The dredger Hanson Thames, built at Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania, has arrived safely in the UK and is set to enter active service in the new year. “Our new marine aggregates dredger provides increased payload and efficiency and will supply sand and gravel for the UK construction market,” said
System integrator Alewijnse recently won a contract for the complete electrical and automation installation on board the sister vessel of trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Anchorage, which was successfully launched last week at Barkmeijer Shipyards. This innovative hopper dredger (yard No. BN34
GEOTAG Engenharia, a Brazilian hydrographic company that specializes in bathymetric surveys and dredge works monitoring, has selected the ANavS® Multi-Sensor RTK/PPP & Galileo HAS receiver for precise and reliable position, velocity and 3D-attitude (heading, pitch, roll and heave) information. ANavS
Royal Boskalis Westminster has just published a book about the salvage of the Ever Given. In March this year, Boskalis was at the center of worldwide media attention on the salvage of the stranded mega container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal. In collaboration with the Suez Canal Authority, a lar
The times are changing, and so is the dredging industry. Dredging is evolving to ensure it remains sustainable whilst adding value to society, the environment and the economy. With that in mind, the focus for the next World Dredging Congress (WODCON XXIII) will be on exactly how ‘Dredging is Changin
Liebherr has just released this amazing video about their R 954 dredging excavator, working on a dredging project in the Black Sea. By the Black Sea, the engineering unit of Samsun, Turkish port town, uses the Liebherr pontoon excavator to dredge the seabed. Using a boat equipped with a hold that op
Three consortia of maritime companies and knowledge institutions have received a total of 52.9 million from the Maritime R&D subsidy scheme of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Royal IHC is part of two of these consortia: Menens consortium – aimed at developing adaptive solutions to accelerate
The Government of Bangladesh has already bought 38 dredgers and now they are starting a process to buy more than 42, United News of Bangladesh reports. This action is being conducted under the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority’s (BIWTA) plan to save the rivers by reducing and protecting th
Investigations are underway to trial a method of sand nourishment at Maroochydore Beach, Sunshine Coast Council said. The technique, called nearshore nourishment, has not been used on the Sunshine Coast before and involves importing sand from outside the region and placing it in the water, about 300
The dredging and capping operations are officially completed at the Grasse River Superfund site (aka Alcoa Aggregation) in Massena, NY, EPA said. Nearly a quarter million cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been removed from the Grasse River and over 200 a
Straatman BV completed engineering and production of three pinch ball joints earlier this week – all executed in their factory in Zwjjndrecht. These specific type of ball joints will be used on the cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) between floating pipeline and CSD. The great advantage of this ball joi
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Endam is being fitted out with Damen dredging equipment. According to Damen, the gantries and winches are installed, and the Di 900 mm trailing suction pipe – designed to dredge at -30 m – is put into place. The multi-purpose vessel will primarily act as an
ROHR-IDRECO Dredge Systems (Netherlands/USA, Germany, France) has just announced two new cutter suction dredge (CSD) models, the Hawk and Falcon, to its product line-up. Group CEO, Fulco Vrooland Löb, said: “With our roots in the wet mining industry, we have been building electrical dredges for deca
Julong Environment Technology delivered a 4000m3/hr customized dredger HAILINGHUCAI 001 to Jiangsu Communications Construction Group earlier this month. According to Julong, the dredger already started the dredging operations on Hailinghu Lake. When doing soil exploration in the lake, it was discove
