Dredging & Flood Defence

The biggest container ship to call at Hamburg, the 13,800 TEU CMA CGM flagship Christophe Colomb, will visit the German Elbe port regularly from July.

Deltares, an expertise centre for delta technology in Delft, and Rotterdams Van Oord, have come up with an innovative concept to combat the US oil spill.

Glasgow based marine environmental consultancy Partrac Ltd has agreed a worldwide agency agreement for Sediview software, the V3 of which is a unique and powerful processing tool to generate sediment concentration estimates…

IHC Parts & Services, part of the Netherland’s IHC Merwede group, now offers dredging operators and utility and infrastructure engineering companies all over the world the opportunity to rent its improved TT…

Stefan Aarninkhof of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster and his colleagues at EcosShape | Building with Nature, Jan van Dalfsen and Jan Mulder (Deltares) and Daan Rijks (DHV Consultants), won the…

Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord provided an update on recent projects in the Americas, the Mediterranean and Africa with its most recent financial results.

Dutch specialist ship builder IHC Merwede simultaneously launched two IHC Beaver 9029C cutter suction dredgers late last month. The vessels have been designed and built for one of IHC’s large Chinese customers,…

After almost three years work, Belgian dredging and hydraulic engineering group DEME has announced that it has completed a major port upgrading programme in Durban, South Africa.

The UK Marine Aggregate Dredging Industry, seeking to introduce best practice into the management of the marine environment, introduced in 2003 the Marine Aggregates Regional Environmental Assessments (MAREA) as a tool to…

Although in 2009 the net profit of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. fell to €227.9m from €249.1m the year before revenue was up to a record €2.2bn and was widely…

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) makes its second stand alone technical visit to the Spanish Port of Gijón on 26 and 27 April. Participating CEDA members will see first hand…

At the end of last month a Damen cutter suction dredger of type CSD450 was prepared for transport to Nigeria for Fiddil Nigeria Ltd.

Dredging of the Port of Raahe has been the most significant channel project in Finland over the past decades. The project was ordered by the City of Raahe and the Finnish Maritime…

Veils of fog dissolve in the cold morning sun. Six shivering men hurry to the reclamation area to man the bulldozers. They must be ready, engines running, when the dredger arrives. Suddenly…

Dutch dredging major Van Oord christened the hydraulic backhoe dredger Simson last month in a ceremony at the Wilhelmina Quay in Rotterdam.

What the port describes as ‘ a new era of opportunities for Lerwick Harbour’ has been launched officially with a celebration marking the latest significant phase in an ongoing development programme at…