Due to increasing demand, Van Ouwerkerk BV is expanding its fleet. The sand mining company based in Middelburg, the Netherlands, has awarded Holland Shipyards Group a contract to convert the newly acquired cargo vessel MS Bente into a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The converted ship will b
After completing delivery of a 50 ton bow discharge coupling unit to Damen Dredging Equipment late last year, Straatman BV is putting finishing touches to another bow discharge project. One of the projects that the company is working on at present is a 25 ton bow discharge unit for a well known Amer
In 2021, DSC Dredge announced the release of its’ newly improved Moray class dredge. One year later, the first of its collaborative build between DSC’s Greenbush and Reserve facility has been successfully delivered to it’s new home in Salem, New Jersey. The vessel hit the water with DSC’s latest pat
More and more historical items are being discovered in the Savannah River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Savannah District has just released this amazing video named ‘Savannah River Cannon Recovery 2022’. Rare relics from an important period in early Georgia history rose from the Savannah River
The Lake County Nutrient Reduction Facility (NuRF) located on the Apopka-Beauclair Canal south of the Lake Beauclair, Florida, has taken delivery of two brand-new custom-built Mud Cat MC 50E dredges from Ellicott Dredge Technologies, LLC. The dredges were purchased through open tender to replace the
MOTAS Dredging Solutions has successfully designed, fabricated and shipped a cutter ladder for a large cutter suction dredger. The ladder has been custom designed inhouse by MOTAS engineers in the Netherlands and will be installed on the dredger, currently under construction. Fabrication and partial
The Susanna II, a cutter suction dredger CSD250 of Verboon Maasland is currently at work maintaining a small river called Linie of Passageule, near Oostburg, the south west of the Netherlands. The dredger was built by Damen in 2012, as a sister vessel of the “Susanna I” – now stored on shore. The sw
Royal IHC teams at Kinderdijk shipyard are as busy as a beaver with…well the build and commissioning of a number of their standard modular vessels – IHC Beaver cutter suction dredgers. “These robust vessels can be bought from stock, with standard options, are known for their reliability and excellen
Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has just released this very interesting video about their trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) XIV. The following activities have been covered in this video: Dredging operation includes both suction tubes lifting from chalks, swing out, lower to three me
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scald is currently busy on a dredging project in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, on behalf of Jan De Nul. After the dredging works in Harwich, UK, and some weeks of maintenance dredging in combination with sand deliveries in the Port of Stellendam, the Netherlands, th
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has just released this very interesting video named ‘Timeline of the Ever Given crisis management’. With a length of 400 meters and a width of nearly 60 meters, this giant ship had been wedged in the Suez Canal since March 23, 2021, blocking all shipping traffic. For t
DEME Group’s green duo was spotted earlier this week handing over their duties on the River Elbe fairway in Germany. One of their newest hoppers, the 8,300 m³ ‘Meuse River’, took over the maintenance campaign after a successful intervention by the renowned trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Scheldt Ri
Port of London Authority (PLA) has just released these beautiful photos of the new dredger Hanson Thames alongside the Dagenham terminal. The marine aggregate dredger, built at Damen Shipyards in Romania, arrived safely in the UK last month and already entered in active service. The dredger complete
Bunnal Tech has just released this unbelievable video showing a man constructing a dredge pipeline with his bare hands. Hydraulic dredgers work by sucking a mixture of dredged material and water from the channel bottom. The amount of water sucked up with the material is controlled to make the best m
