Following construction of the first five islands of the Marker Wadden, Boskalis will expand this nature reserve with two new islands on behalf of Dutch Society for the Preservation of Nature (Natuurmonumenten) and the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat).
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
DEME Group is participating in an innovative environmental project to make the use of clean dredged material much more efficient in the Rhine-Meuse estuary. The main goal of the project is to deliver knowledge and new techniques for sustainable sediment management. Following dredging operations, a l
Port of Antwerp has just introduced plans to deepen the quay wall of Europa Terminal. The main goal of this project, conducted in cooperation with PSA Antwerp – the terminal operator, is to enable ET to handle the largest container vessels. The current maximum draught for vessels that can moor at th
The offshore wind brought the most revenue to Van Oord in 2020, surpassing for the first time the company’s Dredging business. Van Oord recorded € 632 million in revenue at its Offshore Wind business in 2020, a 10.7 per cent increase compared to € 571 million reported in 2019. The division’s operati
C-Job Naval Architects is launching an in-house developed trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) series – aimed to filling the gap between standard designs and fully tailored vessels. The TSHD Fleet features maintenance, multifunctional, and capital dredgers each with varying hopper capacity. Each
Wilson Sons, one of the largest integrated port and maritime logistics operators in Brazil, has acquired a minority stake in Israeli startup Docktech along with a commercial exclusivity agreement to use the company’s maritime technology to monitor berth and waterway depth in Brazilian ports. With th
Marine engineering consultancy LOC has been awarded a contract by Egyptian Group for Multi-Purpose Terminals (EGMPT) to provide engineering services related to the Alexandria Port navigation channel expansion. Under the contract, LOC’s Egyptian operation will provide consulting and engineering servi
Wartsila has expanded its partnership with Van Oord with the signing of a 9-year renewal and extension to its Optimized Maintenance agreement. The contract covers the Wartsila engines installed on the cutter suction dredger ‘Athena’ and was signed in January 2021. The new agreement also expands on t
Van Oord has inked a new contract with the Environment Agency to continue protecting the Lincolnshire coast of the UK for the next four years. The contract encompasses beach nourishment over the length of 20 kilometers and requires around 400,000 cubic meters of sand each year and continues the work
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 Ja
The Port of Ipswich, owned by Associated British Ports (ABP), has reached a milestone of handling 2 million tonnes of cargo since the beginning of the first lockdown in 2020. Since 23 March, the port has remained open and busy, handling 2 million tonnes of exports and imports of various products inc
The Port of Frederikshavn has just released these beautiful photos from their latest dredging program. The dredging work is well in progress, the Port said in their project update. The dredging is being done in connection with the establishment of the new quay facility by Østre Kaj, deepening the ar
The Municipality of The Hague has awarded the Port of Scheveningen maintenance dredging contract to Baggerbedrijf De Boer/Dutch Dredging. The tender was characterized by the emphasis on sustainable vessels. To this end, the trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone is equipped with a new Tier III inst
