Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has delivered the second of three dual-fuel hopper dredgers to Dutch maritime company, Van Oord. Named Vox Apolonia, the energy efficient TSHD is equipped with green features and has the
Royal IHC announced today the successful delivery of two cutter suction dredgers to a customer in Vietnam. According to IHC, last month the company handed over two CSDs, an IHC Beaver 70 and an IHC Beaver 45, to Xuan Thien Group at Nam Dinh province. General Manager of Xuan Thien Group, Mr. Nguyen H
Major Argentinian contractor Merco Vial S.A. is about to expend its fleet with a brand new Damen CSD650 cutter suction dredger. The delivery of the CSD650 includes the supply of a matching booster station, enhancing the flexibility of the set-up immensely. The new dredger is a customised stock vesse
Conrad Shipyard has launched the first of two 6,500-cubic-yard-capacity hopper dredges for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation. Following the last week’s launch, the Galveston Island is now undergoing completion works prior to sea trials and delivery to the owners. One of the companies that took p
One of the world’s largest hopper dredgers, Jan De Nul Group’s Galileo Galilei has arrived in Guyana to commence work on the Vreed-en-Hoop development project. According to NRG Holdings Incorporated, the consortium behind the project, arrival of TSHD Galileo Galilei marks the beginning of the reclam
The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance team was busy recently fixing multiple client cargoes for MV Fairplayer in Europe, all destined for Africa. Among the loaded equipment was recently completed hopper dredger Sayonara. The ship, weighing approx. 940 tonnes was previously an inland vessel before it was newly conv
Jan De Nul’s latest addition to the fleet, the new water injection dredger Cosette is almost ready for delivery after successful sea trials in the Netherlands. According to the shipbuilder, Neptune Marine recently conducted sea trials near the shipyard in Aalst with flying colours. Neptune is now pu
Earlier this year, Straatman successfully delivered a 25 ton bow discharge assembly to a client in the United States. The bow discharge installation with an inside diameter of ø762 mm and a maximum working pressure of 20 bar was recently installed on Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation new dredge,
Ahmed Bashir, chairman of one of the largest private dredging company in Bangladesh – the Western Engineering Ltd (WEL) recently took a tour of the Royal IHC Kinderdijk yard. Currently, WEL has a fleet of around 40 cutter suction dredgers, half of which are IHC Beaver dredgers. According to Royal IH
Every year, the KNVTS (Royal Dutch Association of Maritime Technicians) organises the Ship of the Year competition. A prestigious prize awarded to an innovative ship designed and built in the Netherlands. The jury of this award has announced that the SPARTACUS, world’s most powerful cutter suction d
The United Arab Emirates-based shipyard Albwardy Damen has held a keel-laying ceremony for two CSD500 cutter suction dredgers. The ceremony which was organised on November 1, included an offer of a coconut while burning incense – a tradition for every vessel built at Albwardy Damen. As Damen Dredgin
Baggerbedrijf De Boer BV – Dutch Dredging recently revealed a photo of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Mahury operating in the Wadden Sea. The Mahury is performing maintenance dredging of the Wadden Sea channels and ports under the Rijkswaterstaat Projects and Maintenance Program (PPO). T
Jan De Nul Group has successfully finished work on the Matinhos beach renourishment project in Brazil. According to Dieter Dupuis, Project Manager at Jan De Nul, last week – in the presence of the state government of Paraná – Jan De Nul Group concluded the beach enlargement in Matinhos. A stretch of
Royal IHC recently delivered one of its Beaver cutter suction dredgers to a client in Africa. As reported, a multi-specialist construction group, Denys inquired into the possibility of purchasing a Beaver dredger at short notice and IHC didn’t hesitate to make it happen. The Beaver 30 was a perfect
