Jan De Nul has just released this amazing video named ‘Working principles of a Water Injection Dredger’. Water Injection Dredgers (WIDs) are smaller than traditional dredgers, which makes them very manoeuvrable. With their limited draught, they are ideal for executing maintenance dredging works in s
Jan De Nul has released a beautiful video named ‘Working principles of a Backhoe Dredger’. A backhoe dredger is a pontoon which is equipped with a hydraulic excavator that excavates the soil and discharges it into a split hopper barge. This crane pontoon is equipped with a hydraulic excavator. Three
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger’. A trailing suction hopper dredger dredges loose material and soft soils such as sand, gravel, sludge or clay. One or two suction pipes are lowered on the seabed and the drag head is trai
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Cutter Suction Dredger’. A cutter suction dredger cuts hard soil into fragments with a rotating cutter head. The material is sucked up by dredge pumps and discharged to a deposit area through pipelines across sea and lan
Two Liebherr crawler excavators were used recently to remove around 80,000 tonnes of gravel from the Danube River. The deployment of the machines was necessary to ensure the “flow” of the Danube along this section, thus contributing to flood prevention in the nearby city center of Ulm. The Liebherr
The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of Dredging Today and organizer of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC). More than 400 exhibitors and co-exhibitors booked their spots at OEEC 2024 Businesses and organizations from across the offshore energy sector and
A recent study conducted into agitation dredging noise in harbors, confirmed that Haven Dredging’s innovative Tiamat Hydrodynamic dredger is safe for marine mammals and fish. Tiamat, launched last year by Haven Dredging, is an innovative hydrodynamic dredging solution to create a more adaptable and
Dragflow – global manufacturer of high quality dredges and dredging pumps – recently presented a new video about the company’s powerful Amphibious Dredge. This massive machine is capable of dredging in water and move on land, making it a versatile and efficient solution for a variety of projects. Fr
Royal IHC has successfully delivered two innovative and all new submersible pump units for Debmarine Namibia, to fit in their marine diamond crawler. The pump units consist of an IHC QuaZar pump with Curve® technology. These pumps are fitted with the latest technology and have 50% more power and opt
Damen has just released a photo of a Damen Multi Cat (MuC) 1205 and a Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 500 setting out on the first leg of their journey to the new owner G E M H Y SERVICES based in Dubai. The company is acquiring the above mentioned Damen equipment for their project in […]
Hitachi Product Manager, Akarsh Shetty recently shared some of the highlights on the company’s Zaxis-7 SLF excavator. Hitachi offers a wide selection of super long front (SLF) excavators, which vary from 9 to 49 tonnes and range from 10.5 to 22 meters. Designed using more than 20 years of engineerin
Positek – specialized in high performance sensors for dredging and subsea applications – has published a blog post on the optimization of position control in shallow water dredging operations. In marine and freshwater environments, shallow water dredging is a process used to remove sediment, debris,
Jan De Nul Group is using the Volvo JEC230 Electric excavator at its soil and sediment valorisation center in Hulsdonk (Belgium). It is the first time that an all-electric vehicle of this type is used on Belgian construction sites. This marks another step in the electrification of the company’s acti
During the IADC Annual General Meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, IADC President Frank Verhoeven revealed the winners of the Safety Award 2024. This year, IADC granted the Safety Award for dredging contractors to Jan De Nul for its innovative Cutter Head Staircase. Jan De Nul’s new Cutter Head St
