The classroom is ready for the Royal IHC Pumps and Slurry Transportation course, taking place April 22-25, 2024 at the IHC shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Next week, IHC will welcome 14 participants representing 5 companies located in 4 countries: United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Australia
A joint venture between Boskalis and Van Oord – Fehmarn Belt Contractors (FBC) – has completed the dredging work for the tunnel trench of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Denmark and Germany. Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredgers Crestway and Shoalway together with Van Oord’s trailing suction hop
Cemex Marine recently conducted an essential maintenance dredging campaign at the Port of Tilbury, keeping the berths deep enough to accommodate vessels of up to 100,000 tonnes. The Port of Tilbury is one of the UK’s largest ports and is located on the River Thames just 22 nautical miles east of cen
Four units of Italdraghe dredging heads model BD2 docked at the Port of Manila, the Philippines, yesterday. Each dredging head comes equipped with custom-made couplings personally designed by Italdraghe’s Technical Department to simplify installation. According to Italdraghe, these dredging heads ar
Hall Contracting has just introduced the latest addition to its dredging fleet – the Kirra. The main hull was loaded for transport to the Hunter Valley, for Kirra’s first task of cleaning a coal tailings pit, with the cutter ladder and side pontoons to be fitted once she arrives. The cutter suction
An oil spill at the Gregorio D. Perez Marina in Hagåtña occurred during the dredging operations at Guam Fishermen’s Co-op property yesterday, the Port Authority of Guam said in a press release. According to the Port Authority, the incident occurred at 10:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, when contractors wo
Maintenance dredging of Fremantle’s Inner Harbor is now underway, according to the Fremantle Ports, Western Australia. The maintenance dredging, developed and planned over the last two years, will remove sediments that have accumulated in the Inner Harbor from the Swan River estuary since capital dr
St. Johns County (FL) has officially marked the start of the $38.6 million Ponte Vedra Beach Restoration Project with a sandbreaking ceremony at Mickler’s Landing Beachfront Park. Attending the ceremony were Florida Sen. Travis Hutson, Florida House Rep. Cyndi Stevenson, St. Johns County District 4
Over the next several weeks, the City of Evanston, Illinois, will be contracting dredging services of the Church Street Boat Launch at 1647 Sheridan Rd. Work is anticipated to begin on Monday, April 22, and be completed by Tuesday, May 7, weather permitting, said the City. A contractor is hired each
Cunningham Civil & Marine (CCM) has successfully completed a dump at sea dredge to -10m CD at Dublin Port. The area to be dredged during this dredging campaign was entirely within the Loading Area required for the creation of two new riverside berths, Berth 52 and Berth 53 in Dublin Harbour. Around
TasPorts said that the work on seabed levelling in the Port of Burnie is underway. According to their official statement, these works are part of TasPorts’ short-term dredge management approach for the Port of Burnie to maintain the port’s declared depths. The program, which started yesterday, is be
Van Oord has completed the largest beach restoration in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of Van Oord subsidiary Dravo S.A. and Rover Mariti
California Congressman Salud Carbajal met with officials with the Ventura Port District last week to survey the annual dredging underway at the harbor and discuss how $8,471,000 he secured in the 2024 federal funding deal will help ensure safe navigation for Ventura Harbor’s maritime industry and re
The official launching ceremony of the Muddy Water Dredge “Vaneta Marie” is scheduled to take place this week at DSC Dredge building site in New Orleans. This custom-built Marlin Class dredge has an overall length of 371 feet making it one of, if not the longest 24” dredge in the United States with
