In a ceremony led by USACE Buffalo District Deputy District Commander Maj. Lyle Milliman and Deputy District Engineer Dave Romano, held at the Buffalo District’s Ohio Area Office in Cleveland yesterday, Ohio, the Derrickboat Kolber was officially christened. “This boat you see before you is 160 feet
HID Dredging, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, has delivered a cutter suction dredger (CSD) with 4500m3/h for the Changjiang River dredging project. “In addition to the delivery of dredging equipment, we will also supply a spare parts package, assembly, commissioning and ex
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is set to continue beach nourishment along the Delaware Bay. Under the plan, the Pickering Beach nourishment project and others in Delaware Bay communities to be undertaken this year by DNREC will be funded in large part by the A
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, will host a christening ceremony for the Derrickboat Kolber at the USACE Ohio Areas Office, Monday October 24 at 11am. Following the ceremony, public tours of the vessel will be available until 4 p.m., said USACE. This new derrickboat is 160 feet l
Damen will present the DOP150 – the smallest submersible dredge pump of the series – at the Bauma event in Germany next week. Commenting the news, Mr Harrold van Vliet, sales representative at Damen, explains: “The compact dedicated slurry pump has been designed for mounting on an excavator.” “This
With an internal commitment to becoming carbon net zero by 2030, Land & Water has become the first company in the UK to invest in brand new Kobelco SK210 Hybrid 15m Long Reach Tracked Excavators. This specialist plant will add to the firms existing sustainable fleet which aims to reduce the carbon f
Over the last couple of weeks, Michigan-based Luedtke Engineering has been busy dredging the federal navigation channel in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio. Luedtke began dredging Sandusky Harbor on September 18. Due to shallow water levels, they have had to extend the sediment pump-out pipeline. “Boaters shou
Mud Cat just commissioned a brand-new MC 115D dredge at Hannibal Marina on the Mississippi River. The MC 115D will be used for annual maintenance dredging of the marina after the boating season as mandated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The MC 115D is pumping river sediments 1,687 ft. (514m) a
Koninklijke Smals NV, Royal Smals has just released a photo update from an important dredging assignment in Portugal. The rehandling and pumping of a volume of at least 30,000m3 sand from along the existing breakwater in front of the main boulevard. Despite the strongly varying tidal conditions, th
Rohde Nielsen has completed a small port development project in the Port of Mukran in Rügen, Germany, for the client Deutsch Dänische Wasserbau Gmbh. The reclamation work comprised dredging 25.789 m3 of fine and compacted sand in the turning circle in the harbor, where the sand afterward was transp
Waterking BV will be presenting the ES-TRIN certified Waterking amphibious excavator WK55 and the Deltaworker at the Bauma. ES-TRIN certified means that the machine complies with the specified stability and safety standard. All floating equipment on inland waterways are required to comply with this
Dredging operations are about to kick off at the Port of Waterford with a maintenance dredging campaign to be carried out by a Dutch company. According to the Port, Baggerbedrijf De Boer’s trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone will be in the area, ready to conduct activities in the vicinity of Bel
Dare County, in partnership with EJE Dredging Service, hosted a community day and christening ceremony in Wanchese on October 13 to formally honor Miss Katie, the new 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredger. The vessel will be tasked with helping to address the shoaling issues that occur within w
After intensive preparations and close coordination with the relevant Danish and German authorities, an unexploded depth charge on the Danish side of the Fehmarnbelt was defused yesterday. A so-called bubble curtain was used during the controlled explosion to keep underwater noise to a minimum. Ping
