MAN PrimeServ has signed a long-term service agreement (LTSA) with GIE Dragages-Ports, which includes inspection kits and preventative maintenance services as well as remote assistance (PrimeServ Assist) and engine-fluid analysis (PrimeServ LAB). The Samuel de Champlain dredger (117 m, 8,500 m³) bel
Bergmanns BV, the dredging spare parts specialists, in collaboration with Danfoss Power Solutions II BV recently completed another repair project for Suez Canal Authority. After years of operation, the hydraulic cylinder responsible for lifting the spud of bucket wheel dredger Barakat was failing as
Dredging operations at Australia’s deep-water global gateway have received a significant boost with the launch of Port of Newcastle’s new multipurpose “sweeper” vessel, Lydia. The bed levelling vessel will work in tandem with the Port’s hydrographic survey team and the David Allan dredger to provide
Rohde Nielsen’s two trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) Modi R and Viking R are currently busy on a task in Western Australia. According to the Kastrup, Denmark, based dredging contractor, the TSHDs will first dredge shell sand in the offshore area Owen Anchorage and then navigate close to the
New split-hull dredging vessel Omvac Catorce was successfully launched last week. In March 2021, Nodosa – Spain’s most experienced shipbuilder of split-hull dredgers – closed the contract for the construction of the fourth dredger of this type in recent years. This is the third dredger of this type
Qingzhou Golden Julong Equipment Manufacturing (a brother company of Qingzhou Julong Environment Technology) has delivered a second cutter suction dredger to the Bunati Port Authority (BPA), Indonesia. According to the Chinese dredger builder, BPA bought one CSD450 model cutter suction dredger BUNAT
A pond improvement project at Hillview Recreation Area, just west of Hinton, IA, is moving forward. Plymouth County Conservation has just released this beautiful photo from this very important cleanup program. Plymouth County County Engineer, Tom Rohe, said that no recreational activities, including
HID Shipyard, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, handed over the new tin ore mining dredger Lucky Star 168 to an Indonesian client earlier this month. The vessel is 95m long and has a working weight of 1300t. At the ceremony in the Yangkou Port, Jiangsu Province, HID Company’
The Damen CSD500 Yantra is currently at work on the Danube River, doing continuous maintenance dredging operations. The dredger is deepening the river to the locally required inland transport water depth of -3m. The vessel’s home port is Ruse, Bulgaria, where the CSD is part of the fleet of the Exec
Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vox Ariane has been spotted in the Dutch water. “Vox Ariane is our latest edition to the fleet. In this picture you can see her performing dredging trials at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam,” said Van Oord. Recently delivered by Keppel Offshore & Marine,
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District’s Dredge Potter got underway last week from the St. Louis District’s Service base where it started it’s 90th dredging season. Carrying out the District’s mission of maintaining a nine-foot deep, 300-foot wide channel on 300 miles of the Mississippi
Damen is set to deliver a customised cutter suction dredger, type CSD500, next month. The dredger will be transported to the site, a mining plant in Eastern Africa, just weeks after receiving the order. “As Damen we have been present in this region for over three decades,” Mr Hugo Doorenbos, Area Sa
Van Oord has ordered the construction of two additional water injection dredgers (WIDs) from Kooiman Marine Group. This comes after the successful operation of sister vessels Maas and Mersey in 2021. The new WIDs will have the same specifications, supplemented by innovative optimisations. According
Conoship International B.V. has just released this amazing photo of the new water injection dredger Aquadelta. The photo was taken last week, during her trip from Scheepswerf Bijlsma to the owner Bagger- en Aannemingsmaatschappij Van der Kamp B.V. The vessel’s sea trials took place this week. The ne
