Damen crews are currently preparing a new cutter suction dredger ?????? for transport. At the moment, disassembly (process of separating a machine or structure into its different parts) of the new dredger is underway at the ????? ???????? yard. According to the Dutch shipbuilder, the CSD650 is almos
Group De Cloedt said that the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Ostend is currently at Szczecińska Stocznia Remontowa ‘Gryfia’ shipyard in Poland. Group De Cloedt owns six sea-going trailing suction hopper dredgers and two river-going suction hopper dredgers. Vessel specifications: Type: Tra
Dragflow srl, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty submersible pumps with agitators and complete systems for dredging, recently delivered a remote-controlled dredger to a customer in Guatemala. The dredger – designed for dredging in particularly complex and hard-to-reach environmen
Royal IHC today released this amazing video of trailing suction hopper dredger TEUNIS HUIBERTUS on its sea trails in January 2023. This Beagle® 4 is a TSHD from the series of ‘standard’ medium-sized hoppers of IHC Dredging. During the sea trails, next to the ship performance and safety procedures, a
Kerry Co. Council is about to begin the dredging operations in Fenit Harbour in February 2023. This relates to the disposal of c. 60,000m3 of material which has accumulated within the marina and inner harbour. Dredging is for the purposes of maintenance of the design and operational depths within th
Due to coastal erosion, the beaches at the popular seaside resort in the South-Eastern part of Romania, Eforie, are in drastic decline. Van Oord is now reinforcing approximately 6 kilometres of coastline, using the best and most sustainable solutions. Van Oord is responsible for both project design
Due to the ongoing sea level rise, the coastline of Togo and Benin in West Africa is eroding by more than two meters every year. The result: houses literally end up in the ocean and the local population – which lives largely from fishing and arable farming – is struggling to make a living. To [&hell
The Oosterweel infrastructure project is entering the next phase, DEME Group announced today. The official starting signal was given yesterday for the construction of the eight tunnel elements for the Scheldt Tunnel, which will be built in a dedicated drydock in Zeebrugge. Once the tunnel elements a
Jan De Nul Group and Royal IHC have signed a contract for the upgrade of cutter suction dredger (CSD) J.F.J. De Nul. Built in 2013 by Royal IHC and with a total power of 27,240 kW installed, this CSD belongs to the top-end in the world cutter dredging fleet. The J.F.J. De Nul is the […]
Mavi Deniz, an Istanbul based company involved in oil spill response, weed and silt removal, dredging and ship building, has sign an agreement to build two Unmanned Remote Control Split Hopper Barges for Slovakia in order to support the Danube River dredging operations. In the Danube Basin, sediment
The sea trials of the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Teunis Huibertus are currently underway. IHC Dredging recently sold this Beagle® 4 with a hopper volume of 4,000 m3, to contractor Gebr. van der Lee. The Dutch family business was looking for a sustainable trailing suction hopper dredg
Land & Water Plant Hire has made the commitment, alongside the rest of the Land & Water Group, to become Carbon Net Zero by 2030. In order to do this, the firm is expanding its fleet to offer more specialist hybrid and fuel-efficient solutions that fulfil its client’s needs. The firm has recently ta
Finding the balance between protecting coastline structures and conserving the environment is an important task. Nowadays, extreme climate events such as coastal erosion, droughts and flooding are occurring at an increasingly alarming rate worldwide. Also, sediments and floating debris collect on st
Jenkins Marine Ltd. recently completed an extensive upgrade of the 26m long self-propelled hopper ‘CH Horn’ which was formerly equipped with a fixed grab crane. The fixed crane has now been removed to allow room on its deck for a specially modified tracked Hyundai Excavator. According to Jenkins Mar
