With an internal commitment to becoming carbon net zero by 2030, Land & Water has become the first company in the UK to invest in brand new Kobelco SK210 Hybrid 15m Long Reach Tracked Excavators. This specialist plant will add to the firms existing sustainable fleet which aims to reduce the carbon f
Koninklijke Smals NV, Royal Smals has just released a photo update from an important dredging assignment in Portugal. The rehandling and pumping of a volume of at least 30,000m3 sand from along the existing breakwater in front of the main boulevard. Despite the strongly varying tidal conditions, th
Rohde Nielsen has completed a small port development project in the Port of Mukran in Rügen, Germany, for the client Deutsch Dänische Wasserbau Gmbh. The reclamation work comprised dredging 25.789 m3 of fine and compacted sand in the turning circle in the harbor, where the sand afterward was transp
Waterking BV will be presenting the ES-TRIN certified Waterking amphibious excavator WK55 and the Deltaworker at the Bauma. ES-TRIN certified means that the machine complies with the specified stability and safety standard. All floating equipment on inland waterways are required to comply with this
Dredging operations are about to kick off at the Port of Waterford with a maintenance dredging campaign to be carried out by a Dutch company. According to the Port, Baggerbedrijf De Boer’s trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone will be in the area, ready to conduct activities in the vicinity of Bel
After intensive preparations and close coordination with the relevant Danish and German authorities, an unexploded depth charge on the Danish side of the Fehmarnbelt was defused yesterday. A so-called bubble curtain was used during the controlled explosion to keep underwater noise to a minimum. Ping
Boskalis has just released these amazing photos named “Dredging under the glow of the Northern Lights.” Boskalis crew on board the backhoe dredger Magnor – and the other equipment used on the dredging project in the Finnish Kemi Channel – know all about it. This week they got to work under a natural
A new multi-purpose type workboat will ease the work of a French mining company in Senegal, operating in an artificial inland lake close to this African nation’s coast, ECT Marine reports. The customized WorkBoat 94 – successfully delivered by ECT Marine recently – is set to offer operational suppor
Royal IHC announced yesterday that the first of a series of four electrically powered dredgers for Vale has been commissioned. The dredgers will be operating in the Projeto Gelado where they are reprocessing iron ore tailings. Given the conditions in Brazil, and those of the Gelado dam, the CSD’s ar
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sayonara has completed its sea trials, Concordia Damen Shipbuilding said. During the sea trials, all systems are properly tested and the TSHD performed perfectly. ????? ???????? ????????? has delivered all dredging gear, including the D500 mm trailing pipe,
The wet civil engineering firm Land & Water has reached the milestone of 100,000m3 being dredged from Queen Pool at Blenheim Palace in Oxford. Queen Pool, which was created in 1715, had become heavily silted putting its extensive eco-system at risk. Land & Water started works earlier this year, maki
Mavi Deniz, an Istanbul based company involved in oil spill response, weed and silt removal, dredging and ship building, has delivered an Amphibex amphibious machine to Bulgaria – with support of European Union Funding. The machine has excavator arms with different tools for harvesting aquatic weeds
The Port of Bari is one of the main economic focal points of Southern Italy. To make the region ready to receive both more and larger vessels, Jan De Nul helped construct an extension to the port. According to JDN, 586,000 m3 of limestone – an extremely massive soil layer- had to be removed, to [&he
Straatman BV has successfully completed the engineering and production of four pinch ball joints, all executed at their factory in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands. The units – having an inner diameter of ø762 mm, a 20 degree tilting angle and a maximum working pressure of 31 bar – are custom designed f
