Dredging & Flood Defence

Damen Dredging Equipment has handed the cutter suction dredger Susanna II over to its owner, dredging contractor Verboon Maasland.

Work on Liverpool2, a new terminal at the UK port, has begun with more than a million cubic metres of material now to be moved by dredgers to clear a deepwater channel…

Accurate survey results in realms with abundant mud are not easily obtained.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today that the Israel Ports Company has published the first stage of an international tender for the operations of new container terminals to be built in…

Dutch dredging giant Boskalis has won the contract for construction of the Bronka Port in St Petersburg, Russia.

Prolec’s ‘Digmaster Pro’ depth monitoring and guidance system has been selected by the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration to support a significant fleet upgrade.

Italian dredger and dredging equipment builder Italdraghe recently delivered another BDC 200 dredging bucket to a Genoa-based company specialising in dredging works and beach replenishment.

IHC Merwede has delivered the Albert Aleman Zubieta to Autoridad del Canal de Panama (ACP) in Panama City.

The hopper dredger Jean Ango has been handed over to its French owner, Dragages-Ports, the major French publicly owned company which operates a large number of dredgers maintaining all major sea ports.

A collaboration which dates to an initial meeting at Seawork has led to Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe and UK workboat builder Goodchild Marine commissioning the first of a new range of dredgers…

The next IADC International Seminar on Dredging & Reclamation will take place on 24–28 June 2013 at Delft in the Netherlands.

A grant from the European Fisheries Fund has led to a major life extension project being undertaken on the dredger Kilmourne, built by James W. Cook of Wivenhoe in 1986 to the…

The World Dredging Congress XX (WODCON XX) will be held in the Square-Brussels Meeting Centre in Brussels, Belgium from 3 – 7 June 2013.

Seawork exhibitor Humber Work Boats has dispatched its 1,000 tonne self-propelled dredger Pat M to Venezuela to help improve the country’s port infrastructure.

Associated British Ports (ABP) has received consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to improve the marine access to the UK Port of Southampton with an extensive programme of dredging.

Acting on behalf of the Marine Management Organization, Exeter UK based Michelmores partner Andrew Oldland QC successfully responded to an appeal against a landmark conviction at the Court of Appeal.

In late 2008 a joint venture was formed between the Netherlands based VOSTA LMG and the Bangladesh Karnafuly Shipyard to build three CSD450 cutter suction dredgers for the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport…