Jan De Nul and the Georgian government have signed an agreement for the construction of marine infrastructure within the framework of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project. The signing ceremony was held at the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development two days ago. Zurab Sichinava, Direct
Royal IHC last Friday celebrated an important milestone, the keel laying ceremony for Kenmare Resources’ electric mining dredger. The Director of IHC Mining, Hans Greve explained more on the two custom vessels, concurrently built at the company’s yard in Kinderdijk. “Boasting 6,800 kVA of total powe
DEME said that they delivered a strong performance for the first half of 2024, adding that their Dredging & Infra segment reported a turnover of almost one billion euro, 39% higher than a year ago. In Europe, Dredging & Infra continued working on maintenance contracts in Belgium and Germany, securin
Boskalis has just released this amazing photo from their recent dredging project in Antwerp. “As dredging professionals, we protect coastal areas, construct ports and waterways and reclaim land using our specialized vessels. To this end, we often dredge large volumes of sand, clay and silt and in mo
DEME said today that they delivered a strong performance for the first half of 2024. “Turnover grew 30% to more than 1.9 billion euro and profitability grew compared to the first half of last year, reflecting continued effective project execution across all contracting segments,” the company said. “
Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands is preparing the next shipment for delivery, a cutter suction dredger CSD500. The powerful CSD500 has been designed for dredging compacted soils. Its powerful cutter unit and dredge pump ensure a continuously high dredged mixture production. The robustly constr
The £23 million dredger Emerald Duchess, a major investment by PD Ports into the economic and environmental sustainability of the river, made its way on to the Tees early this morning, fresh from successful sea trials in the Netherlands. At 71m long and with its standout green livery, the Emerald Du
Dutch shipbuilder DE Klop has announced the start of production of the Cygnus, a revolutionary fully electric cutter suction dredger. This innovative dredger, with a discharge diameter of 500 mm, marks another step towards sustainable and environmentally friendly dredging solutions. The Cygnus is be
The Mexican foreign trade authorities conducted a search on the Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) Zheng He and seized it in November 2023. According to these authorities, the vessel must be classified as foreign ’merchandise‘ and following such classification, she should have been imported i
Royal IHC recently presented a compact modular dredger that is easy to maintain and deploy, utilising IHC’s submersible OTTer-Pump range. The OTTer is a range of compact dredgers as platform for deploying the OTTer-Pump. This provides customers with a modular, compact and cost-effective solution to
Royal Van der Leun has entered in a collaboration agreement with Royal IHC to build a diesel-electric hopper dredger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Under the contract, Royal Van der Leun will deliver the machinery, nautical systems, switchboards, cabling and complete system integratio
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ursa, built by the Finnish shipyard Tyovene Oy, was christened on Friday, August 9th. After successful sea-trails in Poland, the dredger was handed over to the Maritime Office in Gdynia. The TSHD’s primary task will be to service the new, over 20 km waterwa
Rechvodput, Russia’s inland waterway transport authority, took delivery of a new non-self-propelled dredger Tobol recently. The dredger, built by local company Ship Repair and Shipbuilding Corporation, is the fifth vessel under the Project 4395 series of dredgers that were designed by naval architec
Wasa Dredging, on behalf of Kystverket, has commenced a dredging project in Florø, Norway. Two of the company’s combined dredging/drilling units “Hector” and “Boulder” as well as the EX1200 long-reach land machine are currently working on the project in Florø. The project consists of deepening and w
