The backhoe dredger Dinopotes continues to install armour rock, and the backhoe dredger Razende Bol has recently been dredging for unexploded ordnance. Concrete sections of the wave wall are being cast in Ireland, and, at the time of writing, were due to be shipped to Great Yarmouth soon.

The project will see construction of two rock breakwaters totaling 1,400m in length with a total installation of about 850,000 tons of rock, along with an internal ‘Combi-Pile’ wall of approximately 400m in length.

The internal harbour basin will be dredged to an average of 10m and 1.65 million m3 of dredged sand will be used for reclamation of the new harbour.

Work will now continue with the ongoing installation of north and south breakwaters. The cutter suction dredger Sliedrecht 35 was due to arrive to start work towards the end of the first quarter of 2008, and work was due to get under way on the removal of the wreck Polaris using Razende Bol.