“Today we are clearing the way for international shipping and trade. That’s typical of the Netherlands. That’s how we became big. With Maasvlakte 2, the Netherlands is throwing the door wide open to the newest generation of container ships. And we offer space for the latest terminals. The port is gr
To increase safety for the public, the UK Environment Agency has hired two new Doosan DX340LC-3 Stage IIIB compliant crawler excavators from Lynch Plant Hire to demolish and remove steel box piles, rails and wood that made up old groynes on the beach at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The new DX340LC-3 excava
Construction work will begin this week on improvements to the 4.2 kilometres of the flood defences on the River Parrett between Willow Bridge near Stathe and Monks Leaze Clyse, near Combe. The works will involve raising sections of the right bank of the River Parrett between Allermoor Spillway and B
Construction is now underway on Liverpool2, Peel Ports’ £300 million in-river container terminal which will enable post-Panamax vessels of up to 13,500 TEU to call directly at the Port of Liverpool. A dredging operation to remove one million cubic metres of material from the seabed will be launched
To avoid a repetition of the events that occurred as a result of the Kura River bursting its banks and in accordance with a presidential decree, the Ministry for Emergency Situations has delivered to Baku suction dredgers CSD-500 manufactured by Damen Dredging. The total length of the unit is 49.10
The Tyne Gorge is very prone to silting and must be constantly dredged to maintain its depth. This video shows dredging program next to the Cemex Jetty at Jarrow. Port of Tyne and UK Dredging vessels work constantly to keep the river clear. [mappress] Dredging Today Staff, June 5, 2013
The new Chairman of Young CEDA, Arjan de Heer was introduced to the worldwide dredging community during the opening of WODCON XX. Arjan is civil engineer with a specialist background in coastal and river morphology, dredging and reclamation processes and their impact on the environment. He graduated
CEDA announces that the leading dredging event WODCON XX opened its doors on June 3, 2013. Here are some lines from the eminent speakers at this prestigious event. “In the future, the dredging industry has a crucial and constructive role to play responding to many of the future challenges with regar
An innovative Broads restoration project has been commended at a prestigious national awards ceremony. Work to restore an eroded reed bed and spit of land at Salhouse Broad using dredged sediment from the nearby river was celebrated at the 2013 Water Renaissance Awards in Birmingham on Thursday 30th
Europort (November 5-8 2013, Ahoy Rotterdam) is without a doubt the most complete maritime exhibition in the world. Over 31,000 maritime professionals from all segments of the shipbuilding industry, from naval to dredging and from fishery to offshore, are brought together in one state-of-art exhibit
Last Saturday the cutter suction dredger “Susanna II” was baptized and handed over to its owner, dredging contractor Verboon Maasland. All members of the Verboon team were present with their families to celebrate the completion of the vessel. After the required speeches and the bottle of champagne a
The preparatory work for large infrastructure projects often consumes an extraordinary amount of time, money and human resources and is not particularly cost-effective. Some of this inefficiency is caused by traditional procurement methods which bring contractors into the process after many key deci
