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  • Preparing CSD Willem van Rubroeck for its first job

    9 April 2021
    Equipment

    The brand new dredger Willem van Rubroeck of Jan De Nul Group is being prepared for its first job. Bakker Sliedrecht delivered and installed the electrical machinery package, including the propulsion drives and Alarm Monitoring System BIMAC. Watch the project video they created together with Jan de Nul. In the video, Boris Hoks of Bakker […]

  • Royal IHC hands over the world’s largest CSD to DEME

    4 August 2021
    Technology

    DEME has taken delivery of its giant new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus from Dutch shipyard Royal IHC. According to DEME, the Spartacus sets a new benchmark in the global dredging market – this is the world’s largest and most powerful self-propelled cutter suction dredger and the first able to run on liquefied natural gas […]

  • New Damen CSD350 begins its journey

    22 November 2021
    Technology

    New Damen’s cutter suction dredger CSD350 is on its way to Brazil. This new cutter suction dredger is a sister vessel to the dredger Amsterdam that was delivered to the Brazilian company Construtora Vale Verde in 2019. The Holanda is a fully dismountable, stationary dredger fitted out for one-man operation and will join Amsterdam to work in […]

  • Vox Amalia’s first assignments outside the Netherlands

    19 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    The Vox Amalia, Van Oord’s latest arrival in the fleet, has successfully completed its first dredging assignments outside the Netherlands. In June, the energy-efficient trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) set course for Turkey. In Akkuyu, the vessel dredged about 250,000 cubic meters of material. This campaign was carried out as part of the preparation works […]

  • Interview: The Marine Group is on the rise

    10 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    The Marine & Property Group Ltd provides water injection dredging, marina berthing, drystack, boatyard services and commercial property for the benefit of both marine leisure and marine commercial customers. The company headquarters are based in Cardiff with additional facilities in Swansea, Burry Port, Aberystwyth and Port Dinorwic. In order to better introduce their areas of […]

  • ABB, Van Oord: Continuous improvements in sustainability

    23 March 2021
    Technology

    Van Oord has signed a three-year agreement with ABB Turbocharging to provide fleetwide maintenance and optimization services. The agreement comes as two Van Oord vessels receive the first turbocharger upgrades of their kind in the dredger sector, saving thousands of tons in fuel and carbon emissions over the next decade. The service agreement, which marks […]

  • Jan De Nul chooses Alewijnse

    10 March 2021
    Equipment

    Jan De Nul Group has awarded Alewijnse a contract for the renewal of all dredging process automation systems on board four of JDN’s trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). “The main reason for choosing Alewijnse was the confidence in its automation specialism and its 24/7 service support,” said Jan De Nul. Under the contract, on board […]

  • The Coastal Crown hits the water

    26 April 2021
    Equipment

    A launching ceremony of the Coastal Crown, the most sustainable workboat in the market, took place two days ago at the Bijlsma Wartena shipyard in the Netherlands. The 36-meter-long vessel, the newest addition to Acta Marine’s fleet, is an ultra-shallow draft Multicat-type, equipped with Tier III engines to lower NOx emissions. According to Acta Marine, […]

  • Ashtabula dredged material deal for GLDD

    29 March 2021
    Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has awarded a $6.5 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) for the construction of a beneficial use of dredged material placement area designed to handle approximately 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material. The contractor has been given the approval to immediately start construction […]

  • Newly signed bill creates ‘Gulf Coast Protection District’

    6 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 1160 into law which will create a Gulf Coast Protection District. This district will be authorized to receive and issue funds for future coastal projects identified in the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study. The “Coastal Texas Study,” as it is commonly called, is a 6-year, […]

  • PERS certificate highlights North Sea Port’s ambition

    25 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    North Sea Port was presented recently with the PERS certificate by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO). This means that North Sea Port joins a select club of ports entitled to carry the label for sustainable environmental management. But achieving that quality mark is not an end in itself, they said. North Sea Port is […]

  • ROHR-IDRECO: Moving into the future with continuous innovation

    24 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    ROHR-IDRECO ended last year with the successful launch of the cutter wheel suction dredger, built for Colombian gold mining specialist Mineros Aluvial – the largest they have built to date. Many were involved in the final assembly and launching of this 53-meter long, 255-ton dredger. Equipped with the proprietary iPump and a max digging depth […]

  • Revitalising the Riviera of Senegal

    3 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    Saly in Senegal used to be one of the most popular touristic hotspots of this West African country. Unfortunately, the coastal community suffered from rising sea levels and other negative effects of accelerated climate change. To revitalise Saly’s fragile local economy and prevent flood damage, the World Bank financed a coastal protection scheme. Van Oord […]

  • Siport21, Jan De Nul: Improving Buenaventura access channel

    31 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    Siport21 engineers, in collaboration with the dredging company Jan de Nul, have presented the studies for improving the access channel of Port of Buenaventura, Colombia. On Jan de Nul request, Siport21 has carried out ship manoeuvring simulation studies to assess and optimize the basic design of the port’s access channel. Nowadays, the access of the […]

  • GLDD to pay $3 million for oil spill

    17 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    The largest dredging company in the U.S. pleaded guilty earlier this week to federal charges for causing a 2016 oil spill while rebuilding one of Louisiana’s barrier islands. United States Attorney, Duane A. Evans, has announced that Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) pled guilty on June 15, 2021 to violating the Clean Water Act in connection with […]

  • Interview with Luca Sittoni: Dredged sediment is the new gold

    11 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Sustainability means acting in a way that is not harmful to the planet, preserving natural resources, and thus supporting long-term ecological balance. By adhering to principles of sustainability for dredging and dredged material management by using natural systems to integrate these actions, the dredging industry believes that the goals of environmental quality and economic prosperity […]

  • Jan De Nul restores Ostend beaches

    23 February 2021
    Infrastructure

    First part of Jan De Nul’s 100% sustainable beach replenishment work along the Belgian coast has been completed ahead of schedule. “Our Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing on biofuel, successfully restored the beaches of Ostend. We’ve moved up north today, to Knokke where we started the reclamation of 900,000 m³ to restore the eroded beaches,” Jan […]

  • Boskalis announces new investments in dredging fleet

    31 March 2022
    Research & Development, Technology

    Royal Boskalis Westminster, a Papendrecht based company operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors, is making new capital investments in its fleet – centered around strengthening their position in the large and jumbo hopper segment. Under the plan, Boskalis will modify and lengthen two large trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) this year. The […]

  • Rohde Nielsen introduces environmentally friendly TSHDs

    19 April 2021
    Technology

    Rohde Nielsen A/S is introducing new dredgers Ask R and Embla R into the dredging market. According to the Copenhagen based company, these are probably the most innovative and environmentally friendly split trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) ever built. The 2700 m3 hybrid dredgers are diesel electric and equipped with powerful battery packages of 600 kW […]

  • Restoring estuarine and coastal habitats with dredged material

    9 November 2021
    Research & Development

    The Environment Agency together with ABPmer and Cefas have recently published a practical guide for beneficial use of dredged sediment for estuarine and coastal habitat restoration. The ecological, societal, and economic benefits of estuarine and coastal habitats, and the threats they face from a changing climate and rising seas, have become more widely recognised over […]

  • Damen CSD450 Zephir proves success in Russian Arctic region

    16 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    Despite a very tight schedule and the extremely remote location, a customised Damen cutter suction dredger 450 has been delivered to the Russian Arctic region on time. The contract for the CSD450, named Zephir, was signed in December 2020. According to Damen, the standard stock dredger had to be adapted to the particular Russian circumstances in […]

  • Restoring Chesapeake Bay with living shorelines

    26 July 2021
    Infrastructure

    The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has received a $1 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to expand the implementation of living shorelines in Rural Coastal Virginia to reduce coastal erosion and benefit water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. The grant was awarded by NFWF and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]

  • Tackling freight mobility challenges at Port of Coos Bay

    9 August 2020
    Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    A maintenance dredging project in the Coos Bay harbor from River Miles twelve to fifteen, aimed to remove approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of material from these areas, is currently underway. Dredging in this section of the Federal Navigation Channel was also conducted throughout the summer of 2019. This area of the Upper Bay spans from the […]

  • Expanding Princess Amalia Harbor’s quay facilities

    22 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    The Port of Rotterdam Authority has awarded the construction of around 2.4 kilometers of quays and earth-retaining walls in the Princess Amalia Harbor to the HOCHTIEF, Ballast Nedam and Van Oord consortium. The construction of the quays marks the start of the further development of the harbor located on Maasvlakte II. The development will increase […]

  • VIDEO: Exploration of climate change and coastal erosion

    7 July 2021
    Research & Development

    Energy & Environment Institute, University of Hull, has released this amazing video named ‘Insecure: an exploration of climate change and coastal erosion with Withernsea High School’. Withernsea High School worked with the Energy and Environment Institute to explore the impact that climate change is having on coastal erosion within their community. Students collected stories from […]