Scheepswerf Bijlsma, a Wartena based company specialized in building multipurpose vessels, pulled out of its shipyard new water injection dredger (WID) Aquadelta last week. The new WID is about to hit the water in the following days, the company said. Scheepswerf Bijlsma is a family-owned shipbuildi
Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch-owned shipbuilding company with operations in 120 countries and 175 vessels delivered annually, has adopted Matterport digital twins to facilitate remote collaboration for internal and external stakeholders. With access to Matterport’s rich, dimensionally accurate data
Dredging operations are underway to free the Evergreen Marine containership Ever Forward, stranded in the Chesapeake Bay for more than a week now. State and federal agencies have issued all permits for the work, said the Maryland Port Administration Executive Director, William P. Doyle. Donjon Marin
Remu Oy’s Big Float E22 with Hyundai 220 is currently busy working on a very important restoration project in Lithuania. The Nemunas River and the Curonian Lagoon from Kaunas to Klaipeda in Lithuania form an inland waterway of international importance E41 – part of the Trans-European Transport Netwo
Build of yet another Audex dredger is well underway at the Chesterfield factory, Atlantic Pumps said. The package now includes the welfare and control cabin for operator comfort and real time monitoring of all functions. “Our small dredgers are ideal for quarry use and can be operated in shallow wat
W&O Supply has signed a new agreement with one of the world’s leading civil engineering and dredging companies, Jan De Nul Group. The contract expands upon the existing ten-year relationship, and will see W&O supply marine valves and instrumentation to Jan De Nul to meet the needs of its complex and
In the past, the ability of a dredge operator to see what is happening at the bottom of the channel, lake, river, or ocean has never been possible, and an operator has always been dependent on instrumentation and surveys. Today, DSC Dredge, Teledyne Marine and Trimble through joint efforts and a com
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) and Cochin Shipyard are set to sign a contract for construction of a 12,000cm capacity trailer suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for EUR104 million under Make in India program. The project will be funded through a mix of equity from Cochin Shipyard, four major ports –
Rohde Nielsen was awarded the maintenance dredging of the main access channel to the Port of Mar del Plata in Argentina in September 2021. Rohde’s hopper dredger Idun R has successfully executed dredging of 550.000 m3 material for the client, Consorcio Portuario Regional. The project started in Nove
Oiltech Dredging Equipment from the Netherlands has successfully delivered another gold mining dredger with all the associated equipment, this time to a customer in Central Africa. According to Oiltech, this will soon be the fourth new machine purchased for gold mining in a short time. This dredger
Bay Island Drainage District’s brand-new IMS Model 5012 LP Versi-Dredge maintains over 20 miles of drainage canals using the IMS Broadcaster discharge attachment. The material is deposited on both sides of the canal and the water runs back to the canal leaving a thin layer of nutrient rich silt on t
Jan De Nul kicked off the second round of dredging and beach replenishment works in Ostend recently. The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Alexander von Humboldt is currently busy conducting these sustainable beach replenishment works along the Flemisch coast. “She will bring some 600,000 cubic
The finishing touches on the Hegemann Dredging’s new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Hegemann V are in full swing now. At the moment, the TSHD is pulled out on the Kooiman Marine Group’s slipway in Zwijndrecht. The newbuild, developed by Kooiman in a collaboration with Hegemann, is designed t
Rohde Nielsen has just released this beautiful photo of their split hopper dredger Balder R during her work in Hirtshals, Denmark. “Balder R is a significant asset in our fleet and plays an essential role in our dredging projects, whether it is nearshore or offshore,” said the company. With a hopper
