The Damen Dredging service team was very busy recently, working on the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Marinus G. The TSHD is owned by Gebroeders Van der Lee. “My colleagues, Roland van de Weerdt and Matthew Van Heerden, replaced the dredge pumps seals during a general pump overhaul,” said Da
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has announced the exercise of the contract option to build a second 6,500-cubic-yard-capacity trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) with Conrad Shipyard in Amelia, Louisiana. With expected delivery in the first quarter of 2025, the new vessel will be a si
Another important piece of dredging equipment is leaving the Straatman BV factory. This female part of a pinch ball joint, engineered and manufactured at their own factory in Zwijndrecht, has an inner diameter of Ø1000 mm and a maximum working pressure of 28 bar. Pinch ball joints are used on cutter
DC Dredging B.V. has just released these beautiful photos of the trailing suction hopper dredgers Rio and DC Ostend working in the Port of Gdańsk. This dredging project is called ‘Improving access to the Port of Gdańsk – modernisation of fairway 2’. Within the framework of this undertaking, it is pl
Jan De Nul’s new water injection dredger (WID) Pancho is currently in Latin America, getting ready for its first dredging task. “Thanks to an excellent cooperation between Jan De Nul Group and Neptune Marine, the water injection dredger Pancho has arrived in Argentina almost one year after the contr
Van Oord unveiled the latest addition to its dredging fleet today. The Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s first trailing suction hopper dredger equipped with an LNG fuel system, was christened by its CFO and member of the Executive Committee Ms. Jolanda Poots-Bijl. The TSHD has a hopper capacity of approximatel
Ellicott Dredges LLC has just announced another successful dredge launch. The new 1270 dredge will operate near Salem, New Jersey, replacing a 16” Series 970 – operational since 1983. “The Ellicott 970 had provided the mine owner with many years of reliable service,” Ellicott said. While the owner c
Systems integrator Alewijnse has successfully completed another upgrade project, this time on board the unique floating sand processing installation Kaliwaal 41. During the annual winter break, owner Van Nieuwpoort Groep installed new conveyor belts, electric motors and a submersible dredge pump to
A new HID 3-in-1 dredging vessel was launched in the City of Ningbo today. According to the Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, this piece of machinery has the function of mud dredging, flocculation and solidification – the HID’s patent product. A strong power system and electri
The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, today commissioned two ultra-modern IHC Beaver 50 dredgers and marine equipment of Dredge Masters Limited (DML). Unveiling the dredging equipment at the DML yard at Adjei Kojo in Ashaiman, Accra, the President said that this new fleet of DML will
Bakker Sliedrecht has upgraded Boskalis’ cutter suction dredger (CSD) Taurus II by increasing the vessel’s booster capacity. According to Bakker, by increasing capacity of the dredge pumps from 6000 to 7400 kilowatts, the Taurus II now can pump dredge material over greater distances from the station
Rosmorport’s Astrakhan branch fleet has now been expanded with the dredging vessel Kronshlot. According to the company, the dredger was earlier operated by Rosmorport’s North-West Basin Branch. The Kronshlot, built by Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard (Nizhny Novgorod) in 2016, is the 10th ship of the branc
Italdraghe has just launched a new concept of Dredging Head: Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head. This new piece of dredging equipment will be sent to Vietnam this week. “Our customer from Vietnam was involved in a dredging work on a seabed with corals and rocks.Italdraghe team worked hard to meet their c
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Portland District has just released this beautiful photo, taken yesterday at Gray’s Harbor, Washington, where the Essayons is busy dredging the navigation channel. You can see a storm is brewing off the port (left) side. Meanwhile, USACE’s other dredge, the Yaquina
