HID Dredging, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, said that their new amphibious dredger is on its way to a customer in the Philippines. The dredger has transport length of 12 meters (without boom), transport width of 3.3 meters, transport weight of approximately 22.5 tonnes.
Bell Dredging Pumps BV, trough their French dealer PAJOT Solutions de battage, recently rented a BELL150 equipped with a cutterhead to customer in Brest. Easy to mount to almost all types of excavators, this multi-functional dredge pump can be equipped with various suction heads for dredging differe
Beng Kuang Marine Limited has designed and developed specialised dredging equipment for offshore tin mining activities. Installed on barges, the specialised dredging equipment has been tested for operational efficiency in various offshore tin mining sites in Indonesia with the following highlights:
The second of Damen’s new Shoalbuster 2711 class was handed over to its owner Ports of Jersey recently in a christening ceremony held at Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld. First introduced in 2019, the compact, 27-metre Shoalbuster 2711 provides an extra two metres of beam compared to its predecessor, the
New Damen’s cutter suction dredger CSD350 is on its way to Brazil. This new cutter suction dredger is a sister vessel to the dredger Amsterdam that was delivered to the Brazilian company Construtora Vale Verde in 2019. The Holanda is a fully dismountable, stationary dredger fitted out for one-man op
Julong Environment Technology delivered a 4000m3/hr customized dredger HAILINGHUCAI 001 to Jiangsu Communications Construction Group recently. The dredger is 34.0m long and 12.3m wide, and adopts a modular design to facilitate transportation by road. It has a dredge pump flow rate of 4000m3/hr and a
The Equipment Management Division of the Philippines’ Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Region III has acquired new dredging and support equipment that will be used in river dredging projects and disaster response and recovery operations in Central Luzon. According to DPWH-EMD Region
Eddy Pump, an engineering company that builds dredge equipment and industrial pumps, continues to evolve and set the pace for slurry pump technology. According to the company, their team of engineers has developed a new state-of-the-art metallurgical formulation. After years of computational materia
Straatman BV completed engineering and production of three pinch ball joints earlier this week – all executed in their factory in Zwjjndrecht. These specific type of ball joints will be used on the cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) between floating pipeline and CSD. The great advantage of this ball joi
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Endam is being fitted out with Damen dredging equipment. According to Damen, the gantries and winches are installed, and the Di 900 mm trailing suction pipe – designed to dredge at -30 m – is put into place. The multi-purpose vessel will primarily act as an
ROHR-IDRECO Dredge Systems (Netherlands/USA, Germany, France) has just announced two new cutter suction dredge (CSD) models, the Hawk and Falcon, to its product line-up. Group CEO, Fulco Vrooland Löb, said: “With our roots in the wet mining industry, we have been building electrical dredges for deca
Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, HID Dredging recently launched another vessel from its portfolio—the HID 80-ton excavator barge. According to the company, the barge is specially developed to support excavator working in water for hard layer dredging project. It can backup ex
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a virtual public board meeting on December 7 to consider the draft final report on hazardous liquid pipeline strike and subsequent explosion and fire aboard the dredger Waymon Boyd. On August 21, 2020, the Waymon Boyd struck a submerged 16-in
In one of the sessions of this year’s Europort event, the Enschede-based Alia Instruments took the opportunity to present their one of a kind non-nuclear slurry density meter – the Alia Density Meter (ADM). The ADM offers accurate real-time data, allowing clients to truly optimize their production w
