Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 17-23, 2016). Royal IHC Adjusts Its Business Strategy As a direct consequence of persistently poor market conditions, Royal IHC, supplier of maritime equipment, is fine-tuning its strategy. PHOTO NEWS:
Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment of the Netherlands, Melanie Schultz van Haegen, will visit Iran from Sunday 23 to Friday 28 October, accompanied by a delegation of Dutch companies. With this visit, the Minister intends to strengthen the economic ties in order for the Dutch companies t
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive Officer, was among a delegation of senior managers from the Environment Agency who paid a visit to the site where Team Van Oord has started work on a scheme to provide better protection from flooding for the residents of Shoreham-by-Sea. The party was there to witnes
Waterking BV, a Dutch company involved in the production of amphibious excavators, has presented a complete new multi purpose machine, equipped with Damen dredge pump. Earlier this month, this Waterking Multi Dredger completed its first successful test for a customer from Hungary. The machine has an
IHC Robbins, specialized in the heavy minerals mining and processing, metallurgical testwork, practical engineering and specialized equipment, is further strengthening its position on the West Coast through the appointment of Mr Greg Jones. Mr Jones is the company’s Resource & Business Development M
Central Dredging Association (CEDA) will be co-hosting a conference, with the Portuguese Engineers Association in Lisbon from 27-28th October. The CEDA Iberian Conference, with the central theme ‘Dredging for sustainable port development’, will be a platform for environmental engineering and managem
Dragflow, an Italian manufacturer of heavy duty pumps and complete dredging equipment, has supplied a remote controlled dredger to a company in Germany, for tailing ponds cleaning. The request from the coal open mine (RWE) was to have a machine capable of dredging sediments from 3 ponds where all th
Italdraghe SpA, an Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, delivered another Marina Master 8000 dredger to Brighton, in September 2016, and another one of the same will be delivered to the United Kingdom in the following weeks. This is the second dredger of it
DEME has won the second edition of the “Entrepreneur for Entrepreneurs Trophy” as most sustainable company 2016. The trophy honors companies from the North that sustainably promote entrepreneurship in the South. The prize was handed out yesterday in attendance of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister f
A second party of students from the University of Brighton will visit the Clay’s Lake project in West Sussex next week, as part of Mackley’s latest initiative to provide aspiring civil engineers with real life experience. Taking place on Monday, October 24, around 45 students will visit the site whe
Dredging operations on the Port of Sabetta and at the seaway canal in the Gulf of Ob scheduled for 2016 have now been wrapped up, according to the FSUE Rosmorport’s latest announcement. The scope of the performed dredging work in 2016 totaled 17.5 million m³, involving 23 units of equipment. These d
Van Oord and GMB are about to use innovative dike pins for the first time on a dike improvement project between Hagestein and Opheusden, the Netherlands. The great advantage of this dike reinforcement technique is that it can be used in places where working space is limited. The client, Rivierenland
