The World Organisation of Dredging Associations (WODA) workshop on underwater sound in relation to dredging, will be held on Thursday 26 March 2015, in Paris, France. The effects of underwater sound are an important environmental issue and this is clearly reflected by main policy developments such a
Young CEDA Commission (YCC) will have their next meeting on 20 February 2015 in Antwerp. Subjects on the agenda are the CEDA Dredging Days 2015 with a separate program for young professionals, the media coverage and Young CEDA excursions and seminars planned for 2015. Young CEDA Commission has repre
Dredging operations are about to begin in the inner Montrose Harbour and navigation channel. The dredger Shearwater will perform the job with regular trips to Lunan Bay and Montrose Beach. “Mariners are requested to navigate with caution and give the dredger Shearwater as wide a berth as possible at
DRAGFLOW team is at work for a cutting edge project: design a new and reliable system to detect seals’ damages in submersible pumps. The goal is to reduce maintenance costs and water contamination’s risks. This project is funded by FESR, Regional Development European Fund and is fulfill in collabora
Today we are bringing you this beautiful photo of Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger J.F.J. De Nul, built by IHC Holland’s Kinderdijk yard. This dredger is the most powerful vessel of its type in the world. The cutter suction dredgers (CSD) are equipped with a rotating cutter head cutting hard soil
Subsea Tooling Services (STS) recently completed final tests of their new Predator Subsea Dredger at its open-water site in Fort William. Their main objective was to prove that the Predator Subsea Dredger was as efficient as other dredgers that are currently on the market. As this dredging system is
After years of decline work has begun to help restore one of Wales’ finest sand dune systems. Over the last 60 years Newborough Warren on Anglesey has lost a staggering 94% of open, mobile sand dunes as they became over-grown with grass and trees. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has already removed de
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Boskalis has sold its road maintenance company Aannemingsbedrijf De Jong en Zoon Beheer B.V. and the associated De Jong subsidiaries (De Jong) to the management and Foreman Capital. The De Jong activities were taken over at the end of 2011 as part of the acquisit
DEME has just released a video about the reuse of dredged materials on its two projects, namely on the river Seine, Courval in France and London, Gateway in the United Kingdom. In the case of the London Gateway approximately 27 million m³ of soil was dredged during the project. The material that was
In 2014, Merford supplied a cabin to Boskalis for its Manu Pekka dredger. In 2015, a new backhoe dredger will be installed on the ship and Merford was asked to develop an operator cabin for this crane. This type of crane is normally used in the mining sector. Therefore, a standard cabin was not an [
In January, Port of Gdansk published a brief preliminary overview of the year 2014. The port’s outstanding throughput performance saw an over 70 percent rise over the last 6 years, and it was a year of exceptional investment projects launched over the past 12 months or commissioned in that period. A
PD Ports is streamlining the way it shares hydrographic data by using GIS software from Cadcorp, a British software development company focused on geographic information system (GIS) and web mapping software. “Teesport is a major deep-water complex and one of the largest container ports in the North
Wasa Dredging OY Ltd, a marine offshore and inland water construction company from Finland, will be the sponsor of the 2nd International Forum of Dredging Companies, which will be held on 19 February 2015, in Moscow. The event is organized by Media-Group PortNews with FSUE Rosmorport as a General Pa
DP World London Gateway has announced plans to move forward with a third berth at the UK’s new deep-sea hub port, located 25 miles from central London. The Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin MP, visited the state-of-the-art port with local MPs. He climbed one of the world’s tallest
