Dredging International, a major operating company of DEME Group, recently secured work in Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. According to the Maritime Union of Australia – WA branch, the hopper dredger Nile River is expected to undertake this project sometime in September. It i
APCL A&P Tyne recently completed a successful pipe fabrication and installation project onboard UKD Marlin, a trailing suction hopper dredger operated by UK Dredging. Designed to work in both open sea and estuarial environments, the UKD Marlin is also capable of operating in confined locations such
Van Oord dredger Vox Alexia is dredging the seabed in the Bay of Gdańsk where Poland’s first floating LNG terminal will be built by GAZ-SYSTEM. The dredging, one of the most important stages of the project, has been divided into four phases. The first involves dredging the section of the seabed wher
The City of Virginia Beach and the Army Corps of Engineers have begun maintenance dredging operations on the Rudee Inlet. As the City reported earlier this week, dredge Merritt started dredging on July 28 and will be staying longer at Rudee Inlet for five (5) days of dredging, departing August 2nd.
Next-Generation dredging vessel, built by Yutek Gemi Shipyard for the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, has been successfully completed and commissioned in Turkey. Classed in accordance with Türk Loydu rules and equipped with advanced technology, the 79-meter-long and 15-meter-wide vessel na
Holland Dredge Design has successfully delivered a custom-built cutter suction dredger CSD-250 to Cemex UK. The new dredger was fully engineered and built in-house in record time, according to Cemex’s specific operational and safety requirements. Key features: With the cutter power of 40kW and a dre
Earlier this month, Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredger Crestway jumped in to help a port in need in Mexico. While the vessel crew was dredging in the Port of Tuxpan, an urgent request came in from the Port of Tampico, only 90 nautical miles away. The Port of Tampico was shut down due to sever
Royal IHC recently won a contract to supply another Beaver cutter suction dredger and a Booster Station to a customer in the APAC region. The Beaver and Booster Station will be deployed to maintain the access channel to a harbor – ensuring safe navigation for recreational boaters and commercial fish
Dockyard and Engineering Works (DEW) has successfully launched its newly built Cutter Suction Dredger 400, developed with the engineering expertise and component support of Dredge Yard B.V., based in the Netherlands. The new dredger is equipped with a Mitsubishi engine, a hydraulic cutter head drive
Bakker Sliedrecht, together with Jan De Nul and RINA classification society, have successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) of the DC-grid switchboard for JDN’s first plug-in hybrid trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). Just a year ago, Bakker Sliedrecht secured a deal to deliver th
Damen is about to launch another cutter suction dredger from the CSD650 series in Azerbaijan. The latest CSD, built at the Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands, has been transported to Baku Shipyard LLC for reassembly and delivery to a local client. Baku Shipyard is the perfect location for this t
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge MERRITT, deployed from the Wilmington District, is currently operating in the Ocean City Inlet. Using a side-casting method, the dredge drags along the bottom, picking up sand and ejecting it about 90 feet outside the navigation channel. The emergency operatio
The first of Kenmare’s two new high-capacity dredges has landed safely on the beach near Moma Mine. The new electric Cutter Suction Dredges – each measuring 62 meters in length and weighing nearly 1,000 tons – started their journey from Royal IHC yard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, in early June. T
McQuade Marine’s dredge Port Frederick is back in water and operational – after completing her annual maintenance at The Yard Brisbane (TYB) shiprepair facility. She came into TYB for periodic maintenance, which included a pressure wash, anti-foul repairs to Aquamaster thrusters, and some minor corr
