Dredging & Flood Defence

The Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME has recently secured several international dredging contracts with a total contract value of €150m.

Italy-based dredger and dredging equipment manufacturer Italdraghe has reported a busy and successful 2015, with activity reaching record setting dimensions.

Barcelona, Spain-based MTG Systems used the occasion of the recent Europort exhibition to introduce DMET, a hammerless system for replacing cutter suction dredger teeth which promises to maximise productivity.

Nearly 250 members of the dredging community gathered in Rotterdam last November for CEDA Dredging Days, which ran concurrently with the Europort exhibition.

Envisan France, the French environmental subsidiary of Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group, has inaugurated its Eco-Materials Production Centre in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the first centre of its kind in the Mediterranean area.

The Dutch Highways and Waterways Agency (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, which is located at the entrance to the North Sea Canal, officially to the Consortium…

The Netherlands’ Royal IHC has launched the 1,840m3 capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger’ Mahury’ at partner shipyard MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria.

Italian dredging specialist Dragflow has introduced a dredge that they claim can easily work in every kind of conditions, even when the water level is minimum.