MDL Marinas today confirmed successful completion of a £2.2 million Ocean Village Marina development project. This significant investment in the Southampton marina has enabled the complete replacement of all pontoons along the south side of the marina, dredging works and the introduction of new smar
Kenmare Resources Plc has revealed the names of two new dredgers which are being built at Royal IHC’s yard in Kinderdijk (Netherlands). The company will name the newbuilds after female members of the management team. The first of the new dredges will be named Calen, after the eldest daughter of Higi
Another Royal IHC has Beaver 65 cutter suction dredger has been successfully lifted onto a transport vessel and is now ready to set sail for Indonesia. The Beaver 65 CSD, with its impressive 650 mm pipe diameter, is renowned for its reliability, fuel efficiency, and low maintenance costs. It’s the l
Read the latest issue of Terra et Aqua featuring articles covering dredging projects as well as the topics of safety, socio-economics, technical innovations and the environment. The summer issue includes articles on 2D effects on dune erosion at Maasvlakte 2, An efficient tool for environmental cont
Italdraghe has just introduced its new multifunctional Octopus dredgers. According to the Italian manufacturer of dredging and marine equipment, these machines are meticulously engineered to excel in a variety of dredging tasks:? Dredging? Cutting? Harvesting? Excavation At the moment, new dredgers
Moving large quantities of soil in mining operations can be done different ways. One way is the constant feed of haulage trucks by excavators. Transporting mined materials using trucks requires a carousel of trucks and their drivers, all contributing to road congestion, dust, noise and emissions. An
Last week, 25 participants from 12 different countries successfully completed the APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center seminar on Dredging Technologies. The high-level seminar on Dredging Technologies gave an overview of the latest applications, technology, equipment and environmental aspects
Rijkswaterstaat has successfully completed beach nourishment works at the south-west side of the Texel coastline. The Texel Southwest beach nourishment campaign took place from March to May 2024. This included dredging and pumping around 810,000m3 of sand onto the beach, between the beach posts 9 an
Jan De Nul Group and Goa Shipyard Limited have signed a contract for the construction of a next generation trailing suction hopper dredger. The new dredger is a plug-in hybrid specifically designed to operate in small harbors. With its 79 meters hull length and a hopper capacity of 2000 cubic meter,
Dredging team is returning to West Bay (UK) in June to complete the removal of excessive sediment remaining in the harbour after the earlier dredging work, the Dorset Council announced in the statement. To maintain the safe depths for the navigational channels and waterways, the Council carried out
The HID CSD 4016 dredger, equipped with a patented cutter head, anchoring rods and spud carriage, was delivered to Russia recently. According to HID, the dredger demonstrates high productivity at dredging depths of up to 13 meters and maintains a flow capacity of 2000m³/h with a discharge distance o
Damen Shipyards recently presented the first type of the next generation of Cutter Suction Dredgers – the CSD600. The new series builds on the success of the old, with significant lessons learned, and faces the future with improved safety, sustainability and efficiency. The CSD600 is capable of dred
Royal IHC has made another successful delivery of Cutter Suction Dredgers to a client in India. According to IHC, two of the Beaver 50 Cutter Suction Dredgers have just docked in India and are ready to push local port development. “These powerful machines are set to make waves as they tackle challen
Holland Shipyards Group has just shared an exciting announcement: the successful conversion of an inland vessel into a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger. The dredger, named ‘Taruma’ started her journey as a standard inland vessel. Holland Shipyards engineered and installed advanced dredging equipment,
