The Dredge Potter, built in 1932, left the St. Louis service base dock last week headed to Grafton, Illinois to begin its dredging season. A crew of 53 highly-skilled employees from USACE St. Louis District staff the dustpan dredge that is capable of filling an Olympic sized swimming pool every hour
Jan De Nul Group and Goa Shipyard Limited have signed a contract for the construction of a next generation trailing suction hopper dredger. The new dredger is a plug-in hybrid specifically designed to operate in small harbors. With its 79 meters hull length and a hopper capacity of 2000 cubic meter,
Damen Shipyards recently presented the first type of the next generation of Cutter Suction Dredgers – the CSD600. The new series builds on the success of the old, with significant lessons learned, and faces the future with improved safety, sustainability and efficiency. The CSD600 is capable of dred
Royal IHC has made another successful delivery of Cutter Suction Dredgers to a client in India. According to IHC, two of the Beaver 50 Cutter Suction Dredgers have just docked in India and are ready to push local port development. “These powerful machines are set to make waves as they tackle challen
Holland Shipyards Group has just shared an exciting announcement: the successful conversion of an inland vessel into a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger. The dredger, named ‘Taruma’ started her journey as a standard inland vessel. Holland Shipyards engineered and installed advanced dredging equipment,
To reduce CO2, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate emissions for maintenance dredging along the Dutch coast, Royal IHC is working with Rijkswaterstaat to develop a fully sustainable dredger: the H2-Hopper. This unique TSHD is powered by green hydrogen, has no emissions and is minimised in its ener
Baggerbedrijf De Boer B.V. – Dutch Dredging has once again chosen Royal IHC as a solid partner for the construction of a custom-built Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) with a hopper capacity of 2,300m³. The newbuild is an upgraded version of the LESSE, which Royal IHC delivered to Dutch Dredgin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently welcomed the government dredge MURDEN to New England. According to the Corps, MURDEN began dredging on May 30th at Green Harbor in Marshfield, MA, and is currently dredging at Great Salt Pond in Block Island, RI. Green Harbor in Marshfield is situated in the
Last week, HID Dredging successfully delivered another 18-inch cutter suction dredger 500 to a customer in China. This impressive dredger boasts a flow capacity of 4000m3/h, a 14-meter dredging depth, discharge distance capability of up to 1500m, and is equipped with a spud carriage and anchor boom.
Earlier this week, Dutch shipbuilder Neptune Marine launched their first in-house designed diesel – ELECTRIC dredger Emerald Duchess for PD Ports. The 2.000m3 TSHD has been designed and built to an exacting specification to ensure it can carry out its tasks on the Tees to the highest environmental a
DSC Dredge has secured a major contract with the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) to supply four custom 24” cutter suction dredgers. While DSC Dredge has been supplying cutter suction dredges to private companies in Bangladesh since 2010, this is the first public sector contract t
The hopper dredge M/V WHEELER, pictured here sailing on the Mississippi River, is the largest hopper dredge in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Wheeler’s main purpose is to remove shoaling from the bottom of navigation channels and maintain reliable channel depth for deep draft navigation. The
The commander of the Army Corps Task Force Virgin Islands Puerto Rico, Col. Charles Decker recently hosted a visit to Avalon, the largest and one of the most efficient dredging machines in North America. The visit focused on future operations and coordination of Avalon during its operations at the S
Jenkins Marine Multicat ‘Wind Lass’ and self-propelled spud leg pontoon ‘Doreen Dorward’, accompanied by deck pontoon barge ‘JML5014’, have been doing some hard work this spring on the River Severn in Wales. There, the vessels are assisting in the installation of a new waste water outfall, which is
