The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) held a ceremony yesterday to celebrate the arrival of the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy. The giant dredger came aboard the heavy load carrier Tai An Kou. The CSD, built by Royal IHC, is a 29,190kW heavy-duty rock dredger and will be used to maintain and
DEME has taken delivery of its giant new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus from Dutch shipyard Royal IHC. According to DEME, the Spartacus sets a new benchmark in the global dredging market – this is the world’s largest and most powerful self-propelled cutter suction dredger and the first able
Manson Construction and Keppel AmFELS held a keel laying ceremony for the hopper dredger Frederick Paup on August 2. The new dredger will be the largest self-propelled hopper dredger in the USA. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries from the shipyard and Manson, including the vessel’s namesake,
The USACE Memphis District and mechanics at Ensely Engineer Yard are busy repairing the Wilmington District’s flagship dredger – the Currituck. The Currituck, the largest USACE’s dustpan dredger, works in the shallow-draft ocean bar channels along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and can deposit all tha
Yaroslavsky Shipyard launched a non-self-propelled dredging vessel of Project RDB 66.42М yesterday. According to the press center of the Yaroslavl Region Government, this is the first vessels of this type built by Yaroslavsky Shipyard. “The shipyard has a great technological, logistic and labour pot
ROHR-IDRECO has announced an order for a large, fully electric driven cutter suction dredger (CSD), with maximum digging depth of 30 meters. The dredger, to be handed over to a European multinational company, will be built at the company’s Mannheim-Germany manufacturing facility – with delivery sche
DEME Group has just released this amazing photo of their mighty trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Uilenspiegel alongside the water injection dredger (WID) Dhamra. The Uilenspiegel has been working close to Hamburg, while the Dhamra was dredging high spots in the fairway of the River Elbe. Accor
Almost four months after it got stuck in the Suez Canal, the 20,000 TEU containership Ever Given has reached its planned destination in Rotterdam. The giant resumed its voyage to Rotterdam after receiving the official approval to depart the waterway from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). According to
The Middle East’s largest dredger – the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy – arrived in the Suez Canal yesterday. The giant dredger came aboard the heavy load carrier Tai An Kou, and is now waiting in the Bitter Lakes to be floated apart from the vessel. The CSD, built by Royal IHC, is a 2
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is citing a Mobile dredging equipment manufacturer after investigation into 22-year-old worker’s death. Earlier this year, the apprentice atop a crane bridge 30 feet in the air suffered fatal injuries when he became caught in a crane trolley’s drive shaft, a traged
The new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Hussein Tantawy is ready to hitch a lift to Egypt – to join Suez Canal Authority’s (SCA) fleet of dredgers, Royal IHC said. This cutter dredger is one of two vessels that Suez Canal Authority ordered from IHC. Her sister vessel, Mohab Mameesh, was delivered to SC
KCL, an authorized distributor and sole agent for Damen, has supervised, commissioned and delivered three DOP amphibious excavators for the Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department (RID) projects. Amphibious excavators were given to RID in three provinces: Phitsanulok, Ayutthaya and Khon Kaen, respect
After extensive testing, the new cutter suction dredger CSD500 is ready to go, Damen said in their latest announcement. The dredger will be shipped fully disassembled; as a result the Damen team has started taking the dredger apart. Initially, it will sail from Antwerp to Montevideo, Uruguay, before
EDDY Pump Corporation has just revealed new addition to the company’s excavator dredge attachment family, the XL REACH. According to EDDY, the XL REACH product increases dredging reach of the equipment from 13 to 23 Ft. “This is another New addition to the Excavator Attachment Family. One Dredge wit
