Mohamed Abaseery, Surveyor at DEME Group, has just released these beautiful photos from the largest ever dredging and land reclamation project in DEME’s history – the Abu Qir Port in Egypt. According to DEME, this project includes the reclamation of 1,000 hectares of new land. It also involves deepe
Rohde Nielsen’s split hopper dredger Trud R has recently completed a project in Erquy, France. This work was part of the construction of the new St. Brieuc for the client RTE. The project was particularly difficult because of its restricted working area and shallow depths. The works involved various
Nonius Engineering has succeeded in phasing out of imported equipment in the segment of dredging, the company representative Vladimir Khamidulin said. He revealed this info at the conference “Ensuring safe navigation and up-to-date methods of RF IWW operation” held in Khanty-Mansyisk recently. Accor
Birdon’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) “Ballina” is undertaking maintanence dredging works for Parks Victoria at the entrance to Sandringham Marina in Port Phillip Bay. This dredging program is set to ensure safe boating access at key sites within the Port Phillip and Western Port. The works are taki
Living near a body of water has always appealed to many, yet some of these areas may require maintenance operations – such as dredging – to keep up with the ever-changing environment. To achieve this, an amphibious excavator or some other suitable dredging equipment is used to remove the underwater
Construction of a new tunnel that will supply northern Hamburg, Germany, with heat from industrial waste started on August 4. According to Implenia, work kicked off when a large diaphragm wall excavator began the first dredging to construct the tunnel shaft on the south bank of the Elbe. The company
A milestone worth celebrating has been reached in the Afsluitdijk project in the Netherlands, Van Oord announced today. “?????? ???, ??? ???? ?? ??? ??,??? ??????-????? ???? ????????? ?? ??? ????’? ????? ??????? ?????,” said the company. Levvel-blocs, another name for the innovative XblocPlus blocks
Van Oord has just posted a very interesting photo from the Lincolnshire coastal protection work. The project involves beach nourishment across a distance of 20 kilometres and requires around 400,000 cubic metres of sand annually over the four years of the project. “Together with the UK’s Environment
Mr. Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Honorable Minister of State, Ministry of Shipping, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, took the driving seat at his visit yesterday to DSC Dredge’s Reserve, La facility, getting a first hand view of DSC Vision. On his visit he was accompanied by many disti
Neptune Marine has just released these beautiful photos of its recently delivered EuroHopper 400 dredger Sandborn. The EuroHopper range is designed and built to work the toughest environments, undertaking maintenance dredging projects in ports and coastal areas, as well as sand and aggregates extrac
Researchers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have developed dredging optimization models using artificial intelligence and operations research methods to help prioritize and schedule dredging operations across the enterprise. Dredging is the largest individual item in the USACE civil wo
USACE Portland District has just released this amazing photo of the dredger Essayons, taken on the Columbia River halfway between Longview and Astoria. On any given day during the dredge season, the Essayons’ crew is working specific areas that were surveyed, mapped and found to be in need of dredgi
South Port has contracted Heron Construction Company Ltd to remove fractured or fragmented rock that remains in the Port entrance channel from previous dredging campaigns. The work will be carried out under an existing coastal permit already issued by Environment Southland under the Resource Managem
HELION Hydrogen Power high-power fuel cell manufacturer has received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas for its FC-RACKTM Marine version, a zero-emission hydrogen powered electric generator dedicated to maritime applications. The AiP is the result of a close collaboration between HELION and B
