Dredging & Flood Defence

The Port of Rotterdam has awarded a contract to Stema Survey to deliver and implement the Silas acoustic data acquisition and processing system in combination with an OEM Odom Echotrac CV echo…

Atthe Broads Authority Navigation Committee on  October 26th members andofficers recommended that a further £ 100,000 should be spent on dredging therivers and broads and the creation of suitable disposal sites for…

Belgian dredging company Jan de Nul has announced that on October 24th the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) awarded a one year contract to a subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group for the excavation of rock alongside the…

Belgiums Jan De Nul Group, together with SAIPEM and Constructoro Norberto Odebrecht, won a contract last month from Peru LNG to build marine export facilities at the Pampa Melchorita LNG facility, located…

Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has undertaken a project extending a car terminal in the German port of Bremerhaven. The harbour project was executed by driving a sheet pile wall along…

From its location on Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, the Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) is well placed to win work on a wide variety of passing tonnage. The second quarter…

Royal Boskalis Westminsters mega trailer Queen of the Netherlands has begun dredging and reclamation operations in the waters of Abu Dhabi for Sorouh Real Estates Shams Abu Dhabi project on Reem Island.

Dutch dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster has won two large contracts in Russia. In St Petersburg, Boskalis will dredge a new access channel from the sea. In Varandey, Boskalis is involved in…

A sea wall at Wallasea Island in Essex in the UK was deliberately breached in early July, creating the UKs largest man-made marine wetland. The UK Governments Department for Environment, Food and…

Essex UK based Eco Dredging Ltd returned to Seawork this summer. Eco Dredging is a member of the Vis Group of companies in the Netherlands and specialises in the maintenance dredging of…

Hanson Aggregates Marine, which dredges and delivers to 20 wharves around the UK, Holland, Belgium and France, has surrendered two areas of licensed seabed earmarked for aggregates dredging. The move reflects the…

Marieke, the new 5,600m3 trailing suction hopper dredger for Belgian contractor DEME was launched recently at the IHC Holland Merwede yard at Sliedrecht in the Netherlands.

Belgian contractor Jan De Nul NV is undertaking coastal protection works in the north of the Netherlands which involve both beach reclamation and foreshore suppletion.

Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord has been awarded two maintenance dredging contracts in northern Germany by clients Wasser und Schiffahrtsamt and the Hamburg Port Authority. The combined value of the projects is…