Dragflow recently supplied a hydraulic pump HY85A and hydraulic power pack for the Marina di Militello harbor dredging project in Italy. According to the Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment, the client asked for a versatile solution to address the problem of sand sedimentation close to the pi
Jenkins Marine has been working for Weymouth Harbor commissioners and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to undertake maintenance dredging within Weymouth harbor, the company said in their latest announcement. Dredging has been requested for various areas including under the all-weather
September and October – under the New IJmuiden Sea Lock project – will be dominated by the sinking operation of the lock gate chamber of the outer head and by the construction of the walls of the flood defense, reports the Port of Amsterdam. The port also added that the OpenIJ concrete mixing plant
Torcross sea defense repair is one of 10 projects worldwide nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers People’s Choice Award 2018. The Environment Agency team based in Devon worked with contractors Bam Nuttall Mott Macdonald Joint Venture (BMM JV) to complete the £2.4m project within 14 months
Royal HaskoningDHV has been selected, together with its partners, to explore and develop innovative ideas into bankable projects on how Khulna, Bangladesh, can become a water inclusive city as part of the Water as Leverage call for action. Khulna, the third largest city in Bangladesh, is part of the
Waterking, a Dutch manufacturer of amphibious equipment, has sold a WK 300 NG-5 to a customer in Germany. This machine will be used for maintenance dredging in the area of Leipzig/Berlin. The excavated soil will be transported to a dump site with barges and or split barges, said the company. The exc
Wasa Dredging, a Finnish marine offshore and inland water construction company, has purchased a new backhoe to join their fleet as the fourth of Wasa Dredging backhoe dredgers. The new backhoe, named ‘Harald’, is equipped with an 250 ton EX2500 excavator from Hitachi, the company said in their lates
A DOP250 has been delivered for a hydropower dam maintenance project in Malawi, Damen – the Dutch defense, shipbuilding and engineering conglomerate – said in their latest announcement. The DOP submersible dredge pump, fitted out with a cutter unit, is set to work at approximately -4m dredging depth
The new dredger Vladimir Panchenko, built under the federal program “Development of Russia’s Transport System in 2010-2020” for the Administration of Lena Basin, has been put into operation in Yakutia, reports press center of Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot). The dredger of
Work will soon begin to repair the sea wall at Clarence Beach in Southsea, which has been exposed to many years of strong currents, shingle abrasion and storm damage, the Portsmouth City Council said in its latest announcement. The work is expected to start on September 24th and take three weeks, an
The International Association of Dredging Companies, the global umbrella organisation for contractors in the private dredging industry, officially released its Annual Report 2017 today. Prepared on behalf of the Board, the report gives an overview of IADC’s state of affairs and diverse activities wh
A key stretch of the River Parrett in Somerset will not be dredged this year, it has been confirmed. The Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA), created in 2015 to coordinate flood prevention efforts following the disastrous flooding of 2012 and 2013/2014, had intended to carry out dredging on the river be
An official ceremony dedicated to launching of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port marine construction works took place on September 16, the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia said in their latest release. In June 2018, Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC) awarded the dredging and recl
Jan De Nul’s new 3,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Tristão da Cunha was launched yesterday at the Keppel Nantong shipyard in China, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine. This green vessel is equipped with an exhaust gas treatment system filtering out and virtually eliminating many p
