DEME Group has just released this amazing photo of their new cutter suction dredger Spartacus, making her grand entrance and turning the Rotterdam skyline ‘DEME green’. The most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world, the Spartacus has been built by Royal IHC, and is pictured right in the hear
Southampton Marine Services (SMS) Group, a UK based marine engineering services provider, has started 2021 with a D Class refit on behalf of Hanson Aggregate Marine in Bristol, UK. The refit of the hopper dredger Arco Dart was completed in a Covid-secure environment inside the footprint of The Brist
Damen Trading has recently sold a stock Damen Stan Pontoon (SPo) 6316 to its client GPS Marine Holding BV in Hulst, the Netherlands. The customer was looking for delivery of a flat-top barge in quick time in order to participate in a project taking place in the IJselmeer lake in the north of the Net
Damen Shipyards Group and the Ports of Jersey have signed a contract for a Shoalbuster 2711 – the second vessel of its kind ever to be built. The new vessel will be the second Damen vessel to be operated by the Ports of Jersey, which has operated a Damen Shoalbuster 2709, named Duke of Normandy, [&h
The trailing suction hopper dredger “Daniel Laval” arrived last week at Damen’s Brest drydock No2 for urgent repairs on her bow thruster. The dredger, owned by GIE Dragages Ports, is fitted with a suction pipe on the starboard side with its dredge pump driven by one of the two Wartsila 9L26A main pr
Royal IHC will update the original dredging control system (DCS) and dynamic positioning and dynamic tracking (DP/DT) system of the twin vessels Willem van Oranje and Gateway, owned by Boskalis. The present DCS and DP/DT concepts – dating from newbuilding in 2009/10 – have proven to be reliable syst
Two brand-new Jan De Nul vessels, the cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck and the trailing suction hopper dredger Galileo Galilei, are getting ready for their next challenges. The brand-new dredger Willem van Rubroeck docked in the Port of Ghent yesterday evening. This powerful cutter suction
New dredging of the River Parrett has got off to a good start this week between Northmoor and the M5, Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) reports. “Thanks to Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium and contractors Van Oord for getting on with this important job for Somerset Rivers Authority, within some cha
Just ahead of Christmas, a new marine aggregate dredger, CEMEX UK’s Go Innovation successfully completed sea trials in the Black Sea and is due to arrive in the UK later this year. CEMEX Go Innovation is the first of Damen’s next generation of vessels designed for the extraction of sand and gravel f
Just before Christmas, Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck passed the first tests at sea. Today, this giant left the Remontowa shipyard in Poland. “Our new cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck with a total installed power of 40,975 kW is ready for the next challenge,” said
Liebherr – one of the largest construction machine manufacturers in the world – has just released a video of the electric driven HS 8100.1 E crawler crane, dredging from a pontoon in the harbour basin in Le Havre (France). Company Les Graves de l’Estuaire (L.G.E.) has chosen the electric version for
A Dragflow DRP remote controlled dredger is currently working in Sables de Brévannes, France, cleaning a water sedimentation basin. In this project, the DRP is used to clean a secondary basin. Dragflow remote controlled dredge has the following characteristics: – relaunch distance – 1.000m, – remote
DEME Group today released this beautiful and tranquil photo that might look peaceful, but make no mistake, this area has seen a lot of activity in 2020. The photo is taken along the Condé-Pommeroeul Canal and is actually the largest inland waterway dredging project in France. “Ecoterres, one of our
An electrically driven EDOP150 is currently at work at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, Damen informs. The EDOP has been delivered with gen set and operational container, and will work from an existing work boat. Now the Port of Esbjerg can keep their harbor basins clean and easily accessible for all p
