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
A naming ceremony for the new hybrid dredger Chicago – with full electric capability – took place earlier this week in the Port of Hamburg (HPA). This noise free vessel – extremely environmentally friendly – is very powerful. Also, the new dredger will play an important role in keeping the waterways
Rohde Nielsen’s TSHDs Brage R and Thor R, assisted by Rimfaxe R, have recently finished this year’s work at Aveiro Port in Portugal, successfully removing 450.000 m3. RN has been managing the maintenance of Aveiro Port on many different occasions and has now been awarded a new three-year maintenance
Electrical systems integrator Alewijnse has made a breakthrough in the US market with the delivery of the newest dredge control solutions on board TSHD Liberty Island from the fleet of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. The company, with more than 130 years of experience in electrical engineering and aut
FSUE Rosmorport is seeking a contractor for repairing the non-self-propelled dredger Peotr Sablin, owned by Rosmorport’s Astrakhan Branch. According to the official portal for public procurement, initial (maximum) price of the contract is RUB 14,963,253 ($256,549). According to Rosmorport, the biddi
In case you missed it, Dredging Today would like to remind you that we conducted an interesting interview with Jan Peters, Managing Director of Alia Instruments, earlier this year. Finding a sustainable solution has never been an easy task, especially in the dredging industry. Also, the environmenta
With vessels and carriers ever increasing in size deeper and wider access channels are needed. In Germany, Van Oord maintains the navigable depths on the River Elbe that provides access to the countries largest harbour in Hamburg. “Our diverse fleet of dredging equipment is capable to make waterways
DEME Group’s pioneering dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River has just completed its first five-year docking. “Thanks to this wonderful DEME docking and vessel team at the BLRT Repair Yard (BLRT Grupp) in Klaipeda, it is now in top form again, ready to tackle the next assign
