Teledyne RESON has just released a very interesting paper named ‘Innovative spill measurement for wirecrane and excavator dredging‘. “Monitoring of what happens underwater always has been a challenge. Dredge guidance and monitoring software have the advantage that they show the position of the bucke
Investing in ‘green infrastructure’ like restoring floodplains or wetlands to bolster flood prevention not only generates more environmental and socio-economic benefits, especially in the long term, but also lowers the amount of financial investment needed to defend against damaging floods. This is
Royal IHC and Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) have been nominated for the Innovative Support Services award for setting up Africa’s first dredging school. The award recognizes support services that enable or enrich the dredging sector that do not include physical dredging activity: examples
The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new APM Terminals Quetzal, aimed to transform Guatemala’s port sector by offering the highest productivity port operations in the country, took place yesterday, the company said in their latest announcement. APM Terminals Quetzal has a capacity of 340,000 TEUs and
As we are slowly approaching the end of the year, it is a good moment to look back at the developments of last year and look forward to 2018. 2017 was a turbulent year for the maritime, offshore and energy sector in Holland and beyond, and will keep posing challenges in 2018. Precisely because of [&
FSUE “Rosmorport” has received a permit for the construction of sea port infrastructure in Pionersky, Kaliningrad Region. Along with this permit, the company also obtained permits to carry out land reclamation works. Overall the new sea terminal project includes, berth constructions works, coastal p
Damen Shipyards Group will hold its first African Dredging Seminar on 23rd November at Damen Shipyards Cape Town. The seminar will be attended by personnel from Damen and its suppliers as well as representative of the South African Government and TNPA. The seminar is open to all with an interest in
Last week, FSUE “Rosmorport” announced that the company has obtained a permit to put an artificially created plot of land in the seaport of Sabetta into operation. The reclamation project, which has created approx. 14.75 hectares of new land, was performed under the “Seaport Facilities Construction
Royal IHC recently announced that the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Shanti Sagar 17 successfully completed sea trials. The new TSHD – built for Adani Group – was lunched at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands, on 31 March 2017. This is the first of two Beagle 8 TSH
Deltares will team up with the University of Twente and Delft University of Technology to improve the understanding of sand transport in the swash zone, and the predictive power of the company’s models. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO has announced the approval of the Shapin
Sea Machines Robotics has announced a collaboration with TUCO Marine of Denmark to offer remote and autonomous control products as factory options in their line of ProZero workboats. The TUCO Marine Group manufactures a range of modern efficient workboats at its Faaborg, Denmark, location and is spe
The technology group Wartsila has supplied the full propulsion package for the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Arzana. The vessel is owned by National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) from Abu Dhabi and has been specially designed to operate in high ambient temperatures. The 6.000m³ capacit
