BLRT Repair Yards said that the Pedro Álvares Cabral, a 14,000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger of the Jan De Nul Group, recently arrived at their Klaipeda yard for a special survey. Over the past weeks, she has undergone a full spectrum of work. Both tailshafts were withdrawn and carefully servic
Nauplius Workboats has started the production of a DMC1450 for its strategic partner Royal IHC. According to Nauplius, Royal IHC has sold this multi-purpose, heavy-duty workboat, together with a Beaver dredger, to a client in the Middle East. “The DMC1450 with it’s length of 14.5 meter and a breadth
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered four advanced dredging component packages for Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHDs). These vessels, which are being constructed at different shipyards in Central America, where two of them have already successfully undergone various dredge trials and have been
DEME Group has reported a turnover of 3.09 billion euros for the first nine months of 2025, a 3% increase year-over-year. The group’s order book totals 7.5 billion euros, representing a 5% increase from 7.1 billion euros a year earlier, and remains stable compared with mid-year levels. Offshore Ener
Royal IHC is ready to deliver another hopper dredger of the standardized Easydredge 700S series. According to the company, the stock vessel is ready for immediate delivery, with final trials to be executed with the client. This Easydredge 700S is IHC’s smaller-sized hopper dredger with 500m3 hopper
Bridport Harbor – West Bay said that that they are currently conducting Water Injection Dredging (WID) trials with the dredging vessel Doonhamer. This innovative dredging technique uses low-pressure water jets to loosen and mobilize sediment, allowing natural currents to redistribute it. “WID is a m
Over the last couple of years, Boskalis’ hopper dredger Medway has been almost fully dedicated to maintaining the Weser River in northern Germany. Since 2020, TSHD Medway has dredged sand, silt and clay from the access channels to Bremerhaven and the Port of Brake, where large container vessels moor
DEME Group, together with its partners, recently took part in the widening and modernization of the Kiel Canal. First opened in 1895 and continuously modernized ever since, the Kiel Canal, the world’s busiest artificial waterway and the direct route between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, is now e
Jenkins Marine has been hard at work near Portsmouth working with a large international dredging contractor at the Southsea beach replenishment project. This is part of a large-scale coastal defence project which is adding approximately one million tonnes of new shingle to the beach between October
Waterking BV has just established a new production location in India for the Waterking amphibious excavators – Waterking Dredging Equipment India PVT. According to the Dutch company, this move will cover the African, Asian and South American markets. Also, their most popular model, the WK 220, will
Van Oord has reached an agreement with BAM Infraconsult bv (BAM’s civil engineering consultancy in the Netherlands) on the intended acquisition of the Xbloc activities and associated assets. Xbloc activities include the design and construction of innovative concrete armor units for protecting shorel
Royal IHC, together with Vishwa Samudra Holdings and in the presence of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), recently held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the official start of construction of a new Beagle 8 trailing suction hopper dredger. The new dredger will have a hopper capacity of 8,000 m³
In recent months, Boskalis deployed the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Gateway and the backhoe dredger Manu-Pekka to the North Sea to make preparation work for the installation of the 22-kilometer-long offshore pipeline by Allseas. Boskalis said that they, in cooperation with its partner All
With the introduction of its new Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) range, Damen has developed a highly realistic dredge training simulator. The setup imitates the behavior of a real CSD in a true-to-life presentation. This includes a dredge control system that is completely identical to that of the CSD,
