The Georgian government has announced a call for expressions of interest in the construction, design and operation of a deep-sea port in Anaklia. Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia, together with other government members attended the Anaklia Sea Port project presentation. “I do believe t
Five experts from the ‘Dutch Risk Reduction Team’, which includes Deltares, are visiting the Philippines right now. They are looking at what is needed to make the country more resilient so it can cope with the forces of nature in the future. The island country is working hard on reconstruction work
In July 2014 Matecs B.V. from Roosendaal successfully delivered over 20 heavy duty shore valves (40 bars water pressure) to some global dredging companies. The HD valves Ø 1000 mm were engineered in-house, at the Roosendaal premises (by Matecs’ sister company Wear & Tear Solutions) and were fully co
James Fisher, the UK’s leading marine services provider, announced the formation of a new venture with Aberdeen based company KDM Marine, named James Fisher Mass Flow Excavation Ltd, to jointly offer their market-leading subsea excavation capability and resources to the offshore industry in a single
North Lincolnshire Council has been working closely with The Friends of the Beck to regenerate the Bottesford Beck area and with the help of a new ‘amphibious’ machine the area will be improved even more. The TRUXOR machine has been brought in by Ebsford Environmental, the contractor that is carryin
KAMPS, a Belgium-based company specialised in water treatment projects, has introduced the Drag’oon, an efficient solution for the dredging projects. The system’s two flow pumps (upside/downside), mounted on a very maneuverable barge, provide good dredging power. The Drag’oon is completely remote co
The new Tier 4 Final/Stage IV-compliant EC250E and EC300E crawler excavators from Volvo Construction Equipment are powerful and efficient machines, designed to reduce fuel consumption and increase productivity. New Volvo EC250E and EC300E crawler excavators deliver a 5 percent improvement in fuel ef
Liverpool2, Peel Ports Group’s flagship £300m deepwater container terminal, took an important step closer to realisation this month when the Dutch marine engineering specialists Van Oord commenced their dredging of the River Mersey estuary. The family-owned Dutch firm was awarded the dredging contra
The Administration of the Yuzhny Port (Odessa region) increased the port dues that are levied on capesize vessels with drafts of more than 14.5 meters at its berths No. 5 and No. 6 on July 1. This became possible after the port acquired the ability to handle vessels with drafts of up to 18.5 meters
Foreshore Technology have released Dredge Master Pile, a monitoring and guidance system specifically designed to improve operators efficiency on piling projects. Dredge master pile is based on Foreshore’s ground breaking Dredge Master platform and provides the operators with an intuitive system to h
Facts About is a series of concise, easy-to-read leaflets which give an effective overview of essential facts about specific dredging and maritime construction subjects. This leaflets aims to provide basic understanding of how Cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) work. Although systems for describing dred
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Newport is to invest £2.5m refurbishing its Atlantic Shed warehouse to provide additional covered space for its growing steel and bulks business. The project takes the total for new investment by ABP in the docks at Newport to more than £10m in the past 18 mon
The concept of a test facility for innovative temporary flood defence barriers has proven so successful that within its first year the location of Flood Proof Holland in Delft, the Netherlands had to be expanded. The test facility was officially reopened on 3 July and now accommodates six stand-alon
Borets, a global leader in the engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, has added several sales and marketing professionals to its Texas and Oklahoma offices. Cheri Vetter has been named business development manager in Houston; Stan Herl, U.S. sales m
