Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 27 – March 5, 2017). New Jan De Nul’s Multipurpose Vessel Hits the Water AVIC Shipyard from Weihai, China, has launched new multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant for Jan De Nul Group. PHOTO: Cons
Work on the Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls scheme is well underway, with piling works at two of the project’s 10 reaches now finished. The project is being carried out by Mackley, working as part of Team Van Oord and on behalf of the Environment Agency, Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, Adur
The Environment Agency is continuing work on the Badsey Brook flood risk management scheme that will reduce flood risk to properties along the Badsey and Bunches Brook in Broadway, Childswickham and Murcot and Aldington to the River Avon. As a condition of the planning application, detailed archaeol
Hamburg Port Authority yesterday released a video named “Creating Space for Container Giants – Last Pile Removed”. The video celebrates completion of the Vorhafen Harbor Basin Deepening project. According to the HPA, the deepening of the Vorhafen entry has improved ship access connection to the cent
Royal IHC and DEME have signed a contract for the design, construction and delivery of the 44,180kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) SPARTACUS. The concept and basic design for this 164 meters long mega cutter was done in close cooperation with DEME, Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam and IHC. CS
In little over three weeks’ time, the second edition of Flood and Coast conference and exhibition will gather key stakeholders from the flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCRM) community in the UK. This year’s conference – sponsored by Van Oord, VBA, CH2M, Aecom, HR Wallingford, Mackley and
Royal IHC has just released a photo of the trailing suction hopper dredger SHANTI SAGAR 17, being built at the company’s Krimpen aan den IJssel shipyard. The vessel is first of two IHC Beagle 8,000m³ TSHDs ordered by Adani Group of India. Earlier this month, at the same shipyard, IHC held a keel lay
The Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme (FAS), led by Leeds City Council in partnership with the Environment Agency, is split into two phases. Phase 1 began in January 2015 and is due to be completed in summer 2017. When complete, it will provide an increased level of protection from flooding from the Ri
A number of projects that will require large scale dredging, including the ones in the Arctic, have been announced in Russia. The announcement was made at the recently held Dredging Conference in Moscow, where participants discussed current issues and challenges in the dredging industry. According t
Royal IHC has completed delivery of the trailing suction hopper dredger DASA I to Dragados Argentinos DASA S.A. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The contract for this standardized TSHD of Easydredge 2700 series was signed with DASA in late 2016. It took only few months for IHC to complete the sale/delive
The Environment Agency today released an update on the Marlow flood alleviation scheme. The Marlow scheme will reduce the impact of flooding to 287 properties during a flood with a 1.33% annual probability of flooding (also known as a 1 in 75 year standard of protection). The design of the scheme in
Works on the Rossall sea defenses are now in the last year of a 4 year construction program, reports the Wyre Council. According to the council, last year was spent constructing the bulk of the project which has the same cross section throughout and hence was relatively quick to construct, including
Since early 2016, Van Oord has been working on one of Taiwan’s largest land reclamation projects, the Port of Kaohsiung expansion scheme. The port, largest and most important in Taiwan, each year welcomes more than 10 million containers, which are transshipped through this port. In the past, the por
A ‘Port Master Plan’ for Cowes, that aims to address harbor and marine stakeholder development issues, is being proposed by Cowes Harbor Commission (CHC) and major stakeholders following extensive consultation. The Commission’s objective proposes the agreement of a: “Port Master Plan that identifies
