According to the latest announcement from Royal BAM Group, the company is expecting project losses totaling approximately €75 million. The main reasons for the losses are: Deterioration of a large civil engineering project in Germany which is one of the handful of lossmaking projects reported last y
Minister of State for Transport Baroness Kramer was in Gloucestershire, Friday 4 July, to find out how the county is rising to the challenge of recovering from winter flooding and see how government funding is helping it to be better prepared for severe weather. The minister visited the Severnside v
Royal IHC Sells Its Stake in IHC Sealing Solutions Royal IHC (IHC), the global leader in shipbuilding for the dredging and offshore industries, has reached an agreement to sell 100% of its shares in its subsidiary IHC Sealing Solutions. Sheriff Investigates Vehicle Dredged from Duluth-Superior Har
Fugro has taken delivery of the first of three Fugro Offshore Coastal Survey Vessels (FOCSV) being built by Damen. The first of a new class, the Fugro Proteus is a compact, survey ship capable of undertaking a wide range of survey, monitoring and inspection operations. The vessel is designed for a v
APSS (Port Authority of Setubal and Sesimbra) has issued a tender invitation for maintenance dredging works. The work will consist of dredging of the navigation channels and basins at the Port of Setubal. The Port of Setubal is a natural port located on the Sado Estuary that possesses natural condit
Many developing countries have no adequate tools for an efficient flood risk management. With the increasing availability of large scale datasets, and new generations of weather and flood forecasting models, tools for assessing floods risk at the large scale are currently being developed. Recently,
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS announces that Le Havre in France has chosen to implement CARIS Bathy DataBASE and Spatial Fusion Enterprise for the management and distribution of their bathymetric data. The harbour of Le Havre, or Grand Port Maritime du Havre, is located in
For the week commencing 7th July 2014, the Port of Wells dredging scheme will resume in the main channel. The Port’s dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel north of number 4 buoy, between buoys 4 and 2. All material dredged from these areas will be placed on t
From 19 to 22 May, an international group of participants from seven different countries participated in the pump and slurry training course, organised by the Training Institute for Dredging (TID). The tuition was given at TID’s premises in Kinderdijk and proved to be a great success once again. Dur
The owners of the respective harbours, municipalities of Umeå and Vaasa, have agreed to set up a joint company, Kvarkenhamnar AB. The new entity with head office in Umeå will take over port management from the Swedish and Finnish local governments as from the 1st of January, 2015. Kvarkenhamnar AB w
The trailing suction hopper dredger Breughel has a length of 122.19 meters and a breadth of 28.00 meters. It was designed for dredging in both deep and shallow waters, providing extensive flexibility. The Breughel has a hopper capacity of 11,650 m3 and a carrying capacity of 18,710 tons. The Breughe
The “Anita Conti” is a trailing suction hopper dredger equipped with a 800 mm trailing pipe, which operates at a max dredging depth of -22 m. The dredger is the last of a series of three vessels, designed by MURUETA, equipped with customized Damen dredging systems. The “Anita Conti” has a gross tonn
