The dredging works to free Evergreen’s boxship the Ever Forward are in full swing now. According to the Maryland Port Administration Executive Director, William P. Doyle, the first refloat attempt will take place tomorrow, March 29, by using five tugs; two pushing on starboard side, two pulling from
A Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) dredger, which ran aground near Fort Kochi on Thursday evening, resumed service this morning. The dredger lost control around 5.30 p.m. on March 25, following an engine failure, according to the Dredging Corporation of India officials. The dredger drifted while
The construction of the Miss Katie, a new hopper dredger that will be used in the various channels and inlets throughout Dare County, is nearing completion. This shallow-draft hopper dredger recently received its final coat of exterior paint, marking a major milestone in the construction process tha
Eastern Shipbuilding Group is currently very busy with the construction of the new training suction hopper dredger (TSHD) R.B. Weeks. The 8,550 cubic yards (6,540m³) TSHD, currently under construction at the Eastern’s Allanton premises in Panama City, Florida, is expected to be delivered to Weeks Ma
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
