Dredging & Flood Defence

A cutter head shaft bearing inspected after ten years and more than 100,000 hours of dredging silt, sand, rocks and stone has been found to have emerged completely unscathed at a Dubai…

Netherlands based Royal IHC has won a contract for the design, build and delivery of the 44,189kW self propelled cutter suction dredger Spartacus for Belgian giant DEME Group.

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a dredging contract in Brazil valued at some €120m.

Finland-based marine engine supplier Wärtsilä will provide extensive technical support and advisory services for the Singapore based large cutter dredger Cassiopeia V.

Belgium based dredging and marine construction major Jan De Nul will deploy a dredger as part of its contribution to an offshore wind farm/interconnector project in the Danish Baltic Sea.

Dutch dredging and marine construction company Van Oord has been awarded two contracts by international contractor Subsea 7.

Dhaka based business conglomerate DBL Group, which has recently launched its dredging business, DBL Dredging, is supporting its entry into this new market with an order for two IHC Beaver 50 cutter…

At the end of October the Central Dredging Association (CEDA) co-hosted a conference, with the Portuguese Engineers Association (OE) in Lisbon.

Damen Shipyards Group has announced a new line of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers.

The German waterways and shipping authority – the WSV – has ordered its biggest dredger to date to complement outsourced dredging operations and make services more flexible.

Finland-based Aquamec has launched a new amphibious multipurpose Watermaster dredger which has 50% more suction dredging capacity than its previous model.

Danish marine engineering solutions provider MacArtney Underwater Technology’s German subsidiary, MBT GmbH, has manufactured a turbidity monitoring buoy intended for deployment for accompanying environmental monitoring during dredging.

Damen Dredging Equipment in the Netherlands made an impressive newbuild delivery in September, providing a client with a cutter suction dredger only three days after the sales contract was signed.

The Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME has won a €41m dredging contract for the Container Terminal Quay Project at Port Louis Harbour in Mauritius.

Netherlands headquartered dredging and marine services giant Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has reported a net profit of €147.5m for the first half of this year despite difficult trading conditions.