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
Arab Potash Company (APC) and Royal IHC successfully launched the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Alyarmouk at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen a/d IJssel today. The custom-built vessel is a 3,557kW CSD and a further developed copy of the dredger Jarash, which IHC delivered to APC in 2018. As part of its long
The TSHD Sospan Dau dredger will return to Southsea tonight for around two weeks, according to the latest project update. This second visit will see the Sospan Dau ‘rainbowing’ a load of gravel every high tide to create a second working platform between the Spur Redoubt and the Saluting Platform. “D
Dredge Yard has successfully completed the assembly operations of their new ECO200 electric hydraulic cutter suction dredger (CSD) for a Canadian customer. The cutter dredger dredger was partly fabricated with Dredge Yard partners in the Netherlands and the European Union. The ECO200 CSD has a total
DEME Group has just released this amazing photo from the River Scheldt dredging program. “Emerging from a typical morning mist at this time of the year, our trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Pallieter’ steadfastly carries out her regular maintenance work along the River Scheldt, directly outside our
Straatman BV – specialized in fabrication of hydraulic presses, heavy winches and custom build projects for dredging industry – recently secured an order for the production of a bow discharge installation for a well-known American dredging shipyard. According to the company, the bow discharge instal
Royal IHC has successfully installed the spud towers on the Suez Canal Authority’s cutter suction dredger Hussein Tantawy. “With the towers installed, we are now heading towards the next milestone, the installation of both spuds,” the company said in their latest announcement. The CSD is one of two
Baggerbedrijf de Boer has just released this beautiful video of their water injection dredging tug Fregate, taken during her work on a twelve-year contract “Maintenance dredging at the ports of Cayenne and Kourou in French Guiana”. The consortium Boer Remorquage SARL, involving Dutch Dredging and Is
