Dredging & Flood Defence

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new paper which aims to further the debate on Adaptive Management (AM) as an important tool in managing dredging and reclamation projects…

Dutch dredging giants Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord have won a contract valued at €350m from developer PT Muara Wisesa Samudra to design and construct a 160 hectare artificial island to…

Although best known as a dredger manufacturer, Italdraghe SpA, also has considerable experience in designing and building weed harvesters.

Polite Laboyrie of Witteveen and Bos in the Netherlands has been elected as the next Central Dredging Association CEDA President.

Dutch dredging major Van Oord has ordered two trailing suction hopper dredgers, each with a hopper capacity of some 17,000 m3, for delivery in 2017.

Dredgers from the fleet of Boskalis Westminster have completed a program of capital dredging to deepen and widen the approach channel linking international shipping lanes to the ABP Port of Southampton, UK.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the only American dredging company with significant international operations, has cut steel for the construction of its articulated tug and barge (ATB) trailing suction hopper dredger.

Royal IHC (IHC) successfully launched the first Easydredge 2700 last month. It is the first vessel in the companys range of competitively priced standard trailing suction hopper dredgers.

The Damen DOP Submersible Dredge Pump range has been enlarged. The DOP-range now runs from the smallest possible DOP150, to the DOP450L doing 4.000 m3 of mixture per hour.