After almost 40 days, Eleanor’s scheduled maintenance and repairs are almost done, and the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) will soon be dredging sand again. The vessel is expected back to North American Aggregates (NAA) for testing today. “While the vessel was drydocked at GMD Shipyard, the t
China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) is about to begin the dredging operations at Gwadar Port in Pakistan. The main goal of this $57 million project is to achieve 14.5 meters of natural and original operational depth of the port areas. Under the title of “The Maintenance Dredging of Navigati
The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water
A Damen ??? ??????????? dredge pump, type DOP200, has been used to empty a continuous carousel of barges. Contractor Michels Construction, Inc. successfully completed this very important job in Philadelphia recently. In total, some 26,000 cubic yards of dredge material have been removed. At the upla
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Central America, Christine Pirenne, yesterday toured the dredging vessel Elbe, owned by Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging. Built by Royal IHC, the tralling suction hopper dredger (TSHD) is currently is dredging Caldera Harbor in Costa Rica. The to
Jan De Nul has won a contract to conduct the dredging works for the Port Victoria expansion project in Seychelles. According to Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA), additional negotiations will be done for the costing and, if possible, reduce the scoping size. The port expansion and rehabilitation proj
Emergencies services and agencies in Norfolk have declared a major incident following the discovery of a suspected World War Two device in Great Yarmouth yeaterday. Norfolk Police said that the discovery in the River Yare was thought to be an ordnance device. It was found by a contractor working on
The Dredge Wheeler returned from steel and machinery repairs at shipyards in Charleston, SC, and Mobile, AL, last week. Later this month, the crew will conduct readiness exercises aboard the Wheeler on the Mississippi River. The Wheeler is the largest hopper dredge in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
A successful keel laying ceremony for the second of two water injection dredgers (WIJs) for the Kooiman Marine Group – on behalf of Van Oord – took place last week at Vahali Zasavica. In July 2022, Van Oord ordered the construction of two additional state-of-the-art water injection vessels from Kooi
Seventeen cannons and artifacts were loaded onto a flatbed semitruck Jan. 31, 2023, at the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineers Depot and transported to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M. The cannons and artifacts were discovered in the Savannah River during the
Jan De Nul’s giant trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Cristóbal Colón is almost ready to sail again. The vessel was docked out in January for maintenance works. The crew is currently completing repairs along the quay and preparing the vessel for departure later this month. The TSHD specification
The Davao del Norte Government has purchased a Watermaster – a mobile amphibious multipurpose dredger intended primarily for the Libuganon River in Tagum City. The province is under a state of calamity after the PHP50.3-million (around $1 million) damage in agriculture and infrastructure was recorde
Damen crews are currently preparing a new cutter suction dredger ?????? for transport. At the moment, disassembly (process of separating a machine or structure into its different parts) of the new dredger is underway at the ????? ???????? yard. According to the Dutch shipbuilder, the CSD650 is almos
Two Amphibex dredgers performed emergency response operations in Mexico recently. According to the company, on January 10th, two Amphibex models AE450 stopped their dredging work to help a burning vessel in the Port of Muelle. “We would like to congratulate the crews for their quick reaction,” AMPHI
