Dredge Oregon has launched the 2025 season, keeping Columbia River deep and wide enough for ships. From now until around December, the crew of the Dredge Oregon will perform work that’s crucial to thousands of local businesses and jobs in the region—but is out of sight and mind for most Oregonians.
Damen Shipyards Group in Vietnam hosted recently the steel cutting ceremony for a new Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) 1000 for New Zealand’s Port Otago and Napier Port. The 60-metre long dredger from Damen Port & Maintenance series has a maximum hopper volume of 1,000 m3. It features a bow th
HID Shipyard has successfully launched its latest cutter suction dredger, model CSD4016, marking a significant step into the commissioning and trial phase of this state-of-the-art dredging vessel. The newly launched CSD4016 features a modular design and delivers powerful excavation and slurry transp
Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredger Gateway recently wrapped up a special project off the Dutch coast. On behalf of Allseas, the vessel dredged a pipeline trench for the Porthos CO2 transport and storage project from the Maasmond – the busy waterway that serves as the main entrance to the Port
Waterway Navigation is the U. S Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) earliest Civil Works mission. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had an innovative mission for USACE Dredge MURDEN to help clear critical shoaling that will maintain safe and efficient navigation conditions for military and commercial
Mulzer Family of Companies, one of the largest aggregates producers in the United States, has launched a dredge barge at their Yager Marine facility, KY. This impressive 150’x45’x8’ Crane-Spud barge, designed for dredging operations with an excavator/material handler, will be utilized in the Upper M
Stevens Towing Company has completed the dry docking of Norfolk Dredging’s cutter suction dredge at Yonges Island. The project required the majority of Stevens’ workforce in the shipyard to work two 12-hour shifts and utilized roughly 70 personnel onboard the dredge. From removing the walking spud c
A permanent entrance (the Entrance) to the port of Gippsland Lakes from Bass Strait was completed in 1889. Since its construction, there has been continual ingress of oceanic sand into the Inner Channels. In addition, an offshore bar (the Bar) has formed outside the Entrance. This sand on the Bar cr
China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) recently introduced another remarkable piece of equipment, the cutter suction dredger Junchuan. The CSD Junchuan has a single-unit installed power of 5000 kilowatts—more than three times that of conventional vessels. It can remove up to 1,200 cubic me
The dredging works for the new LNG Terminal at SOHAR Port and Freezone are progressing as planned, on schedule and within budget. This week, the senior management from SOHAR Port and Freezone had the opportunity to join Boskalis on board the trailing suction hopper dredger Willem van Oranje. The gue
Square Port Shipyard, located 250 km south of Mumbai, and Damen Technical Cooperation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the first step of a significant new relationship. It will see the two organizations working together to develop the shipyard with the aim of building a range of high
After almost 6 months of hard work at the Port of Brisbane, the hopper dredge Brisbane is sailing north to support Queensland’s northern ports during the winter months. The next port of call is the Port of Bundaberg where she’ll undertake maintenance dredging to ensure the port’s navigational channe
The Army Corps dredge McFarland has returned from another successful dredging mission. To combat shoaling and maintain a safe and navigable waterway, the dredge McFarland was busy recently dredging near the entrance of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. During her deployment, she dredged more th
Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredger Shoalway has once again proved its unique dredging capabilities with brilliant backfill operation at Borssele. Once installed, cables and pipelines on the seabed need to be protected from the forces of the sea with rocks or sand. This also applied to the exp
