Dredging & Flood Defence

The Netherlands based salvage specialist Multraship Salvage successfully salved a sinking dredger off the coast of Kent in the UK last month.

Italian dredger builder Italdraghe SpA returns for Seawork 2009 via Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst, which it met when exhibiting at Seawork 2007.

Dutch dredging major Van Oord’ s latest trailing suction hopper dredger, Vox Maxima, was named and launched at the IHC Merwede yard at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands. Her Royal Highness Princess Má…

A Damen field service engineer has recently returned from his site visit to Kigoma, Tanzania where he presided over the assembly of a dredger of type DOP CSD350 and put it into…

Dutch company Martens en Van Oord has awarded Reson the contract to deliver and install two excavator monitoring systems.

DEME in Belgium says that, amongst several new assignments in the Middle East, an important contract has been awarded to Dredging International, a DEME Group company, for site preparation dredging and reclamation…

The US Army Corps of Engineers operates two hopper dredgers on the west coast of the USA to keep shipping channels open. The largest and most modern of them is the ‘…

The new CIRIA Guide to Cost Standards for Dredging Equipment 2009 offers a standard method to establish the capital and related costs of a wide range of dredging equipment.

Despite the economic climate the work load at specialist dredging and coastal consultants Anthony D Bates Partnership (ADBP) remain buoyant. The Somerset UK based company is undertaking a wide variety of projects…

‘ Connecting the World through Dredging’ was the theme when sister associations the Central Dredging Association (CEDA), which serves Africa, Europe and the Middle East joined the Western Dredging Association (WEDA), which…

While many ports are suffering in the current economic downturn Ramsgate is busy preparing for new customers, including work to accommodate the construction and support vessels associated with the Thanet Offshore Wind…

Dutch dredger builders IHC Merwede weathered the recessionary storm well last year, reporting an order book which rose to € 2bn, a 40% increase in revenue to € 1.1bn, profit before tax…

Tideway in The Netherlands is claiming a newrecord for stone dumping at depth during a recent project west of Ibiza in theMediterranean, when Tideways vessel Rollingstoneplaced 20,000m3 of rock at a depth…