WEDA’s next webinar – Innovations in Dredging – will take place on Friday, February 26, 2021, from 11 AM to noon EST. The Innovations in Dredging Webinar will feature two presentations by Aiden Horan, the Vice President Of Engineering & Innovation, J. Cashman, Inc., and Xiuhan Chen, the Vice Presid
Foyle and Marine Dredging Ltd last week took delivery of a Rammer 5011E, Rock Hammer, for use on the dredgers Dinopotes and Aoibheann. This state of the art rock hammer offers the latest in the rock breaking technology with innovative features that prevent damage to the hammer and loss of production
Jan De Nul has just released this amazing photo from their project in Benin. Dredging is like art, said Jan De Nul. The art of shaping water and land. It’s more than dredging. In every project, protecting the biodiversity in the working area is paramount. “We therefore depart to the maximum extent p
Jan De Nul Group’s newest trailing suction hopper dredgers – SANDERUS, ORTELIUS, TRISTÃO DA CUHNA, AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, and DIOGO CÃO – are the first ships to receive the new notation of Bureau Veritas (BV) that recognizes the performance of ultra-low emission vessels (ULEVs). These JDN vessels ar
Royal IHC is actively contributing to the development of autonomy within the maritime industry. This is explained in the latest blog about the development of autonomous trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) by Jeroen van Stappen. In his blog he explains Royal IHC’s aims to create a system that in
HR Wallingford announced recently that their four-day dredging management online course will take place this February. According to the company, this online course will provide an overview of the environmental aspects of dredging, the latest technology and equipment that apply to dredging and the ma
Van Oord’s brand new trailing suction hopper dredger – the Vox Ariane – was successfully launched at Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore today. The vessel is the first of three new hoppers and will boost the mid-class section of Van Oord’s fleet of trailing suction hopper dredgers. This
Royal IHC has just released this amazing video of the CSD Mohab Mameesh undergoing her sea trials near the Dutch coast in the North Sea. During the sea trials, multiple installations have successfully been tested. “Now we are going into the final phase of the building process, finalizing the vessel
Van Oord has launched the Climate Risk Overview, a global online tool that combines multiple data layers and enables users to identify the world’s most-at-risk coastal areas. The tool is in the public domain and anyone can use it. Van Oord unveiled the new tool during the international Climate Adapt
Salt marshes were created on the coast of Delfzijl in the north of the Netherlands in 2018. A section has been used as a trial location for salt marsh development. Researchers from EcoShape studied the salt marsh for two years to learn more about the construction and development of salt marshes. The
HR Wallingford has launched a new virtual dredging management course, adapted from its popular classroom course. Delivered in four-hour tranches over four days in February, it will provide an overview of the environmental aspects of dredging, the latest technology and equipment, and the management o
DEME’s dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ‘Scheldt River’ is currently conducting maintenance dredging operations on the Scheldt and during this work, the vessel is operating on LNG. Last week, the TSHD became the first dredger to be bunkered with LNG in the Port of Antwerp, near the K
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a 5-year long-term service agreement with Nanjing Changjiang Waterway Engineering, a leading Chinese dredging company. The agreement, signed in December 2020, covers the ‘Chang Jing 9’, a 13,800 cubic metre trailing suction dredger and the latest addition to
Titan LNG’s FlexFueler successfully bunkered the hopper dredger Scheldt River, owned by DEME Group, on the Western Scheldt recently. The Netherlands-based maritime LNG bunkering company has received approval from local authorities to bunker ships on the Western Scheldt area to the west of Antwerp, B
