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
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
