Van Oord, together with its subsidiary Wicks, has won a contract from GRAHAM Group for the development of a new deep-water berth at Belfast Harbour. According to Van Oord, the project entails a new multipurpose deepwater quay which will be able to accommodate vessels up to 350 metres in length. This
Gebroeders Van der Lee’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Teunis Huibertus is on its way to Aarhus to start work on their first project in Denmark. In Aarhus, approximately 430 meters of new quay will be built to further expand the Port capacity. For this project, the TSHD Teunis Huibertus wil
Weir – ESCO Division – has successfully completed and delivered two GeoVor 9G cutterheads. Two of the largest and strongest ESCO GeoVor cutterheads were successfully handed over to one of the company’s European key customers. These cutters, designed to dredge the toughest materials, will be deployed
Exciting news coming out of Lima, Peru, where IADC Director Arnold de Bruijn is speaking at the OAS-CIP Conference on Sustainable Port Development. As well as discussing the role of the dredging industry in ensuring the sustainability of ports, Arnold is launching a new online resource: Responsible
The King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth has announced the start of the next phase of maintenance dredging works in the port area. Starting this week, Boskalis Westminster Ltd will be conducting bathymetric survey and maintenance dredging works within Portsmouth Harbour and the main approach channel. Ac
Canal & River Trust is starting an eight-week program of dredging at Gloucester’s historic docks, which will improve conditions for navigation and benefit boaters, local businesses and tourism. The dredging will remove silt that has entered the docks from the River Severn this summer as water was pu
Van Oord recently won the IADC Safety Award 2025 during the Annual General Meeting of the International Association of Dredging Companies in Stockholm, Sweden. The award recognizes Van Oord’s commitment to safety and innovation in the dredging industry, specifically for its newly designed gasket tha
Today, a new batch of Royal IHC Beaver Dredgers is ready to set out into the world. Alexander van den Berg, Managing Director at IHC Dredging, said: “These robust workhorses are more than just machines. They are enablers of trade, connectors of communities, and catalysts for development.” “From remo
Brisvegas Machinery, QLD, Australia, recently delivered a highly specialized Kobelco SK200-10 excavator, fitted with a Remu E22 amphibious track set, to long-standing partner Ezyquip Hire. Manufactured in Finland, the Remu E22 undercarriage transforms the Kobelco SK200-10 into a purpose-built, versa
A hard rocky seabed is always a challenge when it comes to dredging, even for Boskalis’ specialist equipment. That is why the crews from Boskalis Westminster are deploying different types of vessels to deepen the port of Lerwick on the Scottish Shetland Islands, so it can accommodate larger passenge
Starting this month, Van Oord will be performing coastal maintenance works at Banjaard Beach (Noord-Beveland). An LNG-powered trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) will deposit 1 million cubic meters of sand on and just in front of the beach. For the first time in the Netherlands, this replenishmen
Maritime education programs in the Netherlands have taken a significant step in modernizing hydraulic engineering education. Last week, September 4, five advanced dredging simulators were officially inaugurated at the Shipping and Transport College (STC) in Rotterdam. Thanks to an investment from th
Van Oord has completed its work on the Fish Migration River at the Afsluitdijk. This marks an important milestone in the development of this innovative nature restoration project, which contributes to fish migration between the Wadden Sea and Lake IJsselmeer. The final part of Van Oord’s contributio
Boskalis hopper dredgers Causeway and Freeway have been working hard for several months on beach and foreshore replenishment of Ameland, The Netherlands. On the western side of this Wadden island, the beach has been reinforced with approximately 2.5 million cubic meters of sand, while on the eastern
