has been appointed as the main contractor for the marine civil engineering stage of the DWDR development. This fi
Onego Shipyard LLC, (Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia) has launched the self-propelled hopper Silnaya with a 600-cbm hold, announced FSUE Rosmorport. According to the new owner, the vessel is intended for dredged material transportation. The Silnaya is the second barge in the series of three vessel
