Dredging & Flood Defence

The Young CEDA Belgian Section recently invited 50 students and young professionals to visit two Jan De Nul dredgers.

What is claimed to be the smallest amphibious dredger in the World has been launched by a Dutch company, Waterking.

Royal IHC has been awarded a contract for the delivery of dredge pumps by Luxembourg-based Jan De Nul Group. The agreement incorporates two onboard double-walled dredge pumps for the company’s new 18,000m3…

Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster joins a consortium which has been awarded a 1.46bn SGD contract for the port development project Tuas Terminal Phase II in Singapore.

Dutch dredging and marine construction major Van Oord is part of the Levvel consortium, awarded a €550m Afsluitdijk reinforcement project by the Netherlands’ Rijkswaterstaat.

Belgium headquartered global dredging contractor Jan De Nul has ordered three trailing suction hopper dredgers which will feature fully diesel-electric propulsion systems.

Netherlands based Royal IHC has launched the 5,400m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger DC Orisant from its shipyard at Krimpen aan den IJssel in Rotterdam.

APT Global has launched and new and improved line of in-house designed dredge ball joints named Maximus, which will become part of the group’s product portfolio.

Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a five year contract by the Buenos Aires based Comision Administradora del Rio de la Plata for the capital and maintenance dredging of…

Damen Shipyards has delivered its first cutter suction dredger to be deployed in the Scandinavian market with a CSD450 going to Finland’s Vesirakennus Ojanen Oy.

Royal IHC has launched the 6,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger Arzana from its Kinderdijk yard in the Netherlands for the Abu Dhabi based National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC).

A new dredging tool which combines cutting with suction to tackle stubborn materials from land or water based excavators has been launched by Norfolk UK based boat builder Goodchild Marine.

Belgium’s DEME Group has welcomed the new year with a keel laying ceremony for Spartacus, to be the most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world, at the Royal IHC shipyard in…

Dredging works are underway in the Port of Rotterdam for the construction of the site of a new Offshore Centre to service the activities of the offshore wind power, oil & gas…

To encourage the awareness of safety within the dredging industry, the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) presents an annual award to an exemplary programme or project which advances the application of…

The Belgium based DEME Group’s subsidiary MEDCO (Middle East Dredging Company) has been awarded a contract for the Old Doha Port Redevelopment project in Qatar.

Damen Dredging Equipment in the Netherlands has launched an online dredging tool which helps contractors choose the correct cutter suction dredger and related dredging equipment for a particular project.