Dredging & Flood Defence

Work has started at the Port of Felixstowe on the latest expansion of the UK’s largest container port. VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as…

Italy’s Italdraghe has delivered, as part of a complete dredging equipment package, a newly-built cutter suction dredger and booster station to Guyana, South America.

Dutch dredging expert, IHC Merwede has been awarded the contract for the design, construction and delivery of a 5,500m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) to Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) in South…

Dutch dredger designer, Holland Dredge Design, is a relatively new kid on the block, having been about for only two years, but it has a solid reputation having been built on the…

Netherlands based vessel builder IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the 23,545kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger Al Bahar C/D Huta 12 at the company’s shipyard in Kinderdijk.

When piping systems had to be replaced on the 1983-built trailing suction hopper dredger FRPD 309 , the work needed to be done as quickly as possible.

Stema Systems launched the newly developed DensiTune at OI2014 in London last month.

Dutch dredging and marine civils contractor Van Oord has been awarded a land reclamation project in Kuwait valued at some €500m for client Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).

Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered a complete trailing pipe including submersed dredge pump to a Russian pontoon.

IHC Merwede has been awarded the contract for the design, construction and delivery of a 23,684kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) from Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis).

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is experiencing rapid population growth which is placing ever greater demands on the country’s limited water resources due to increasing needs for crop irrigation, drinking water…

The 35th Consultative Meeting of the Parties of the London Convention 1972 and London Protocol have adopted Guidelines for Assessment of Dredged Material.

The Netherlands’ IHC Merwede has recently secured orders to the value of €125m for a wide range of new cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) and related equipment.