Dredging
Silver Award for Team Van Oord
Team Van Oord has been awarded a silver award in the ‘Innovation’ category for the Medmerry Managed Realignment Scheme, delivered on behalf of the Environment Agency. The company is listed as a Green World Award winner alongside governments and organizations from countries including South Korea, Pol
VBA to Begin Morecambe Scheme
Joint venture VBA is set to start work next week on the first phase of a multi-million pound project to replace Morecambe’s wave reflection wall. VBA, comprising of VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and Atkins, is the main contractor for the project which will also see VolkerStevin’s sister company
IADC Annual Report Published
IADC (International Association of Dredging Companies) has just released their Annual Report for 2014. In this report, the board gives an overview of the state of affairs of the Association and its activities in the last year. Highlights of the year include the start of the ecosystem services projec
Chichester Dredging Starts Soon
The Chichester Bar dredging program is planned to take place from Thursday, 29 October – Sunday, 1 November 2015, reported the Chichester Harbor Conservancy. Dredging operations will be undertaken by the trailing suction hopper dredger Sospan Dau. The 73 m-long dredger will rainbow the dredged mater
DESET Technology on Display
PROGROUPE has presented a new promotional video of the DESET (DEwatering SEdiment Technology), produced in cooperation with the local authorities managing Veľké Kozmálovce reservoir. The promotional operation presented the real conditions of the dredging and dewatering in their technological headqua
Works Progressing on River Bain
The Environment Agency has strengthened a 200-meter stretch of embankment on the River Bain near Coningsby as part of its ongoing maintenance program to reduce flood risk. The work is part of the Environment Agency’s £1.8 million asset repair program which, over the next year, will repair approximat
UniSite Posts Q3 Results
UniSite Group, a Chinese company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, municipal and mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, has just presented their business results for the third quarter of 2015. In this time frame, UniSite took part in some interesting
Highlights of the Week
VIDEO: Panama Canal Expansion – October 2015 Seven years had passed since the inauguration of the Panama Canal Expansion Program and the project continues forward at full speed. IMS Introduces GeoPool Technology IMS Dredge has announced the acquisition of a patent pending state-of-the-art dewatering
Koper Dredging Underway
The next phase of the Luka Koper dredging program, which will deepen the port by an additional meter, is currently underway. The Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger Dravo Costa Dorada arrived in Koper earlier this week, with the main goal to complete this task. About 66,000 m³ of sea sediment
Wasa to Dredge Hanhikivi Harbor
Titan-2, the main building contractor of Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant project, has signed a contract concerning the dredging of the harbor basin at Hanhikivi headland. The subcontractor is Wasa Dredging Ltd. The contract covers removal of soil and transportation of the dredged material to the mar
Dublin ABR Project Step Closer
The Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Jonathan Taylor, and Dublin Port Company representatives discussed the finalization of financing arrangements for Dublin Port’s Alexandra Basin Redevelopment (ABR) Project yesterday. The EIB has committed to providing a €100m loan amortizing
Sabetta Dredging 2015 Completed
Mordraga LLC, part of the DEME group, successfully completed this year’s dredging operations at Sabetta port on the Yamal Peninsula of Russia. During the short ice-free season, from July until mid-October 2015, Mordraga – as subcontractor of USK MOST Group – worked on the project in the Gulf of Ob.
More Dredging on River Parrett
A fresh round of dredging on the River Parrett will begin next year, after the Board of the Somerset Rivers Authority agreed to target a stretch between Northmoor and the M5. Following on from the dredging of 8km of the Parrett and Tone in 2014, the SRA has picked out 0.75km between Northmoor pumpin
East Devon BMP Progresses
At the third meeting of East Devon District Council’s Sidmouth & East Beach Management Plan (BMP) steering group, on Tuesday, 13 October 2015, the project received endorsement from Martin Davies, Flood & Coastal Risk Management Advisor at the Environment Agency. The focus of the meeting was the pres