This spring, Jan De Nul’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing on 100% second-generation biofuel, successfully restored the beach of Knokke. In order to protect the Belgian coast, JDN raised the beach by pumping ashore a large quantity of sand. In this way, the compan
Damen Shipyards Group has successfully delivered another state-of-the-art dredge package, this time to a client in Egypt. According to Bastin Kubbe, Damen’s Regional Service Manager for Asia-Pacific, this fully electric zero emission dredger (E-CSD650) is now on its way to the inland Egyptian Black
The Dutch-based manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment ECTMarine has successfully completed another challenging project, the development of customized Gold Dredge. For this project, ECTMarine and Oiltech Dredging Equipment Holland worked together to design and deliver all dredge components
Steder Group, on behalf of Neptune Marine, has shipped a dipper pontoon from Rotterdam to the Caribbean. Besides the 350 MT pontoon, shipment included a complete CAT 390 excavator of 120 MT. “A flawless execution thanks to all parties involved, RHB as stevedores and SAL/Jumbo as carrier,” Steder sai
Remu, a Finnish manufacturer of Screening buckets, Combi screening plants and Big Float amphibious excavators, has just introduced the Big Float E35 – their largest amphibious excavator to date. Equipped with additional pontoons, anchoring legs, stern drive units, custom built counterweight with aux
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) held a ceremony yesterday to celebrate the arrival of the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy. The giant dredger came aboard the heavy load carrier Tai An Kou. The CSD, built by Royal IHC, is a 29,190kW heavy-duty rock dredger and will be used to maintain and
DEME has taken delivery of its giant new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus from Dutch shipyard Royal IHC. According to DEME, the Spartacus sets a new benchmark in the global dredging market – this is the world’s largest and most powerful self-propelled cutter suction dredger and the first able
Yaroslavsky Shipyard launched a non-self-propelled dredging vessel of Project RDB 66.42М yesterday. According to the press center of the Yaroslavl Region Government, this is the first vessels of this type built by Yaroslavsky Shipyard. “The shipyard has a great technological, logistic and labour pot
ROHR-IDRECO has announced an order for a large, fully electric driven cutter suction dredger (CSD), with maximum digging depth of 30 meters. The dredger, to be handed over to a European multinational company, will be built at the company’s Mannheim-Germany manufacturing facility – with delivery sche
DEME Group has just released this amazing photo of their mighty trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Uilenspiegel alongside the water injection dredger (WID) Dhamra. The Uilenspiegel has been working close to Hamburg, while the Dhamra was dredging high spots in the fairway of the River Elbe. Accor
Almost four months after it got stuck in the Suez Canal, the 20,000 TEU containership Ever Given has reached its planned destination in Rotterdam. The giant resumed its voyage to Rotterdam after receiving the official approval to depart the waterway from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). According to
The Middle East’s largest dredger – the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy – arrived in the Suez Canal yesterday. The giant dredger came aboard the heavy load carrier Tai An Kou, and is now waiting in the Bitter Lakes to be floated apart from the vessel. The CSD, built by Royal IHC, is a 2
The new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy is ready to hitch a lift to Egypt – to join Suez Canal Authority’s (SCA) fleet of dredgers, Royal IHC said. This cutter dredger is one of two vessels that Suez Canal Authority ordered from IHC. Her sister vessel, Mohab Mameesh, was delivered to SC
After extensive testing, the new cutter suction dredger CSD500 is ready to go, Damen said in their latest announcement. The dredger will be shipped fully disassembled; as a result the Damen team has started taking the dredger apart. Initially, it will sail from Antwerp to Montevideo, Uruguay, before
