At the beginning of the month, together with Royal IHC’s partner Frontline Engineering, the Kinderdijk based supplier of maritime technology organised a dredging simulator training in Bangkok for the Royal Irrigation Department. The training focused on many of the basics of CSD dredging: start-up dr
Damen Shipyards and Van Stee Offshore have signed a contract for delivery of the first Multibuster 8020 – a new class of 80-metre, ultra-shallow draught, multi-purpose workboats. Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, and Arjan van Stee of Van Stee Offshore inked the deal during the Offsho
A successful keel laying ceremony for the first of two water injection dredgers (WIJs) for the Kooiman Marine Group 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 Kooiman Marine Group after the
X-Machines has just released this very interested video named ‘Top 3 most effective modern methods of dredging the seabed’. In the video: dredging for the New Suez Canal, how the cutter suction dredgers work, all about trailing suction hopper dredgers, backhoe dredgers, shipyard with the largest cov
The New Manila International Airport (NMIA) – the largest airport in the Philippines – is gaining its headway. According to the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) latest project update, the land development operations are now at 42 percent completion. With an estimated value of EUR 1.5 billion, t
The City of Port Lincoln, SA, will be undertaking maintenance dredging along the beach adjacent to the Laguna Reserve in December. The city has engaged Maritime Constructions to: Move sand from the northern end of the beach to replenish the southern side, Dig out a pit, Pump silt over the groyne int
The cutter suction dredger (CSD) Dubuque departed the Vicksburg Harbor last week for a critical dredging mission along the Red River in response to low water conditions. Drought conditions throughout the Mississippi River Valley have caused a low water event on the lower Mississippi River and its tr
Gorgeous Yichang has just released this beautiful video about a Liebherr P995 floating excavator, taken during the recent Yangtze River dredging program. Taking advantage of the unusually low water level during flood season, Yichang City launched the dredging work to clear the waterway and enhance s
The City of Gig Harbor is proposing to dredge sediment from a location near the northern entrance to the Murphy’s Landing Marina. The purpose of the dredging is to restore the site to previous grades, facilitating boat access into and out from the marina. The proposal includes the dredging of accumu
A new monument to commemorate the successful completion of the modernisation of the Świnoujście-Szczecin fairway in Poland was unveiled recently. DEME and its joint venture partner Van Oord worked closely together to achieve this flagship project – one of the most important investments of the Szczec
Hitachi introduced a new next-generation model from its Stage V-compliant wheel loader range recently at Bauma. The ZW160-7 has been designed to put operators in complete control of their workspace with industry-leading safety features and unrivalled comfort in the cab. To protect the operator and
The City of Port Lincoln (PLCC), South Australia, will be undertaking routine maintenance dredging at the Axel Stenross Boat Ramp in the following weeks. Dredging of the Boat ramp entrance and channel has not occurred since it was constructed and has very slowly accumulated sediments over time resul
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, has released this very interesting video named ‘Dredge Potter pipeline positioning’. The St. Louis District, Dredge Potter can move 50,000 cubic yards per day of alluvial materials from the bottom of the river bed and send the material long dista
Ocean Scientific International Ltd. (OSIL), a company specialized in marine instruments and systems for monitoring and environmental measurement, recently provided a number of lightweight repositionable dredge monitoring buoys to DHI A/S for the Baltic Pipe Project. Dredging activities are vital to
