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
The Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Ingeniería de Topografía y Caminos S.A. (T&C) for a customised cutter suction dredger (CSD) 500. T&C, a civil contractor in Paraguay, will use the dredger to transform the southern river bank of the capital Asunción, in the Costanera Sur project.
The shipping industry is struggling with high seas: shipping companies are faced with the challenge of efficiently combining environmental protection and economic efficiency. To bring the two together, marine contractor Van Oord has now chosen to install Orcan Energy’s efficiency PACKs, an organic R
Aberdeen has been a busy international port for nearly 900 years. Its harbour is the oldest existing business in the UK. To accommodate the significantly larger vessels and large-scale operations, Aberdeen Harbour needed to extend their current port facilities and Van Oord was commissioned to do all
A ceremony was held at Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld recently to mark the naming of the first of a new model in the Damen Shoalbuster range. The ultra-shallow, Shoalbuster 3514 SD was christened Brutus by Mrs Mandy Heere-van Eijk, on behalf of the tug and workboat company Herman Sr. To mark the occasi
In close cooperation with Kooiman Marine Group and Van Oord, Dromec has developed, built and supplied 2x Active Heave Compensated 30 mT winches for Van Oords new hybrid water-injection dredger Maas. Besides winches, Dromec also supplied the AHC controls, software and integration to the Van Oord HMI
The naming ceremonies have been held for two hybrid water injection vessels – Maas and Mersey. The event took place yesterday at the Van Oord head office jetty in Rotterdam. Ms Karin Schinagl, wife of Managing Director Netherlands Ronald Schinagl, named the vessel Maas. Ms Karien van Oord performed
ROHR-IDRECO ended last year with the successful launch of the cutter wheel suction dredger, built for Colombian gold mining specialist Mineros Aluvial – the largest they have built to date. Many were involved in the final assembly and launching of this 53-meter long, 255-ton dredger. Equipped with t
