New split-hull dredging vessel Omvac Catorce was successfully launched last week. In March 2021, Nodosa – Spain’s most experienced shipbuilder of split-hull dredgers – closed the contract for the construction of the fourth dredger of this type in recent years. This is the third dredger of this type
Qingzhou Golden Julong Equipment Manufacturing (a brother company of Qingzhou Julong Environment Technology) has delivered a second cutter suction dredger to the Bunati Port Authority (BPA), Indonesia. According to the Chinese dredger builder, BPA bought one CSD450 model cutter suction dredger BUNAT
A pond improvement project at Hillview Recreation Area, just west of Hinton, IA, is moving forward. Plymouth County Conservation has just released this beautiful photo from this very important cleanup program. Plymouth County County Engineer, Tom Rohe, said that no recreational activities, including
HID Shipyard, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, handed over the new tin ore mining dredger Lucky Star 168 to an Indonesian client earlier this month. The vessel is 95m long and has a working weight of 1300t. At the ceremony in the Yangkou Port, Jiangsu Province, HID Company’
More than 20,000 tonnes of rock armour boulders for strengthened sea defences are being unloaded at the Port of Sunderland. They have been shipped from Norway on the Stema Barge II and are now being unloaded at Greenwells Quay. The boulders are for a continuing programme of works to help protect the
The Damen CSD500 Yantra is currently at work on the Danube River, doing continuous maintenance dredging operations. The dredger is deepening the river to the locally required inland transport water depth of -3m. The vessel’s home port is Ruse, Bulgaria, where the CSD is part of the fleet of the Exec
The reinforcement works on the Broad Green Dike project are in full swing now, Van Oord reports. Jos van Uden, Project Manager at Van Oord, is one of the key leaders of this project. Commenting the latest news, he said: “??? ????? ?????? ???? ?? ??? ????? ?? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??? […]
USACE Detroit District awarded a contract for dredging at Duluth-Superior Harbor in western Lake Superior on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, to begin early August. The $2.72 million contract is awarded to Roen Salvage Co., from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The contract is to mechanically dredge about 76
Trimble Civil Construction has just introduced the latest release of Trimble Marine Construction (TMC) Software which includes the new user interface for configuration of Excavator and Cutter Suction Dredge machines. The modernized UI helps streamline configuration of these machine types for marine
Rohde Nielsen has just released these amazing photos from the Fremantle Port Beach Sand Nourishment Program, Australia. The project will combat coastal erosion by depositing thousands of cubic metres of sand at Fremantle’s Port Beach. The work is being delivered as a partnership project by the City
Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vox Ariane has been spotted in the Dutch water. “Vox Ariane is our latest edition to the fleet. In this picture you can see her performing dredging trials at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam,” said Van Oord. Recently delivered by Keppel Offshore & Marine,
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District’s Dredge Potter got underway last week from the St. Louis District’s Service base where it started it’s 90th dredging season. Carrying out the District’s mission of maintaining a nine-foot deep, 300-foot wide channel on 300 miles of the Mississippi
Raytheon Anschütz, a business of Raytheon Technologies, has delivered an integrated bridge system (IBS) to Van Oord’s new dredger Vox Ariane. The IBS includes multifunctional workstations, navigational radars, a redundant, maintenance-free gyrocompass system and a highly precise auto- and track-pilo
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV has just introduced a five-tonne battery-powered excavator. “As well as zero exhaust emissions, the first Hitachi-branded model in this class delivers lower noise levels, enhanced efficiency, exceptional performance in confined spaces, and fewer maintenance
