Dredging & Flood Defence

Belgiums DEME Group has confirmed an order for two new dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredgers designed specifically for operation in European waters.

The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has placed the first stone for an artificial island to be constructed by Royal Boskalis Westminster off the coast of the Punta Pacifica residential area on…

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published its latest information paper, entitled: Environmental Monitoring Procedures.

In an event the global dredging community can be proud of, Jonathan Berger, CEO of America’s Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, rang the Opening Bell recently at the New York City…

Rotterdam based Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors BV has developed a new technique for dredging at great water depths.

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has put the flexible new, custom-built dredger Modi into service and ordered new icebreakers as part of a fleet modernisation programme.

At the end of February, the Deputy Emir of Qatar officially started the controlled flooding operations for the new Hamad Port Project.

Italy-based dredger and dredging equipment manufacturer Italdraghe is about to deliver the first of its new range of amphibious Octopus dredgers.

The Belgium-based global dredging major Jan De Nul continues seven years of fleet expansion with the launch last month of the multi-purpose vessel Isaac Newton and an order for what will be…

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new paper which aims to further the debate on Adaptive Management (AM) as an important tool in managing dredging and reclamation projects…

Dutch dredging giants Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord have won a contract valued at €350m from developer PT Muara Wisesa Samudra to design and construct a 160 hectare artificial island to…

Although best known as a dredger manufacturer, Italdraghe SpA, also has considerable experience in designing and building weed harvesters.

Polite Laboyrie of Witteveen and Bos in the Netherlands has been elected as the next Central Dredging Association CEDA President.

Dutch dredging major Van Oord has ordered two trailing suction hopper dredgers, each with a hopper capacity of some 17,000 m3, for delivery in 2017.

Dredgers from the fleet of Boskalis Westminster have completed a program of capital dredging to deepen and widen the approach channel linking international shipping lanes to the ABP Port of Southampton, UK.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the only American dredging company with significant international operations, has cut steel for the construction of its articulated tug and barge (ATB) trailing suction hopper dredger.

Royal IHC (IHC) successfully launched the first Easydredge 2700 last month. It is the first vessel in the companys range of competitively priced standard trailing suction hopper dredgers.

The Damen DOP Submersible Dredge Pump range has been enlarged. The DOP-range now runs from the smallest possible DOP150, to the DOP450L doing 4.000 m3 of mixture per hour.