Appointed by Conwy County Borough Council, Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK has delivered several shoreside improvements as the Principal Contractor to reduce flooding risks for more than 2,000 residential and commercial properties in North Wales. The project included: – Procuring nearly 66,500 tons
Nauplius Workboats said that their new Delta Multi Craft (DMC) 1450 has officially been launched. Built for their strategic partner Royal IHC, the DMC 1450 will soon begin her next chapter, supporting dredging operations in the Middle East. “The DMC1450 with it’s length of 14.5 meter and a breadth o
DE Klop BV is currently working on a major upgrade of the Rotterdam 26 (CYGNUS 500), a project they are carrying out together with Dekker Groep. This substantial extension will enable the fully electric cutter suction dredger to operate at increasingly greater dredging depths. The first phase will i
AYK Energy and Gebhard Electro are strengthening their collaboration by striking a new deal to electrify two workboats. The first project is the construction of a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD1000) at Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands for UK Dredging, part of Associated British Ports. T
Boskalis’ new 31,000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Seaway started its first project recently. Off the coast of Den Helder in the Netherlands, the hopper dredger is being deployed to nourish the channel embankment, protecting the coastline against natural erosion and rising sea levels. Th
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ newest hopper dredger, the Donnelly, is taking shape at Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Florida. Built to replace the nearly 60-year-old dredge McFarland, the Donnelly is a ready reserve vessel designed to carry forward the Corps’ navi
Representatives of Metalkol have completed the technical inspection of their newly acquired cutter suction dredger (CSD) 500 at the Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands. Following extensive inspections and testing, the customised CSD was approved for delivery. It will be transported to the Democra
Sand pumping operations are now underway in Brighton. Van Oord UK and Ireland, together with Mackley, in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council, has successfully completed the first beach nourishment pump as part of the Brighton Marina to River Adur Coastal Scheme – Phase 2. “This marks an ex
Van Oord’s sustainable hybrid water injection dredger (WID) Rhône arrived at Balaena Birkenhead last month for a major program of survey, maintenance and repair work. The vessel’s schedule of works included an intermediate class survey, as well as the replacement of pins and bushes on her jet pipe,
Royal Van der Leun has been awarded the electrical engineering scope for a new Easydredge® 2700XL trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), currently under construction by Royal IHC for a dredging project in West Africa. “With the contract now signed, our engineering team is getting straight to work a
The Webuild Group strengthens its presence in Liguria with an €803 million contract awarded by Autostrade per l’Italia for the construction of the central section of the Genoa Undersea Road Tunnel. The project will be executed by Webuild (90 percent) and its subsidiary SELI Overseas (10 percent). Ac
Wasa Dredging said that their heavy-duty backhoe dredger Optimus kicked off the dredging operations on the Tornio outer fairway recently. The outer fairway in Tornio refers to the maritime shipping channel leading into the Port of Tornio (Port of Röyttä) located in the northern part of the Bothnian
Dredging works have officially started at Anaklia Deep Sea Port in Georgia, marked by the arrival of the first dredging vessel Tristao Da Cunha into the maritime aquatory of the future port. Under the development plan, the seabed in the Anaklia marine area will be deepened to 17.5m, followed by the
