The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ‘????? ??????’ visited the Austal yard in Brisbane recently for scheduled maintenance. The team from the ????? ???????? ??????? ??? assisted with an inspection of the bottom doors and servicing of Impressed Current Anti Fouling (ICAF) and Impressed Current
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained two Malaysia-flagged dredging vessels for anchoring without permission in the waters of Kuala Selangor, the northwestern Selangor. According to Selangor MMEA director Maritime Captain, V. Siva Kumar, the dredgers Inai Terasek and Inai Ken
The dredger named Estoril was handed over to its owner in a special ceremony last week. Fitted out with a renowned Damen submersible DOP dredge pump, the modular dredger will be located at the Port of Beira, where it will be performing maintenance dredging duties to ensure accessibility for larger v
Titan successfully delivered around 350 tonnes of LNG to the dredging vessel Vox Ariane at the Greenport Terminal in Eemshaven, Rotterdam, last week. The giant vessel is a 10,500 cubic metres trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), owned by Van Oord. “It is the first hopper in Van Oord’s fleet equip
JICORE Group Incorporated is building the first ever Water Injection Dredger (WID) in Malaysia with partnership to various global experts in dredging design and technology. For this project, MOTAS Dredging Solutions will design, build, supply and commission an equipment package for the 50m seabed le
In order to simplify and transform dredging, DSC Dredge continues to leverage technology by taking DSC VISION to a new level and widening its scope with its announcement to release DSC VISION Survey+ . The announcement was made live by Bill Wetta, SVP of Product Development and Chief Technology Offi
Featuring well-established flowmeter technology with a high end non-nuclear density meter, KROHNE recently presented the next generation of instrumentation for dredging applications – the OPTIFLUX 4300 ERT. Following the specifically designed OPTIFLUX 4000 series, the latest OPTIFLUX 4300 ERT delive
The City of Palmer, Alaska, recently purchased a new Mud Cat MC-40E, replacing a 20 year old Mud Cat E-Series dredge. The first dredge, which is still going strong, will be used as state mandated back-up unit. The Mud Cat 40 Electric auger dredge is remote controlled and is the most popular E-Series
The commissioning of the first of two Italdraghe 10” dredgers supplied to the Indian Government has just been completed. In the next few days, the assembly and commissioning of the remaining one will take place as well. Currently, Italdraghe technicians are on site, in order to instruct and collabor
Systems integrator Alewijnse recently completed the comprehensive electrical and automation installation on board the new build trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Krakesandt. The Krakesandt is the second advanced dredging project that Alewijnse has undertaken for Thecla Bodewes Shipyards for its
A Hall Contracting backhoe dredge arrived in Port Hedland last week, Spoilbank Marina said. Due to its low clearance hull design, the dredge was transported from the Middle East on board a semi-submersible heavy load carrier. After arriving at anchorage, the heavy load carrier was submersed, allowin
Eastern Shipbuilding Group yesterday held a christening and launching of the Weeks Marine latest hopper dredger – the R.B. Weeks. The dredger, measuring 356 feet long by 79.5 feet wide and with a draft of 27 feet 3 inches, is an identical vessel to the Magdalen that was delivered to Weeks in 2017. L
Rohde Nielsen has just released this amazing photo of the hopper dredger Idun R, during her recent night work in Argentina. The Idun R is a very efficient and versatile dredger that, considering the size, pushes all boundaries of performance. The vessel is capable of dredging at impressive depths, w
The 2.500m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Andre L visited Damen’s repair yard in Brest recently. The dredger, owned by Dragages Transports & Travaux Maritimes (DTM), was there for scheduled maintenance. According to Damen, the replacement of the slide flange guiding rails was amongst the jo
