Gothenburg City Council last week passed a resolution to grant more than €120,000,000 to finance the Skandia Gateway project – aimed at deepening the fairway leading into the Port of Gothenburg. The sum was matched by the Swedish Transport Administration as part of the national infrastructure plan,
Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership (ESCP) – together with the Fareham Borough Council is starting repair work on the Salterns Recreation Ground Seawall. According to ESCP, it will take around 3 weeks to complete the repairs. The works include the removal and reconstruction of a 25m X 1.4m section of
Cutter suction dredger LUCIO of the Damen CSD500 series is about to begin its journey to Argentina. Built for the Argentinian dredging contractor SERVIMAGNUS, the newbuild is now disassembled and ready for transport. Painted with the customers company colors, the vessel has a modular design to ensur
Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has won a maintenance dredging contract at New Mangalore Port. According to the company, DCI took part in a global tender for “Post monsoon maintenance dredging works at New Mangalore Port”. The tender, released by NMPT during May 2020, involves maintenanc
The McGregor Lake Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project, or HREP, located in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River, recently completed its dredging phase. The 580-acre McGregor Lake HREP includes the mid-river McGregor Lake and adjacent island and slough habitat between the main channel an
Van der Leun North America, Inc. recently won a contract to supply equipment for new Water Injection Dredger (WID). The contract, awarded by the IHC North America, includes construction and commissioning of the electrical switchboards for this new WID. The switchboards will be built in the Netherlan
Setting turbidity limits is a challenging task and requires a general understanding of dredging processes as well as the surrounding environment. An integrated approach, that takes into account all crucial concepts with a balance between protecting the environment and still allowing for dredging in
This week Royal IHC participated at the online Dredging in India Conference. IHC sales manager, Jaco Kleijwegt held a presentation about the company’s dredging solutions and their modular TSHD series Easydredge in particular. The flexible Easydredge concept is ideal for all common maintenance and la
China Railway Group recently launched the HID-CSD-6024 model 5500m3/h cutter suction dredger Shaoshan 1 into the Suya Lake – the largest artificial lake in Asia. The lake was built in 1958 and rebuilt in 1989. In time, a large number of alluvium deposition accumulated, causing serious siltation in
One of the latest additions to NMDC’s (National Marine Dredging Company) fleet of vessels, the backhoe dredger SARB has safely arrived in Abu Dhabi, UAE. After a voyage from Rotterdam, MV Rolldock Sky floated off the SARB in the Port of Mina Zayed. The great co-operation between all parties resulted
DCN Diving of Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, has successfully completed first phase of the mobilisation for the Enguri Dam Dredging Project in Georgia. According to the company, DCN team has developed a purpose-built dredger for this project. The comapany, contracted by Engurhesi Ltd, will use thi
Work on M. Veyvah Harbor is well underway, with overall 39% project progress, Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) reported today. The construction of a concrete wall and the installation of mooring rings are currently ongoing, with 39% and 20% completion respectively. The M. Veyvah Har
Port of Hamburg announced yesterday that the fairway adjustment of the Elbe is on its home stretch. In the final stage this week, the cutter-head suction dredger (CSD) Fernão de Magalhães – owned by Jan De Nul – will do the remaining work on the Elbe river bed. This is the first time that a [&hellip
Central Coast Council, NSW, has mobilized its resources in preparation for The Entrance Channel dredging project to begin within a fortnight. Council’s Acting Environment and Planning Director, Andrew Roach, said that a site compound was being set up this week, with site offices, sheds and security
