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
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its Engineer Research and Development Center are currently conducting R&D to operationalize technology that separates sand from mud while it’s being transported in the discharge pipeline of an operating hydraulic dredge. The simple placement method from the past
Hansel Marine, a Chinese company involved in the production of dredgers and dredging equipment, successfully delivered a lot of their dredging equipment to Egypt recently. According to their latest announcement, a new set of Hansel HS-55 type of cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) arrived at the King Mar
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
A new section of the River Parrett is to be dredged in the following days, Somerset Rivers Authority reports. Large quantities of silt will be removed from 1.37miles (2.2km) of the river between the village of Moorland and the M5, to increase its capacity to carry flood water. Dredging is due to sta
It’s good to see product innovation taking shape in real life. Last month, Royal IHC production team aligned and welded the adapters to the single-cast body of the new 70CT cutter head currently under construction at their facilities in Kinderdijk. An accurate alignment of the teeth is required to i
The U.S. EPA will hold a virtual public meeting next week, January 13, on the next phase of the decades-long cleanup to remove harmful chemicals from the New Bedford Harbor and its shorelines. The meeting presentation details what the agency accomplished in 2020 and what work it has planned for 2021
The U.S. EPA, U.S. Department of Justice, the Kalamazoo River Natural Resource Trustee Council, and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy have announced entry of a consent decree that requires NCR Corp. to clean up and fund future response actions at a significant portion of th
Arab Potash Company (APC) and Royal IHC successfully launched the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Alyarmouk at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen a/d IJssel today. The custom-built vessel is a 3,557kW CSD and a further developed copy of the dredger Jarash, which IHC delivered to APC in 2018. As part of its long
Residents of Cheptiret/Kipchamo, Kesses Sub-County in Kenya, are set to have a steady supply of water as the desilting of Kerita dam nears completion. Once wrapped up, the dam has the potential of serving approximately 24,000 households for domestic and irrigation purposes. The water will be connect
