Dredge Yard has just introduced a pair of their latest Drag Heads DN1100. “Engineered to withstand abrasive conditions with strength, precision, and reliability, it is built to deliver efficient performance from the very first contact with the seabed,” the company said. Dredge Yard manufactures heav
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
Near Ghent, Jan De Nul is renovating a drinking water reservoir with a capacity of 6.4 billion liters. The company is carrying out this project on behalf of De Watergroep, together with its partners Aertssen Group, DEME Group and Boskalis. After 50 years, the reservoir needed a thorough renovation.
When maintaining a port or waterway, the dredged material – sand, clay or silt – is often transported to a designated location outside the port area. In some cases, the dredged material can be given a second life nearby. This is the case in Harwich, United Kingdom. During port maintenance using Bosk
Knoop BV said that their latest dredging project in Tynaarlo, a municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands, is in full swing. “Our Waterking WK 350, equipped with a Damen DOP 200 dredge pump, is now fully operational on site. The pipeline system is in place, gravel is being pumped ashore, and the
Last week, Jan De Nul took an important step in the restoration of oyster reefs in the Belgian North Sea – on the seabed of a protected marine area, they placed 2,000 stones, inoculated with a total of 400,000 young, hatchery-grown oysters. “With this intervention, we are directly contributing to th
Damen Dredging has delivered a state-of-the-art cutter suction dredger (CSD) simulator to BIWTA in Bangladesh. The CSD sim has been installed in the BIWTA ’Dredge Training Centre’, and offers an immersive experience due to the three 75”screens and the real operators chair. According to Damen, “the t
DEME Group has achieved a major milestone with Femern Link Contractors (FLC): the first tunnel element, measuring 217 meters in length and weighing 73,000 tons, has been successfully immersed, installed in the tunnel trench and connected to the Danish portal at Rødbyhavn. Transported earlier from th
The ongoing collaboration between Process Flow Intelligence (PFI) and Krohne France took a step forward recently, through the commissioning of an i-Flow Density Meter aboard the Gambe d’Amfard, a hopper dredger operated by HAROPA PORT|Le Havre, France. The Gambe d’Amfard, owned by GIE Dragages-Ports
Rotterdam Maritime Capital of Europe has just released a very interesting video named ‘ZedHub: accelerating zero-emission dredging through collaboration’. ZedHub brings together industry players to accelerate zero-emission dredging. By combining the expertise of companies such as Boskalis, Van Oord,
The Port of Esbjerg, in collaboration with ECOncrete, is integrating port-dredged clay in the production of Coastalock armor units for coastal protection and biodiversity enhancement. By replacing a significant portion of the cement in the concrete mix, the Port is lowering the carbon footprint of t
The sweep dredging vessel Pieter Coecke sprang into action last week, after an oil spill occurred in the Deurganckdock, Belgium, where a ship’s hull was damaged during bunkering operations. According to Jan De Nul, their vessel was deployed immediately and has been working around the clock to contai
Ecocoast will host a free technical webinar on April 22, 2026 – Earth Day – introducing the Ecobarrier Silt Curtain Green, a next-generation turbidity control solution engineered entirely without EPS or foam. Traditional silt curtains rely on expanded polystyrene (EPS) and foam floatation systems th
The Eastern Scheldt barrier has been protecting a large part of the province Zeeland from high water for over 40 years. As the storm surge barrier is in need of major replacements and renovations after decades of use, Deltares carried out extensive scale model tests in 2024 and 2025 on behalf of Rij
