This morning Royal IHC launched the IHC Beaver® 65DDSP, called OREOLUWA, for the Nigerian customer Oretol Nigeria Ltd. The vessel, which will be delivered in combination with a booster station and discharge pipelines, will now be further outfitted at the quayside of IHC yard in Kinderdijk and it wil
Jan De Nul Group’s newest trailing suction hopper dredgers – SANDERUS, ORTELIUS, TRISTÃO DA CUHNA, AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, and DIOGO CÃO – are the first ships to receive the new notation of Bureau Veritas (BV) that recognizes the performance of ultra-low emission vessels (ULEVs). These JDN vessels ar
Cutter suction dredger Zheng He is about to complete dredging and infilling works for the new Baleares Wharf in Spain, informs the Port of Tarragona. According to the port, the dredger Zheng He is filling the interior of the Baleares Wharf at a good pace. The work is going faster than planned and dr
Curtin Maritime Corp. of Long Beach, California, has just released this beautiful photo of the dredge ‘DB Ironbound’ from the Port of Hueneme deepening project. The dredge is currently working in the approach channel while one of the company’s survey boats collects some fresh hydrographic data. The
Royal IHC’s newly built cutter suction dredger MOHAB MAMEESH has successfully completed its basin trials, the shipbuilder reports. According to IHC, after the basin trials, the newbuild will go out to sea once again, this time for dredging trials. The MOHAB MAMEESH is one of two vessels currently un
FSUE “Rosmorport” Astrakhan branch recently added two more vessels to its dredging fleet, the North-West–503 dredger of the R-36 project and the ShS–74 self-propelled scow of the R-122 project. Due to the reception of these vessels, the dredging fleet of the Astrakhan branch increased up to 6 vessel
Dredging is more than dredging, it’s also about sailing the seven seas and discovering the world seen from the water, Jan De Nul Group said in their recent post. Having this in mind, the company has just released a beautiful photo of their Ultra-Low Emission vessel Diogo Cão in Singapore. What a vie
After the successful launch of CSD ALYARMOUK, the vessel is now undergoing its final commissioning phase, informs Royal IHC. This week IHC has been testing the performance of the dredge pump and upcoming weeks the company will be commissioning the automatic dredging installation. Once these tests ar
Jan De Nul Group new trailing suction hopper dredger Galileo Galilei has successfully passed sea trials in the Yellow Sea. Despite the freezing cold weather with temperatures dropping to minus 26 degrees, the crew of Galileo Galilei successfully completed all the tests. The new vessel was named afte
DEME Group is currently executing several port development dredging projects in the Mediterranean. Recently, the company’s trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Uilenspiegel’ finalised the deepening of the access channel to the Port of Setubal in Portugal. TSHD ‘Uilenspiegel’ was one of three hoppers dep
St. Johns Ship Building, Inc. (SJSB) has completed construction of the first Water Injection Dredger for IHC America. Last year, IHC won a contract to design a water injection dredger (WID) for the North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA). In line with NCSPA’s specifications, the dredger is desi
Following the successful completion of sea trials, Onezhsky Shipyard has delivered self-propelled hopper barge Smelaya to FSUE Rosmorport. According to Rosmorport, the recent trials confirmed the operativeness of equipment, the key performance characteristics, functioning of the automation/navigatio
2020 was characterised by a number of milestone projects, including the historic Elbe deepening and widening project in Germany, informs DEME Group. During the last weeks of the year the company’s newest trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Meuse River’ was deployed. Since joining DEME fleet in June, ‘M
Cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck, the latest addition to the Jan De Nul Group fleet, has successfully completed sea trials off the coast of Poland. JDN’s newest and biggest CSD was launched in August 2017 at the shipyard Uljanik in Croatia. The handover of the Willem van Rubroeck was plann
