Dredging & Flood Defence – Page 40
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NewsNewbuild Suction Hopper Dredger Deployed From Spain to Seine
Dredger building in Spain received another boost recently when French operators GIE Dragages Ports took delivery of the 5,000m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger Daniel Laval from the IZAR Gijon shipyard. The vessel will be deployed primarily for maintenance dredging operations in the river Seine estuary and at Dunkirk.
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NewsIHC Holland Sails Into Third Chinese Century
Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland has extended its remarkable record of providing vessels for Chinese clients into a third century with the launch and naming ceremony last month of the 12,888m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Xin Hai Long for China Harbour Engineering Company/ Shanghai Waterway Bureau.
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NewsThe 'Best Environmental Project' Award for PPP Flood Defence
seawork2002 exhibitor Westminster Dredging is part of a consortium which has just scooped the ''Best Environmental Project'' Award 2002 for the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) flood defence scheme to be let in the UK.
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NewsIHC Yards in Jumbo Dredging Delivery
A large order of dredgers, dredging support craft and dredging equipment left the Netherlands early May bound for Nigeria. The delivery represents a major success for the combined forces of IHC Holland''s business units Beaver Dredgers and Delta Shipyard, both at Sliedrecht.
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Boskalis Wins Gothenburg Harbour Dredging Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has won an order for broadening and deepening the entrance channels to Sweden''s Port of Gothenburg in a dredging contract valued at more than ?30m. The client is the Swedish Maritime Organisation (SMO) and the Safer Fairways to Gothenburg Project, will start in December, with completion ...
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ABPmer hosts dredging workshop
Representatives from major European ports were recently welcomed by Associated British Ports'' (ABP) Port of Southampton and ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) - ABP''s Southampton-based research subsidiary - for the eighth annual International Workshop on Dredging and Surveying.
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Jan de Nul Busy in Caribbean
Jan de Nul has provided an update on its recent activities in the Caribbean region.
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Dredging Project is Precursor to New Facilities in Galway
The Department of the Marine and Natural Resources in Dublin, Ireland, has issued a tender for a major capital dredging project that will be carried out in, and adjacent to, the existing port at IRL-Rossaveel, Cashla Bay, on the north shore of Galway Bay.
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Good year from Van Oord ACZ
Van Oord Group, the Dutch dredging and marine construction firm, says it has ''a well filled order book'', and what it calls ''good prospects for profit in 2002''.
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NewsDredger Protection Prioritised
Dredgers are hardworking vessels, prone to extreme mechanical wear and tear inherent to the nature of their enterprise. However, dredger operators are keen that their vessels should appear in first class condition at all times.
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NewsNew Dredger Orders for De Groot Nijkerk
Dutch dredging equipment manufacturer De Groot Nijkerk has landed orders for three of their popular stationary dredgers. Two of type CZ150 are a repeat order of package deliveries to a satisfied customer in the Ukraine while the DPZ180 is a complete sand winning dredger for a customer in West Africa.
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NewsHumberside Hails Arrival of 'Pat M'
Humber Work Boats celebrated 30 years of successful operations with naming and blessing ceremonies earlier this month for its new self-propelled dipper dredger Pat M. Releasing the champagne was Pat Morgan (Pat M), wife of Humber Work Boats'' Managing Director John Morgan.
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NewsJan De Nul Orders the World's Largest Deep Dredging Installation
The Jan de Nul Group of Belgium placed an order with IHC Holland for the design and delivery of equipment for the world''s largest deep dredging installation for the trailing suction hopper dredger Vasco da Gama.
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Thames Dredging Tackles Sand Banks
The Environment Agency in the UK says an emergency workforce has started tackling some of the sandbanks in the River Thames caused by last winter''s exceptional floods.
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NewsDredging continues on River Wensum
The second phase of a three-year winter programme to dredge the River Wensum, near Norwich in the UK, has got underway. The Broads Authority says dredging will continue between Bishop''s Bridge and Fye Bridge on winter weekdays to minimise disruption to river traffic.
