MOTAS dredging solutions recently delivered custom made Fall Pipe System for Rohde Nielsen’s DP2 fall pipe rock installation vessel ‘Grane R’. The company has designed, built, engineered, and installed the system in close cooperation with Rohde Nielsen. It will be used to accurately lay foundations
ROHR-IDRECO has received order confirmation for two major projects from cement manufacturing – sand and gravel mining companies. Commenting the latest news, Fulco Vrooland Löb, Group CEO, said: “Our orderbook is filling up nicely, even into 2023. With these two new orders for leading sand and gravel
Alewijnse has developed a unique, future-proof digital platform that can replace most of the computer equipment on the bridge, thus saving space and money. The company introduced this unique platform initially for use on trailing suction hopper dredgers. However, the solution can also be implemented
Van Oord’s VO:X Snellius, their second unmanned survey vessel, was officially launched in September. “This vessel will help us work more efficiently and sustainably,” said Van Oord. “Previous learning experiences have allowed us to further improve the design of VO:X Snellius.” The vessel is slightly
Jan De Nul Group has moved its entire fleet of 82 vessels and jack-up barges to Castor Marine’s global VSAT and Iridium connectivity network on a long-term contract to guarantee solid vessel connectivity. Since all vessels are operational around the globe, Castor Marine was challenged to migrate ves
German propulsion expert SCHOTTEL has just announced that the largest U.S.-flagged, self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Frederick Paup will be equipped with its rudder propellers type SRP 510 L FP. The dredger, currently under construction at the Keppel AmFELS Shipyard in Brownsvil
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vox Apolonia was launched at the Keppel Singmarine Shipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore earlier this week. Through this, Van Oord achieved another important milestone for the newbuild project team of the three LNG trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). The hull
Royal IHC has loaded the first truck at their shipyard in Kinderdijk and it is now on its way to their customer Lotos JSC. In total, 621.5 tons will be transported by road in the coming months, almost 150,000 km to drive. Shortly after arrival in Astrakhan, the installation and commissioning will st
Port of London Authority (PLA) has just announced the first Thames call for the marine aggregate dredger CEMEX Go Innovation. “The vessel called at CEMEX Northfleet and benefited from the £3.5 million new dry discharge system installed under our PLA Investment Plan to secure Thames river traffic and
Foyle and Marine Dredging has taken delivery of a Hitachi ZX890 that will join the company’s fleet of large Hitachi excavators. The ZX890 will join the EX1200-6 Grizzly 2.0 and the ZX490-6 ME in Castletownbere, to support Sorensen Civil Engineering Ltd, as they redevelop the Fishery Harbour at Dinis
MOTAS Dredging Solutions has supplied the concept, detailed design services and hardware of the dredging installation for the conversion of the M/V Capt John A. Graham to a side cast dredge. Brice Civil Constructors is the operator of the dredge, which is currently in operation and doing extensive a
Marine Accident Investigation Branch has just released an investigation report into the immobilisation of the dredger Shearwater, after its propeller shafts were fouled by its own towline while towing the barge Agem One on 9 April 2020. The Shearwater was damaged and holed, resulting in flooding, af
Alia Instruments, a producer of process control equipment for various markets, continues to build big non-nuclear density meters for dredging application. The company recently completed production of three Alia Density Meters, the biggest so far, with capacities to match 650 to 750 mm diameter slurr
The dredging vessels Ecodelta and Charlock recently visited the Royal Niestern Sander yard for their regular maintenance works. Both vessels can be considered as regular guests, Niestern said. Royal Niestern Sander serves the dredging and marine contracting market for many years. “With our roots in
