The water injection dredger (WID) UKD Seadragon arrived into her new home in Cardiff yesterday. “This advanced vessel will allow us to offer our clients a new and complementary dredging service, enhancing the comprehensive solutions we provide to the market,” said Mark Pearson, General Manager UK Dr
The O&O-fonds Waterbouw is taking a major step in the modernization of maritime education by investing in five advanced dredging simulators. This innovative technology, developed by Dutch Dredging Simulators (DDS), offers students the opportunity to gain essential practical experience in a realistic
Bell Dredging said that they have successfully concluded the testing of a new Bell Cutter Dredger 300 – nicknamed Apollo. “With a total installed power of 734 kW and a cutting depth of 15 meter, this dredger is capable of pumping 2000 cubic meter slurry per hour. A state of the art control cabin ens
Dragflow is getting ready to test another dredger from their portfolio, the DRH Cable Dredger. The cable dredgers of the DRH series are powerful, effective, and versatile machines, available in different versions and compatible with different types of Dragflow hydraulic pumps. These are small-sized
The vessel Pieter Coecke is active in the river Scheldt and the Port of Antwerp, sweep dredging and clearing debris and oil. It does so on behalf of the Department of Mobility and Public Works of the Flemish government. Thanks to its new engines, equipped with ULEv technology, emissions are now redu
Kerry County Council has released a plan to undertake dredging operations in Fenit Harbor commencing on March 31, 2025. This relates to the disposal of 125,000m³ of material which has accumulated at the commercial berth, navigational channel and its associated turning area and the area adjacent to t
Van Oord and joint venture partner Boskalis recently wrapped up work on a capital dredging project in Walvis Bay, Namibia. By using trailing suction hopper dredgers, Van Oord and Boskalis deepened the 10-kilometre-long access channel to the port of Walvis Bay from -14.4 to -16.8 meters and widened i
A maintenance dredging campaign is currently underway at the Port of Taganrog, Rosmorport said. Rosmorport’s own multi-bucket dredger and a hopper barge have been deployed for the project. By the end of the month, another dredger and two hopper barges will arrive at the port to assist, the Russian p
Waterking, a Dutch manufacturer of dredging equipment, has presented the world’s first electric amphibious dredging set. In collaboration with Staad Groep, Waterking assembled a 35-tonne electric amphibious excavator – the WK 350 NG-E, while Damen provided the E-DOP 150 to complete the emission free
The Dutra Group is expanding its fleet with a new 10,464 cubic yard Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge, named “Adele”. The “Adele” will be constructed at Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton and Port St. Joe Florida facilities. The newbuild will join Dutra’s 9,870 cubic yard Trailing Suction Hopper Dre
Van Oord’s water injection dredger (WID) Maas visited the Shipyard Gebr. Kooiman BV in Zwijndrecht recently. During the intervention, the Maas was equipped with two new electric motors with liquid instead of air cooling. According to Kooiman, liquid cooling prevents overheating and improves the perf
Deep C has just announced its collaboration with AF Offshore Decom AS on a significant subsea intervention project. According to their latest release, this project involves dredging of several thousand cubic meters of rock dump, equivalent to hundreds of truckloads, marking one of the largest operat
Over a decade ago, Jan De Nul was the first dredging company to equip all its new vessels with advanced filter technology that reduces their emissions by up to 98%. The company calls them Ultra-Low Emission vessels (ULEv). In recent years, JDN’s Ultra-Low Emission vessels have been participating in
A £14 million project to restore the Montgomery Canal has been granted an 11-month extension by the UK Government, Powys County Council said. It was due to be finished by the end of March this year, but the Council and Glandŵr Cymru (the Canal and River Trust in Wales), who are delivering the scheme
