Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership and Portsmouth City Council’s coastal engineering team have started work on the Tipner Lake Coastal Defense scheme. The scheme, part of the overall North Portsea Island Coastal Flood Defenses, will run from the Mountbatten Centre, Twyford Avenue to the Ports Creek
The new Easydredge 3700 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Mahaa Jarraafu is set to arrive in the Maldives by the end of this month, the Corporate Maldives reports. The $36 million dredger, built by Royal IHC for the Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC), was launched in January 2017
A major annual scheme to replenish Lincshore beaches gets underway this month, reports the Environment Agency. The EA’s flagship Lincshore scheme involves dredging sand from the seabed and pumping it onto the beach, replacing levels lost to the sea during the winter. According to the agency, this ye
Wartsila has been contracted to supply a comprehensive package of engines and propulsion machinery for a new cutter suction dredger (CSD) vessel. When delivered, the ‘Spartacus’, which is being built on behalf of Belgium based Dredging International (DEME), will be the world’s most powerful CSD and
Young CEDA Belgium recently organized a visit to the dredging and beach replenishment site in Knokke, Belgium. The EUR17 million Knokke beach fill project has been awarded to the joint venture ‘Noordzee en Kust’, of which Jan De Nul is part. For this coastal protection project, JDN mobilized its tra
Christchurch Borough Council, working in partnership with The Dorset Coastal Community Team (DCCT), has just been awarded £424,000 to deliver coastal projects in Christchurch. The BID, which was submitted to the Coastal Community Fund in 2016, aimed to connect people to the coast, connect coastal co
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) recently released the article named ‘Environmental dredging of a chromium contaminated fjord’. The article, written by authors from DEME, gives a detailed look into the efforts made to complete the environmental dredging works in Valdemarsvi
Trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Magdalen was launched last Friday, March 31, at Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton yard in Panama City, Florida. The vessel, being built for Weeks Marine Inc., has already been earmarked for a project at the end of this year. Design and engineering of the 6,
Seán Canney, T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief has outlined the range of measures being taken to address flood risk on the River Shannon. Speaking yesterday at the Environ 2017 Conference, the minister said, “The Shannon Flood Risk Stat
UniSite Group, a Ningbo based company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, has reported very busy start of 2017 business year, taking an active part in a lot of projects all over the world. During this period, the C
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has announced that they seminar ‘Dredging in Wales, A Review and Forward Look’, co-promoted by the ICE Wales Region, will take place on Tuesday, 9 May 2017, at Novotel Cardiff Center, Cardiff. “CEDA are holding their spring seminar in Wales and have brought to
Saudi Arabia’s dredging operator, Huta Marine recently awarded Dutch system integrator Bakker Sliedrecht with a lifetime extension project for the electrical installation of the CSD Huta 4. According to Bakker Sliedrecht, the aim of the project is to extend the lifetime of the 36-year-old cutter suc
