Van den Herik’s new trailing suction hopper dredger, Charlock, has successfully performed the dredging trials on the Wadden Sea and is now ready for its first job. The vessel’s first assignment will include the coastal replenishment operations on the Dutch coast near Bloemendaal Zandvoort. The namin
DEME has just released a video about another project in Lagos, the Ilubirin Lagos Lagoon Islands Project, for which the company was awarded the dredging and reclamation contract. Dredging International Services Nigeria Ltd (DISN), a full subsidiary of DEME, carried out the phase one of Ilubirin recl
Jiangsu Haihong Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. has ordered 4×MAN 32/40 engines in connection with an order for 2×8,000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredgers. The scope of delivery covers two ship-sets, with each including a propulsion package consisting of 2×9L32/40 engines, an MAN Alpha twin-screw
A new Moray Council’s dredging vessel, called Selkie, is expected to begin sea trials later this week. The £2.4 million vessel, built by Macduff Shipyard Ltd, will be the only dredger in Scotland operated by a local council. It will service the council-owned harbors at Buckie, Burghead, Hopeman, Fin
Dutch-based Shipyard Constructions Hoogezand Nieuwbouw (SCHN) last week held a launching ceremony for LNG-powered hopper barge “greenports 1”. The vessel, presumably the first working vessel at a European seaport to be powered by eco-friendly LNG, was launched at SCHN yard in Foxhol, Groningen, on T
Wasa Dredging, a Finnish dredging equipment manufacturer and contractor, has just announced two important milestones. The company recently locked down the Rauma Fairway and Harbor dredging project. According to Wasa Dredging, this huge scheme is scheduled to last over 2 years. The project will invol
Royal IHC has released a time-lapse video made by IHC service engineers during a customer visit in Germany. The video shows the IHC built trailing suction hopper dredger, Amazone, dredging in the port of Hamburg. A trailing suction hopper dredger is a sea-going vessel that can suck up sand from the
Bakker Sliedrecht – designer and producer of electric machines and equipment – is now part of the mega-project to build the world’s largest cutter suction dredger for Jan De Nul Group. The company has been involved in this project from the very beginning, brainstorming with Jan De Nul about the elec
Workers of the Spanish shipbuilder LaNaval in Bilbao, Spain, held recently a keel-laying ceremony for the first of two trailing suction hopper dredgers under construction for Van Oord. Ms Carmen de la Barrera, Van Oord’s Quality Control inspector at the LaNaval yard, performed the ceremony. Undernea
The Cutter Suction Dredger Vessel Directory – a unique tool that will provide the industry with a compact useful overview of operating cutter suction dredgers – will be presented today at 12:15 at the World Water Works event in Antwerp, after a minute of silence for the victims of the Brussels attac
Royal IHC recently launched two Delta Multi Craft (DMC) 1900 workboats for Huta Marine Works from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The launch of the Huta 518 and Huta 519 took place at the ship lift in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. Like all Delta Multi Craft workboats, the DMC 1900 is a compact, multi-pu
National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) and Royal IHC – the two companies specialized in dredging, mining and marine construction – have signed a contract for the construction of a new state-of-the-art Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger. The contract was signed on Wednesday, March 9 2016, at NMDC headq
Gemak Group, a ship repair and ship building group from Turkey, has been awarded in September 2015 by Jan De Nul Group to undertake the middle life refit project of their cutter suction dredger “Leonardo Da Vinci”. The scope of the project included removal of 1200 tons cutter ladder from the vessel,
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (March 7-13). Ravestein Builds World’s Largest Backhoe for Boskalis The new backhoe dredger Magnor, currently being built for Boskalis by Ravestein, will be the largest and most efficient backhoe dredger in the wo
