Dredging & Flood Defence – Page 17
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Licensing changes for dredging in England
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is encouraging people and organisations carrying out navigational dredging in England to prepare for changes affecting the activity from April 2014.
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NewsNew CSD to maintain vital depth on Lake Tana
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is experiencing rapid population growth which is placing ever greater demands on the country’s limited water resources due to increasing needs for crop irrigation, drinking water and hydroelectric power.
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NewsDredged material guidelines adopted by IMO
The 35th Consultative Meeting of the Parties of the London Convention 1972 and London Protocol have adopted Guidelines for Assessment of Dredged Material.
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NewsIHC Merwede lands €125m in dredger orders
The Netherlands’ IHC Merwede has recently secured orders to the value of €125m for a wide range of new cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) and related equipment.
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NewsSister dredger delivered 32 years later
Damen Dredging Equipment has handed the cutter suction dredger Susanna II over to its owner, dredging contractor Verboon Maasland.
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NewsDredging kicks off Liverpool2 development
Work on Liverpool2, a new terminal at the UK port, has begun with more than a million cubic metres of material now to be moved by dredgers to clear a deepwater channel at the Port of Liverpool.
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NewsMud density probe aids dredging surveys
Accurate survey results in realms with abundant mud are not easily obtained.
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NewsIsrael announces tenders for Med terminals
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today that the Israel Ports Company has published the first stage of an international tender for the operations of new container terminals to be built in Haifa and Ashdod.
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NewsBoskalis wins Russian port project
Dutch dredging giant Boskalis has won the contract for construction of the Bronka Port in St Petersburg, Russia.
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Dredge Yard delivers custom components
Dredging equipment supplier Dredge Yard is supplying customised dredging components to Bahrain, an Arabian Gulf country in which major dredging and land reclamation projects are underway.
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NewsWODA agrees Principles of Sustainable Dredging
The World Dredging Congress and Exhibition (WODCON) in Brussels saw the introduction of new principles for sustainable dredging by the chairman of the WODA and CEDA Environment Commissions, Polite Laboyrie.
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NewsGerman waterways choose Prolec
Prolec’s ‘Digmaster Pro’ depth monitoring and guidance system has been selected by the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration to support a significant fleet upgrade.
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NewsIHC delivers backhoe dredger for Panama Canal
IHC Merwede has delivered the Albert Aleman Zubieta to Autoridad del Canal de Panama (ACP) in Panama City.
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NewsAn alternative approach to dredging
Italian dredger and dredging equipment builder Italdraghe recently delivered another BDC 200 dredging bucket to a Genoa-based company specialising in dredging works and beach replenishment.
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NewsDutch/Spanish teamwork begets French dredger
The hopper dredger Jean Ango has been handed over to its French owner, Dragages-Ports, the major French publicly owned company which operates a large number of dredgers maintaining all major sea ports.
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NewsItaly/UK dredger collaboration debuts at Seawork
A collaboration which dates to an initial meeting at Seawork has led to Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe and UK workboat builder Goodchild Marine commissioning the first of a new range of dredgers in Essex UK earlier this month.
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News42nd IADC Dredging Seminar in Delft
The next IADC International Seminar on Dredging & Reclamation will take place on 24–28 June 2013 at Delft in the Netherlands.
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NewsRedesign extends life of dredger Kilmourne
A grant from the European Fisheries Fund has led to a major life extension project being undertaken on the dredger Kilmourne, built by James W. Cook of Wivenhoe in 1986 to the order of the Northern Ireland Fishery Harbour Authority.
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NewsDredging’s biggest event returns to Europe
The World Dredging Congress XX (WODCON XX) will be held in the Square-Brussels Meeting Centre in Brussels, Belgium from 3 – 7 June 2013.
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NewsHWB wins Venezuela dredging contract
Seawork exhibitor Humber Work Boats has dispatched its 1,000 tonne self-propelled dredger Pat M to Venezuela to help improve the country’s port infrastructure.
