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  • Magni R Ends Project in Poole

    29 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    A £1.8 million worth dredging project to replenish the storm damaged beach between Shore Road & Branksome beach has been completed. Works on the project started on Monday, 3rd November, with delivery of pipes for the sinkerline, to be welded on the beach. Sand pumping operation started on 19th November. The trailing hopper dredger Magni R picked up sand […]

  • Siemens Gamesa to maintain DanTysk turbines

    2 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens Gamesa has won a contract to provide turbine maintenance services at the 288 MW DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. In operation since 2015, the DanTysk offshore wind farm comprises 80 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines. The contract, awarded to Siemens Gamesa by DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH, covers the maintenance […]

  • NOC: New Technology for Remotely Mapping Beaches

    6 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Science and industry will now be able to map beaches and sandbanks without getting any feet wet, according to the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). This follows three years of collaborative research resulting in a new commercial licence between NOC and Marlan Maritime Technologies to sell new coastal mapping technology. The depth and pattern of sediment on […]

  • Australia: Officials Invite Bids for Hastings River Dredging

    26 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional Infrastructure and Services Andrew Stoner and Member for Port Macquarie Leslie Williams have announced a tender to improve the navigation of the Town Green Channel on the Hastings River. Mr Stoner said the tender for works included dredging and transferring up to 10,000 cubic metres of marine sand from […]

  • Aarsleff Bags Port of Skagen Development Deal (Denmark)

    11 July 2013

    Today, Per Aarsleff A/S has entered into a contract with Port of Skagen for an extension of the port facilities. The contract which has a value of DKK 226 million will be carried out during the coming 18 months and will be completed during the spring of 2015. The project will be carried out as […]

  • Flushing Bay Dredging to Take Place in October

    3 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Representatives Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, and Grace Meng (D-Queens) yesterday announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will perform maintenance dredging of critical sandbanks in the Flushing Bay Federal Channel beginning this fall.  Dredging of the navigational channel, which is 15 feet deep and extends the length […]

  • Vattenfall issues inter-array cable contract notice for German offshore wind farms

    12 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II Offshore Wind GmbH have issued a contract notice seeking contractors to install inter-array cables for two wind farm projects offshore Germany. The two projects, Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II, are located in the German North Sea, in the N-7.2 and N-6.6 zones. The contract is expected […]

  • The Netherlands Considers Building New Island

    21 December 2012

    The northern Dutch province of Groningen is making plans for creating a new Wadden Island, Dutch newspaper Trouw reported on Thursday. The current Dutch inhabited islands in the Wadden Sea are Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog. The new isle of 500 hectares should arise between the uninhabited island Rottumeroog, the German island of Borkum […]

  • Offshore wind O&M calls in Germany flood tender platforms

    24 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Several tenders for services in the offshore wind sector have been published over the last few days in Germany, including those from two offshore wind farm operators looking for maintenance work on four of their projects. The contract notices from the two German operators – seeking annual wind turbine maintenance and maintenance work on offshore […]

  • Heysham Port Dredging Project Near End

    13 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Tidal and silting issues at Heysham Port, which have led to several sailings being rescheduled this week, will soon be resolved, according to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Peel Ports, which owns Heysham Port and is responsible for maintaining approach channels for all customers, has conducted several weeks of dredging with the vessel Albatross […]

  • Shell, RWE & co move forward with German offshore wind-to-hydrogen project

    26 April 2021
    Technology

    Project partners Shell, RWE, GASCADE, and Gasunie have signed a declaration of intent to further intensify their collaboration on the AquaDuctus project. The AquaDuctus pipeline will transport green hydrogen from the German North Sea directly to the continent. It is part of the AquaVentus initiative, which plans to install 10 GW of electrolysis capacity for […]

  • VIDEO: Development of Riverbanks by TU Delft

    10 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Delft University of Technology has just released a very interesting video about an experiment on how rivers behave, what determines their shape and what is the role of vegetation in the development of riverbanks. The experiment was conducted by Andrés Vargas Luna, PhD Hydraulic Engineering TU Delft. The two principal changes that determine the shape of a […]

  • UAE: Tideland Buoys for Abu Dhabi’s Mussafah Channel

    21 February 2011

    In only 90 days, Tideland Signal Limited has manufactured and supplied a total of 84 polyethylene buoys to guide navigation in the newly-dredged 63.5 km channel, which allows ships of up to 9m draft to reach Abu Dhabi’s expanding Mussafah Industrial City. The channel has been dredged by the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) under […]

  • A Look Back at the Best Interviews of 2019

    1 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular interviews from the past year.   Interview with UniSite COO, Focusing on In-Depth Cooperation with Customers UniSite Group, a Ningbo based company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, took part in some very significant projects all over […]

  • Earlcoate Completes Christchurch Project

    16 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Earlcoate Construction have completed the beach recycling project at Mudeford for Christchurch and East Dorset Council. The contract was carried out in an environmentally-sensitive area and planned accordingly. The main requirement of this coast protection scheme was to dredge and pump ashore approximately 25,000 cubic meters of sand/shingle, transport and spread along several beaches on […]

  • In focus: Recent developments in the energy transition race

    7 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    With the In focus column, Offshore Energy delivers a weekly snapshot containing the most relevant energy transition items.

  • CEDA Issues Information Paper on Ecosystem Services

    12 July 2013

    The latest in the series of information papers issued by the Central Dredging Association (CEDA) is entitled Ecosystem Services and Dredging and Marine Construction. It has been produced by the CEDA Working Group on Ecosystem Services (WGES) under the remit of the Environment Commission (CEC). Members of WEGS are scientists and practitioners with a broad […]

  • Germany starts working on 3.5 GW of new offshore wind areas

    7 October 2022
    Project & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) will soon start preliminary site investigations at three new offshore wind areas in the North Sea. The three sites are planned to be auctioned off in 2026/2027 and could jointly accommodate 3.5 GW of installed capacity. On 4 October, BSH launched a tender for the monitoring of geophysical (seismic) […]

  • Equinor, Ørsted, Boskalis join AquaVentus offshore wind-to-hydrogen project

    3 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Ten new companies have joined the AquaVentus offshore wind-to-hydrogen project, including offshore wind developers Ørsted, Equinor, and WindMW, as well as the offshore construction company Royal Boskalis Westminster. The AquaVentus consortium, which is developing a massive project revolving around green hydrogen production powered by 10 GW of offshore wind installed in the North Sea, now […]

  • Partners apply for ‘Project of Common Interest’ status for AquaDuctus green hydrogen pipeline

    24 January 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    Transmission system operators (TSOs) GASCADE and Fluxys have submitted an application with the European Commission for the AquaDuctus project, a North Sea offshore pipeline for green hydrogen produced using electricity from offshore wind farms, to be declared Project of Common Interest (PCI). AquaDuctus is part of the AquaVentus initiative in Germany which plans to install […]

  • Interview with MTCC CEO: Becoming Regional Player in Dredging and Land Reclamation

    22 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    The Maldives is an independent island nation in the north-central Indian Ocean, which consists of about 1,200 small coral islands and sandbanks (some 200 of which are inhabited). One third of the approximately 450,000 inhabitants live in the capital, Male’ city. While Male’ is relatively developed, the outlying islands require economic and social infrastructure development. […]

  • In focus: In pursuit of carbon-neutrality – the holy grail of energy transition

    30 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    In this week’s edition of our In Focus article, we take a deep dive into the most relevant developments from the energy world targeting emission cuts. In the Fossil Fuels market, oil and gas company Lundin Energy sold what has been described as the world’s first-ever certified carbon neutrally produced oil. The oil was purchased […]

  • USACE’s Dredger Currituck Visits Green Harbor (USA)

    15 June 2011

    Racing through the channel of Green Harbor unsure of the sandbar’s distance below, seeing waves break or the curve of a wave near the… By Mary Jane Hanron (wickedlocal) [mappress] Source: wickedlocal, June 15, 2011

  • GCube Insurance: Offshore wind needs to mitigate supply chain risks

    15 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    While offshore wind has performed strongly during the pandemic, continuing with next to no business interruption, the sector still faces some significant supply chain risks. This is according to an insurance company specialising in renewable energy, one of few businesses with the capability to comprehensively assess the offshore wind industry through this lens. Over the […]

  • USACE Preparing to Build Sandbars (USA)

    17 January 2011

    People recreating on the Missouri River could come upon a startling sight in the next year. They may see workers spraying chemicals, or … By LAUREN DONOVAN (bismarcktribune) [mappress] Source: bismarcktribune, January 17, 2011;