Rotterdam Kicks Off Yukonhaven Dredging The Port of Rotterdam Authority has started dredging the Yukonhaven on Maasvlakte 2. The dredging work will prepare the port for Gate terminal’s new LNG breakbulk infrastructure. Van Oord’s Dredger Arrives in Damietta Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredg
IHC Services has secured an order for a substantial renovation project for a vessel owned by Huta Marine Works Ltd in Saudi Arabia. Work on the HUTA 14 self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) will be carried out by IHC Middle East based in Dubai, and the Service Operations department in the Neth
One of the world’s largest suction hopper dredger, Jan de Nul’s Leiv Eiriksson, was successfully dry-docked at Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) recently. Capable of dredging up to a depth of 155m, the 78,000dwt vessel has a 46,000m3 hopper capacity and a total trailing pump power of 13,000kW
DEME reported another particularly active first half-year in 2015. A net profit of 119.8 million euros (1H14: 62.6 million euros) was realized on an (economic) turnover of 1,218.7 million euros. Besides the many ongoing projects on all continents, several largescale projects in Australia (Wheatstone
Bakker Sliedrecht has won a contract to upgrade obsolete inverter units, both the cutter and the winches, on board the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) cutter dredger Umm al Anbar in Abu Dhabi. A team of Bakker’s engineers will use their knowledge and expertise from previous dredging projects
DEME at New Suez Opening On Thursday, 6 August,2015, the Dredging International (75%) and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (25%) consortium participated in the opening festivities of the modernized Suez Canal in Egypt. VIDEO: New Canal – Icon of the Future Records were broken, vessels […]
As the largest customer of the Suez Canal with more than 1,400 transits in 2014, the Maersk Group has welcomed the expansion of the Suez Canal and the advantages it entails. Egypt has all through the 20th and 21st century acted as the bridge between Europe and Asia thereby enabling global trade and
Records were broken, vessels were mobilized from every corner of the globe, and work was carried out non-stop. The construction of the new Suez Canal in Egypt was like a rollercoaster ride, said Van Oord. The new Suez Canal has been completed in record time thanks to several consortia from the globa
A contract has been signed with the Tianjin Dredging Company, part of the China Communication Construction Company (CCCC) and the recently founded Dredging Group, under which Wartsila will supply the engines and all essential ancillaries for a new self-propelled cutter dredger. The vessel will be on
Panama Canal Expansion – June 2015 (VIDEO) A new video has just been released on the Panama Canal Expansion Program, the largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction. Long-Term Dredging Deal for DEME Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. (OTML) has awarded to Dredging International, mem
Dredge Yard, a company dedicated to the market of dredge equipment and dredging technology, and Dutch-based Neptune Shipyards, in order to develop innovative products and exploit operational synergies, have just introduced EURO DREDGER 450. This piece of dredging equipment is the first in a series o
The developments at Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) in 2015 to date have been positive and in line with the company’s expectations. Reported revenue increased compared to the same period in 2014. Revenue was stable when adjusted for acquisitions, divestments and currency effects. In the c
An Italian dredger builder Italdraghe and its consortium partner CPN Srl are currently building three dredgers for the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources. Following contract signing, work is already well underway on one Italdraghe SGT 400 D and two Italdraghe SGT 300 RB diesel cutter suction dredgers
Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, has just published its annual report 2014. The annual report 2014 looks back on an exceptional year, according to CEO Pieter Van Oord: “The year was special because for the first time in our history, our turnove
