A customized Damen cutter suction dredger – type CSD500 – has arrived on site at Port of Umm Qasr, Iraq. The dredger was named recently by her owner, Basra Gateway Terminal (BTG), at the Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands. Immediately after the ceremony, the dredger was made ready for transport
HR Wallingford, an independent civil engineering and environmental hydraulics organization, has just released a very interesting article named “Developing a new tool to optimize sea wall design”. Sea walls are designed to protect people, property and infrastructure from large waves that can occur wh
Damen Shipyards Group has introduced a Water Injection Dredger (WID), courtesy of a plug & play system aboard a Damen Multi Cat. “Damen invented the Multi Cat as the ideal dredge support vessel – what I like to think of as floating work bench – for Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSD). This is a logical st
This week Damen Shipyards Group will participate at the Hydro conference in Danang, Vietnam. The Hydropower 2018 show takes place from the 13th to 15th of March 2018 at Ariyana Danang Exhibition and Congress Center and Furama Resort in Danang, Vietnam. On Thursday, March 15th, Olivier Marcus, Produc
Royal IHC yesterday held a keel-laying ceremony for the Easydredge 3.700m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) that is being built for Tecnoimport and Empresa Constructora de Obras Maritimas from Havana, Cuba. The new vessel is the largest in the series of standardized Easydredge® twin-screw TSHD
Damen Marine Components (DMC) and Van der Velden Marine Systems (VDVMS) recently announced a merger, Damen said in its latest announcement. As of 1st January the two companies are operating together as Damen Marine Components Netherlands (DMC NL). DMC has been operating ever since the early eighties
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 26 – March 4, 2018). Van Oord Wins Port of Benoa Dredging Contract State-owned port operator Pelindo III has contracted Van Oord to carry out dredging works in the Port of Benoa, Bali. Port of Everett
Understanding and predicting coastal flooding is a challenging and urgent problem in the presence of sea-level rise, a changing climate, and ever-growing coastal populations. Although this issue is global in scale, understanding and predicting flooding along tropical coral reef-lined shorelines pres
The Rothen Group, a national independent civil engineering and maintenance business servicing UK Waterways, has introduced a new 70ft narrow-beam crane boat to its fleet. According to the company, the 70ft narrow-beam crane boat has made lock maintenance even safer, more cost-effective and efficient
The first Gravity Based Foundation for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak was installed in Denmark this weekend, marking another milestone in this project, Jan De Nul said in its latest release. It concerns a 8,000 tonnes GBF which was floated off the semisubmersible barge and towed to the install
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 12 – 18, 2018). DEME’s TSHD Scheldt River Bunkered with LNG in Germany DEME’s new dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Scheldt River’ was successfully bunkered with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at Br
Royal IHC successfully launched a 5,940kW cutter suction dredger (CSD) for Golden Falcon Marine Construction on 28 January at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. Abu Dhabi based Golden Falcon Marine Construction was formed in January 2006, with the objective of carrying out dr
DEME’s new dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Scheldt River’ was successfully bunkered with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at Brunsbüttel Ports yesterday. Approximately 85 tonnes of the environmentally friendly fuel was loaded, making this the largest LNG bunkering operation in Germany so far,
Royal IHC has completed the substantial renovation of the self-propelled cutter suction dredger HUTA 14, owned by Saudi Arabian Huta Marine. The vessel is already undertaking operations after final tests were successfully completed last week on the CSD, said IHC. The renovation project was accomplis
