Dredging & Flood Defence – Page 24
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NewsContainment facility paper wins IADC Young Author Award
An IADC Best Paper Award for a Young Author was presented to Kaitlin McCormick of EA Engineering, Science and Technology, Inc. of Maryland USA at the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) 30th Technical Conference and the 41st Texas A&M Seminar.
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NewsPrecision dredging clears Brunel’s basin.
Jenkins Marine has been chosen to help undertake the historic restoration of the Millbay Inner Basin at Plymouth.
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NewsRadar delivers dredger captain shortest route home
Dredger Captain Pieter den Herder of Swalinge Scheepvaart in the Netherlands has been one of the first to trial Enhanced Target Detection (ETD) on his Kelvin Hughes'' MantaDigital radar.
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NewsCharles Darwin completes Jan De Nul programme
Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul completed a massive fleet renewal programme last week with the launch of the trailing suction hopper dredger ''Charles Darwin''.
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NewsElbe deepening: Dredging debate continues as boxships grow
The biggest container ship to call at Hamburg, the 13,800 TEU CMA CGM flagship ''Christophe Colomb'', will visit the German Elbe port regularly from July.
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NewsDredgers devise concept to combat Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Deltares, an expertise centre for delta technology in Delft, and Rotterdam''s Van Oord, have come up with an innovative concept to combat the US oil spill.
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NewsPartrac in Sediview software agency agreement
Glasgow based marine environmental consultancy Partrac Ltd has agreed a worldwide agency agreement for Sediview software, the V3 of which is a unique and powerful processing tool to generate sediment concentration estimates from Teledyne RDI 1200 and 600 kHz Broadband ADCP instruments.
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NewsImproved pump dredging unit for small projects
IHC Parts & Services, part of the Netherland’s IHC Merwede group, now offers dredging operators and utility and infrastructure engineering companies all over the world the opportunity to rent its improved TT Pump Dredging Unit.
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News‘Building with Nature’ wins dredging paper award
Stefan Aarninkhof of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster and his colleagues at EcosShape | Building with Nature, Jan van Dalfsen and Jan Mulder (Deltares) and Daan Rijks (DHV Consultants), won the CEC Best Paper Award for their work entitled ‘Sustainable Development of Nourished Shorelines’.
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NewsUpdate of Van Oord’s recent work - by David Foxwell
Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord provided an update on recent projects in the Americas, the Mediterranean and Africa with its most recent financial results.
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NewsDouble Dutch dredger launch for Chinese operator
Dutch specialist ship builder IHC Merwede simultaneously launched two IHC Beaver 9029C cutter suction dredgers late last month. The vessels have been designed and built for one of IHC’s large Chinese customers, Sinohydro, at Dutch shipyards by IHC Beaver Dredgers.
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NewsDEME completes new port approaches in Durban – by David Foxwell
After almost three years work, Belgian dredging and hydraulic engineering group DEME has announced that it has completed a major port upgrading programme in Durban, South Africa.
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NewsAggregates dredging assessments pave way for wind
The UK Marine Aggregate Dredging Industry, seeking to introduce best practice into the management of the marine environment, introduced in 2003 the Marine Aggregates Regional Environmental Assessments (MAREA) as a tool to evaluate marine aggregate extraction in coastal and offshore waters and its impact on environmental and other maritime activities.
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NewsRecord revenue as profit falls at Boskalis
Although in 2009 the net profit of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. fell to €227.9m from €249.1m the year before revenue was up to a record €2.2bn and was widely spread, both geographically and across all market segments.
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NewsCEDA to visit major Spanish port expansion
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) makes its second stand alone technical visit to the Spanish Port of Gijón on 26 and 27 April. Participating CEDA members will see first hand one of Spain''s largest port projects, which will double the capacity of the port.
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NewsFull option ‘Ononaku’ bound for Nigeria
At the end of last month a Damen cutter suction dredger of type CSD450 was prepared for transport to Nigeria for Fiddil Nigeria Ltd.
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NewsDeepened channel boosts Port of Raahe
Dredging of the Port of Raahe has been the most significant channel project in Finland over the past decades. The project was ordered by the City of Raahe and the Finnish Maritime Administration and was conducted by local contractors Terramare Ltd.
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NewsReclamation extends Ronaldsway Airport runway
Veils of fog dissolve in the cold morning sun. Six shivering men hurry to the reclamation area to man the bulldozers. They must be ready, engines running, when the dredger arrives. Suddenly Pearl River’s massive green bow materializes out of the fog, bow coupling already connected.
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NewsVan Oord christens backhoe dredger Simson
Dutch dredging major Van Oord christened the hydraulic backhoe dredger ''Simson'' last month in a ceremony at the Wilhelmina Quay in Rotterdam.
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Boskalis unaffected by Dubai financial crisis
Responding to questions from Maritime Journal, a spokesperson for Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster said the company would not be affected by the financial crisis in Dubai.
