Dredging & Flood Defence

Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded two contracts in Finland with a combined contract value of €32 million.

The Damen Shipyards Group has revealed its first Electric Cutter Suction Dredger, the ECSD 650.

A basic design package for a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) destined for beach nourishing and channel maintenance activities has been delivered to a US dredging construction services company.

Belgium based dredging giant Jan De Nuls fourth Ultra-Low Emission vessel (ULEv), the trailing suction hopper dredger Sanderus, has arrived in home waters to commence maintenance dredging of Flemish ports under the…

Work on long-awaited, multi-million Euro deepening and widening of the River Elbe between Hamburg and the North Sea is making good progress with completion now expected in 2021, writes Tom Todd.

Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster and biofuels supplier GoodFuels are set to take the next key step in the Boskalis on Bio programme for the testing of sustainable biofuel oil.

Netherlands based shipbuilder Royal IHC has launched the 7,950m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger Meuse River for Belgiums DEME Group from its Krimpen aan den IJssel yard.

Belgiums Jan De Nul has equipped its trailing suction hopper dredger Alexander von Humboldt to sail on 100% renewable biofuel from certified and sustainable waste streams.

The first of Damens new Marine Aggregate Dredger class, a 103.5m MAD 3500, has been launched at Damen Shipyards Galati (DSGa) in Romania.

Van Oord recently completed the Bacton to Walcott Coastal Management Scheme for North Norfolk District Council (UK).

Netherlands based Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded two contracts for coastal protection works in the UK and Romania.

Rotterdam area based systems integrator Alewijnse Marine has introduced a new virtualisation and visualisation platform for use on trailing suction hopper dredgers.

Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has committed to reducing CO2 emissions by 15% a year during maintenance dredging works at the Nieupoort coastal marine.

The Marine & Ports division of global electronics giant ABB has won an order to provide an integrated vessel systems package for two dredgers being built by Keppel Offshore & Marine for…

Dutch dredging and marine construction major Van Oord will present a series of white papers to underline its commitment to sustainability as embodied in its new Sustainable Earth Actions (S.E.A.) programme.