A launching ceremony of the Coastal Crown, the most sustainable workboat in the market, took place two days ago at the Bijlsma Wartena shipyard in the Netherlands. The 36-meter-long vessel, the newest addition to Acta Marine’s fleet, is an ultra-shallow draft Multicat-type, equipped with Tier III en
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Multi Cat 2712 to Orkney-based Leask Marine. The vessel has been delivered just six weeks following the contract, Damen said. “The Multi Cat, named C-Force, is Leask Marine’s second Damen vessel. They have operated their first, the C-Salvor, a Multi Cat 2409, fo
Conrad Shipyard LLC has awarded VOSTA LMG orders for a Dredge Control and Monitoring system (DCMS) and Side Suction Pipe System (SSPS) Gantry System. These systems will be implemented in the new 6.500 yrd3 (5.000 m3) hopper dredge (TSHD) that Conrad Shipyard is currently building for Great Lakes Dre
The Association of Professional Boatman of Serbia has released this shocking video of an overloaded dredge barge snapping in half. The video also shows the moment when a worker makes an impressive jump to safety after the overloaded barge snapped in half and began sinking. The incident took place du
HID Dredging Equipment Company has successfully delivered a large floating pontoon to Uruguay. The large 30M barge pontoon successfully arrived in Uruguay last week. HID engineers assisted the owner in assembling and commissioning of the barge pontoon. According to HID, this piece of equipment was s
Wabtec Corporation and U.S. Channel Partner, Cummins Sales & Service, recently signed a contract to supply the main power for the largest U.S. flagged, self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredge, Frederick Paup. Wabtec will deliver five V250MDC marine diesel engines (three 16V250MDC units and two
In recent decades, Liebherr has demonstrated the quality and reliability of its electric technology with the success of its dedicated product ranges for mining, dredging and materials handling applications. Today, the company is presenting two new local zero emission machines, the Liebherr R 976-E a
The brand new dredger Willem van Rubroeck of Jan De Nul Group is being prepared for its first job. Bakker Sliedrecht delivered and installed the electrical machinery package, including the propulsion drives and Alarm Monitoring System BIMAC. Watch the project video they created together with Jan de
Hansel Marine, a Chinese company involved in the production of dredgers and dredging equipment, has successfully delivered new HS-45DW cutter suction dredger (CSD) to a salt mine in Qinghai Province, China. The new CSD is a piece of equipment very suitable for dredging hard soil up to 18MPa, said th
Phillips & Jordan, a woman-owned, heavy civil and infrastructure contractor established in 1952, recently launched a brand new Sharkuda dredger, built by DSC. “Christened after our Chairwoman, this swinging ladder dredger is the latest addition to our marine fleet as we expand our in-house dredging
The cutter suction dredger (CSD) MOHAB MAMEESH is on its way to Egypt. “We waved the vessel goodbye when it was loaded on a semi-submersible cargo vessel and after which it started it journey towards Egypt. The vessel is expected to arrive within the couple of days,” Royal IHC announced today. With
Rohde Nielsen A/S has just released this amazing photo of the hopper dredger Thor R, taken during their recently completed project in Germany. During October and November 2020, Rohde Nielsen A/S performed a maintenance dredging project in the 7-kilometre-long entrance channel to Ladebow. The works w
Deme Group has just released this beautiful photo of a stunning sunrise which could easily be an advertisement from the Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board. “The crew of our TSHD Lange Wapper were treated to this glorious panoramic view when they were busy performing maintenance dredging works for our
Although mobility might not be the first quality that comes to mind when talking about a 300,000-pound machine, that’s what attracted Broussard Brothers Inc. to their new Sennebogen 875 R-HD material handler. “We originally saw the 875 at CONEXPO,” said Chip Broussard, a third-generation member and
