Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 14 – 20, 2019). Coast Guard Recovers Body of Volvox Asia Crew After two day of intensive search operation, the Indian Coast Guard earlier this week recovered the body of a crew member of the trailing suctio
Dredge Yard has just introduced the first 2019 addition to their dredger family – ECO 150s series. According to the company, these dredgers (Auger ECO 150, Plain Suction ECO 150 and Water Injection ECO 150) are compact, easily transportable and especially cost-efficient, have low fuel-consumption an
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday debuted its “Engineering with Nature” atlas to the public at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. “The projects presented and considered in this atlas use an Engineering With Nature lens as a means of revealing the use of nature-based approaches
The stationary dredger SEEM 16-640ST Milady, with a steel hull and aluminium structure, has officially been launched at Merré Shipyard in France. Set to be delivered later this year, the Milady was built by Merré Shipyard for the Services Industriels de Genève based in Switzerland. The concept of th
Royal IHC recently partnered with Stiamak Barunawati and Pelindo III to deliver a dredging seminar in Surabaya, Indonesia. The aim of the last month’s event was to give an insight into the world of dredging, and encourage contractors and other relevant parties to enter this field by sharing IHC’s di
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Essayons was lifted into drydock earlier this week in Honolulu for annual repairs and maintenance. “Many components of a ship can only be inspected while in drydock. Crews visually check everything below the
Qingzhou Julong Environment Technology Co. Ltd., a Qingzhou City based manufacturer and supplier of dredging equipment, recently delivered another set of dredging equipment to Latin America. One portable cutter suction dredger Julong-CSD2006 and 300 meters of discharge pipelines were shipped to Lati
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (December 31, 2018 – January 6, 2019). GLDD Bags Corpus Christi Dredging Project Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has announced the receipt of a $93 million contract award for the Corpus Christi Ship C
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular interviews from the past year. Interview with Piedroba: Offering More Business-Driven Solutions Piedroba Consulting Group (PCG), a Miami-based marine infrastructure consultancy firm specializing in project risk management, has continued to
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular videos from the past year. VIDEO of the Vox Amalia Christening Ceremony On December 14, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands christened Van Oord’s latest addition to the fleet, the 18,000 cubic meters trailing suction hopper dredger
The Dutra Group, a San Rafael, California, based dredging contractor, has just released these amazing photos of their clamshell dredger Paula Lee and trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Stuyvesant, during the work on the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Project in Florida. The U.S. Army Corps of Eng
Verhoef EMC said in its latest release that they have agreed on a contract with Royal IHC for the complete electrical installation of a custom built 2.500kVA dismountable cutter suction dredger (CSD). The scope of work is consisting of the in-house engineering, system integration, fabrication, insta
The North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA) has announced its intention to purchase a water injection dredge (WID) for maintenance of the authorized depths at all berths, quays, and turning basins of the Port of Morehead City and the Port of Wilmington facility. The NCSPA seeks qualified naval
Cowes Harbor Commission’s (CHC) harbor turbidity monitoring equipment is in the process of being upgraded to enable automatic data transmission instead of the current manual data collection, reports the CHC. CHC set up a long-term program to monitor the turbidity of the estuary in November 2015. Thi
