McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd said that a major milestone has been reached at the London Gateway Berth 5 expansion works for DP World. The main dredging campaign is now underway, following significant progress across the project, including the new quay wall, permanent anchoring system and backfilling work
DEME Group announced its half-year results for 2026 this morning. Group turnover in the first half of 2026 amounted to 2.2 billion euros, up 2% year-over-year. Offshore Energy revenues increased by 6% to a record semester level of 1.2 billion euros, driven by the continued successful execution of pr
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
Jan De Nul’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Tristão da Cunha kicked off the dredging operations at Georgia’s Anaklia Deep Sea Port Project last week. Another Jan De Nul’s giant TSHD Al-Idrisi will arrive in the area by the end of August. Operating together, the two vessels will perform the d
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
Georgia’s Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Tamar Ioseliani, met with Tim Devolder, Director of the Georgia branch of Jan De Nul, earlier this week. The parties discussed the ongoing construction works of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port. The meeting was held on site at the Anaklia po
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
Construction work on the Marina de Lagos expansion continues to make progress, with one of the most eagerly anticipated milestones now on the horizon: the opening of the new marina basin is scheduled for mid-September. Work on the basin has included the installation of pontoons and related marine fa
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
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
Harwich Haven Authority (HHA) and the dredging and marine services provider, Boskalis Westminster, have announced the formation of a new joint venture company, Suffolk Dredging LLP. The new company is said to bring together HHA’s extensive knowledge of the Haven and Boskalis Westminster’s expertise
The Port System Authority of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas has launched a tender for the dredging works on the Gioia Tauro Port channel, in the northern section of the port. The contract, worth over EUR 2.6 million, is part of the broader EUR 5 million port deepening project, aimed to ensu
Benefiting from the current good weather conditions, offshore works on the Princess Elisabeth Island are steadily progressing – the 17th caisson has been installed in the North Sea. “Each caisson installed brings us closer to completing this pioneering artificial energy island, located 45 km off the
The Misurata Free Zone (MFZ) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges yesterday, strengthening cooperation on port development and logistics. The signing ceremony was attended by H.E. François Dumont, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Libya, alongside a delega
