According to al.com, BAE Systems Southeast Shipyard Alabama LLC in Mobile has held a keel-laying ceremony for the second of two dump scows being built for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. Employees and executives from the company gathered at the foot of the 98 ton keel block as long-time shipyard emplo
IMS Divison of LWT, LLC reports strong global expansion in Asia, Africa, and Latin America for 2012 going into 2013. “Our reputation is growing fast globally and our clientele is confident in our documented successes with governments and private contractors,” says Ryan Horton, IMS Global Sales Direc
Lady sponsor Annemie van der Ven- Scheeren, who named the ‘Coastal Voyager’ of Acta Marine in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on 28th February, has not taken her task lightly. The spouse of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Acta Marine not only wished vessel and crew well, but also held a marvell
From June 10 through 21, 2013, TID’s annual Beaver Engineer Training will take place at TID’s training facilities in the Netherlands. This two-week training programme is aimed at (future) crew of IHC Beaver dredgers, IHC Merwede’s range of durable and highly efficient standardised cutter dredgers of
According to Carlos Isidoro, the director for Transport and Communications of Sofala province, the Macuti ocean dredger is expected to arrive at the port of Beira at the end of the first half of 2013. This dredger, built in Lithuania by Western Baltija Shipbuilding, will ensure a depth of at least 8
One of the Dredge & Marine Company, LLC dredge designers, Eric Lynch, has created an animation of the typical operation for a standard dredge in the “Sandpiper Series” line of cutter suction dredges. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. All n
Ackermans & van Haaren: Annual Results 2012 (Belgium) The board of directors of Ackermans & van Haaren NV announces that the consolidated net result (group share) for the year 2012 amounts to 167.5 million euros (compared to 177.5 million euros in 2011). Nigeria: Eko Atlantic Celebrates Land Recla
Dredgers factory ”VVV-Spetstekhnika” (Ukraine, Kherson) has opened the representative office in Nigeria and Ghana. At the moment, the construction of the dredger HCC 2000/63 is coming to an end. This dredger will be sent to African customers. Dredger is equipped with cutterhead and able to extract s
Damen RoRo Deep Dredge system is a flexible dredging installation for deepwater offshore operation that can be mounted on various vessels. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. Separation of dredging and transport lowers operating costs and in
Nigeria: Sand Dredger Killed in Lagos Explosion An explosion under the Festac Link Bridge yesterday killed one person and left another seriously injured. Nigeria: Lagos Police Arrests Suspect for Explosion The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man in connection with the explosion which occ
The IMS Model 7012 HP Versi-Dredge can excavate sand and sediments down to a depth of 9.1m (30 ft.) and pump it either through a conventional discharge line or through the IMS Broadcaster Discharge Attachment. The video below shows a 7012 HP Versi-Dredge (2013 Model) in Southeast Asia using the Broa
This video shows the new state of the art dredging software used by the backhoe dredger PAT M. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. Amazing fast 3D graphics and perfect control, remote access and viewing from the office via the internet. [map
The Dutra Museum of Dredging is a private collection of materials representing the history of sidedraft clamshell dredging in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the role the Dutra family and Dutra companies have played in building the Delta infrastructure. The collection, unique in its scope and s
On December 26th, the delivery ceremony of 10000m³ self-propulsion trailing suction hopper dredger “New Sea Tiger 8” was held in Changxing branch. On the basis of accomplishing grab bucket and cutter suction dredger, this was the first time for ZPMC to undertake large-scale trailing suction hopper d
