Damen Services has opened its twelfth service hub, located in South-East Asia at Damen Song Cam shipyard in Haiphong, Vietnam. This latest addition to its Service Hub network will enable Damen to provide a dedicated resource from which it can deliver faster and more comprehensive maintenance and oth
Van Oord’s new water injection dredger Rhône was recently launched at VAHALI Shipyards in Serbia. By now Rhône has taken her first dive into the water and is on her way to the Kooiman Marine Group in Zwijndrecht, where the vessel will meet its sister vessel WID Rijn for outfitting. Both newbuilds wi
New electric suction dredger Henk Piet was christened yesterday, Koninklijke Oosterhof Holman said. The new dredger is 22m long with maximum dredging depth of 37 meters. The dredger has two electric pumps of 600 kWh each. The use of electric dredges is part of Koninklijke Oosterhof Holman and Nautil
Keppel Shipyard has completed the lengthening of Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Oranje from 156 to 201 metres. The length extension project follows the similar extension of Boskalis‘ hopper dredging vessel Prins der Nederlanden, which was conducted in the first half of 2022. The co
Hagler Systems of Augusta, GA, has commissioned the company’s latest Kraken Series ‘McClelland Dredge’. According to the company, this new vessel was launched yesterday at a customer’s mine site in Alberta, Canada. The Dredge is 175 feet long x 57 feet wide, weighing in at 1.7 million pounds, and sh
Van Oord, Caterpillar and Pon are joining forces to explore the development of zero exhaust-emission heavy duty equipment. Electrification of heavy-duty earthmoving equipment brings challenges, the companies said. Facing these challenges calls for front running companies to work together. To gather
Rohde Nielsen has completed the Port Beach sand renourishment project in Australia – awarded by the Port of Fremantle and the City of Fremantle. The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Modi R has been in seasonal operation since July 2022 and has dredged 150.000 m3 of sand from the Fremantle Port
The capsized dredger MV Hong Hai 189 has sunk in waters off Mariveles, Bataan, spilling oil and other mixed substances in the water, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. The MV Hong Hai, a Sierra Leone-registered dredging vessel, sank 400 yards away from Sisiman Lighthouse in Mariveles at around 5
Mud Cat has just shipped another Mud Cat MC 100E dredge to a contractor in Texas. The MC 100E hull is constructed of heavy-duty gauge steel, never poly plastic floats, and will not crack when exposed to variable pH environments combined with heavy UV exposure. According to Mud Cat, the 100E is the m
Last week, Royal IHC started the dredging simulator training on site for its client Richards Bay Minerals (RBM). “In the coming five weeks, we will train their operators, shift supervisors and dredge masters at the RBM operation in South Africa,” said IHC. The training is specifically tailored to th
EZ Connect Floats – a global manufacturer of float products – recently launched the advanced line of patented, flexible, superior float solutions designed for various industries. The company offers three main types of float products: hose floats, pipe floats, and cable floats, all made from polyethy
Hawk Excavator has recently launched its flagship product lines. These include long-reach arms (long stick excavators or long boom excavators), amphibious undercarriages /amphibious excavator tracks, and RTK/GPS. This equipment tracks and monitor underwater projects remotely. “Also, the company offe
O’Malley Marine Plant Ltd has just announced the arrival of their new tug Taktow. The Damen built multi purpose vessel has international Bureau Veritas Class which allows her to take on projects anywhere in the world, said the company. She has been issued with an Irish Loadline and Irish P5 passenge
A Swartz Creek company is moving west to expand and begin building the world’s first autonomous dredging machines. LJ Inc. has outgrown its current space at 6359 Miller Road near the I-69 interchange in Swartz Creek, where it employs 115 people. The company continues to grow and is purchasing 50 acr
