Dragflow SRL, an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment, has delivered a state-of-the-art cable dredge to a client in West Africa. Equipped with a hydraulic pump model HY400 with a capacity of up to 3000 m3/h, the dredge features a user-friendly design that enables operators to navigate its func
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District is finishing up maintenance dredging at the Shrewsbury River, NJ. In collaboration with the Wilmington District, the Hopper Dredge Murden is working around the clock to get the project done. The aim of the dredging work in the Shrewsbury River fede
Dutch Dredging’s trailing suction hopper dredger Elbe has successfully wrapped up the Caribbean dredging campaign in Montserrat. Since late July, TSHD Elbe was busy in Little Bay working on the Montserrat Port Development Project. “On the completion of its dredging duties last weekend TSHD Elbe depa
Last weekend (August 19, 2023) Guyana’s Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha commissioned a new dredge at Little Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara. The new cutter head dredge, a first of its kind for the ministry, was procured by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and will be
Although 2023 has been a year of incredible achievements for IHC Mining, the company yesterday shared another major milestone – commissioning of the new dredge in Brazil. IHC Mining kicked off the year by securing a groundbreaking sale of a state-of-the-art dredger for one of the valued clients in B
UK Dredging (UKD), part of Associated British Ports (ABP), and Damen recently signed a contract for construction of a new state of the art Water Injection Dredger (WID). Last month, UKD officials visited Rotterdam for a tour of Damen’s shipyard, where their new Shoalbuster 2711 WID will be built. Da
Peel Ports Group has welcomed a new energy efficient LNG dredger for the first time as it continues to improve the sustainability of its dredging work. The UK’s second largest port operator used Dutch marine contractor Van Oord’s groundbreaking Vox Apolonia for maintenance dredging of the Port of Li
Introducing alternative fuels into the dredging sector may seem difficult, but it is certainly possible. C-Job Naval Architects is tackling this challenge, the company has created multiple concept designs of dredgers which make use of methanol as a marine fuel. Methanol is an easy switch for vessels
Curtin Maritime, Corp. has captured this beautiful photo of the DB Avalon dredging the Houston Ship Channel. “Beautiful sunrise this morning in Texas, where DB Avalon is dredging the Houston Shipping Channel,” Curtin Maritime said in yesterday’s update. DB Avalon is a market-first, hybrid-powered dr
On the evening of July 20th, Dutch Dredging’s trailing suction hopper dredger Elbe arrived in Montserrat in the Caribbean to kick off dredging operations in the Port Little Bay. Over the next few weeks, TSHD Elbe will dredge approximately 120,000m3 of material and dispose at the approved site approx
This week, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock completed dredging and beachfill operations in the Borough of Stone Harbor. According to the Borough, the Dredge Texas and Booster are now off site and currently located at Cape May Inlet. The123rd Street Beach and Parking Lot are currently closed for demobiliz
Over the years, Boskalis has installed thousands of kilometers of power cable on the seabed to enable the transmission of electricity generated by wind farms at sea to millions of households ashore. But before a power cable can be installed, the subsurface must first be checked to make sure it is fr
Jenkins Marine Ltd has returned to Dover with its dredge CH Horn to complete work started there last Summer. The Port of Dover is currently undergoing development as part of its Western Docks Revival project and Jenkins Marine were tasked with dredging roughly 20,000m3 of silts from the existing Wel
Stone Harbor beach nourishment project is entering the last phase, with just 20 percent of work remaining to be done, according to the city’s officials. The contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock started the work in early July by deploying the cutter suction dredge TEXAS to the project site. After
