After six years of construction, the new Port of Calais was officially inaugurated on September 9, 2021. Considered as one of the largest European port infrastructure projects of the decade, the new port was inaugurated in the presence of Louis Le Franc, prefect of Pas-de-Calais; Xavier Bertrand, pr
Reimerswaal Dredging has announced that their hopper dredger DC Orisant is working hard inside the Thyboron Port dredging the entrance to a deeper level. The deepening of the port entrance is the biggest dredging and port expansion project ever in the more than 100 years history of Thyboron Port. Af
Infrastructure Malta is implementing a €2 million project to protect the Marsaxlokk Nature Reserve and the sandy beach and fishers’ marina next to it from coastal erosion. The agency is piloting an infrastructural intervention to reduce the gradual erosion and lateral displacement of sand and other
Today marks one year since construction of the Southsea Coastal Scheme began. Here are just some of the amazing achievements made since work got underway at Long Curtain Moat: 525 linear metres of sheet piles installed, totalling 6300m2; If the piles were laid end to end, this would make a total of
Jan De Nul Group has just released their latest blog which tells the story about the construction of energy islands in the North Sea. The North Sea plays a pioneering role in the journey towards a climate-neutral society. Nowhere in the world, more offshore wind turbines will be installed in the com
Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) has launched KOEM’s new trailing suction hopper dredger “ENDAM”. The multi-purpose vessel will primarily act as an oil recovery vessel, and will undertake work as a hopper dredger when not tending to emergencies. Last spring, Damen S
Aberdeen Harbour Board announced recently that the final two caissons will soon arrive into the site which will complete the South Pier. They also added that considerable progress has been made on the South Breakwater, which has reached its completed length with work beginning on building its profil
Russian regulatory body Glavgosexpertiza has approved the design documentation and engineering survey results for the construction of new cargo handling facility at Taganrog Port. The new facility that will be built in the area of the port’s Northern pier is expected to handle 270,000 tonnes of carg
The Southsea Coastal Scheme officials have just released the latest update on the UK’s largest local authority-led coastal defences’ project. As reported, placement of the Norwegian anorthosite rock at the Frontage 1 site is progressing well and in line with the target delivery programme. This rock,
Almost a year after the Fairhaven coastal protection project completed, the official ‘opening’ took place on 22 July. VBA, a joint venture between VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and SNC Lavalin’s Atkins business, was awarded the £22m coastal protection project in 2017 by Fylde Council, to provid
The Abu Qir port project in Egypt, undertaken by DEME Group, is moving forward according to schedule. The largest ever dredging and land reclamation contract in DEME’s history includes the reclamation of 1,000 hectares of new land. It also involves deepening of the port’s approach channel to 23m and
A maintenance dredging program in the operating basin near the construction Berth No. 6 at the Port of Makhachkala is now underway. For this project, FSUE Rosmorport’s Makhachkala regional branch deployed its own excavator – with a boom length of 8.2m – and a dredging pump with cutter head to perfor
Rohde Nielsen A/S finished a maintenance dredging project in Gothenburg harbor recently. The project was particularly tricky because a very fine layer had to be removed over a large area in the port. “To do this work, we used Heimdal R and 2 self-propelled barges, Gere R & Freke R, for the areas wit
A contract for the upgrade of Uig Ferry Terminal on the Isle of Skye has been awarded to RJ McLeod (Contractors) Limited. The project will include an extended marshalling area, berthing structure strengthening and widening, dredging, linkspan replacement, approach way repair and widening, a relocate
