Dredging & Flood Defence

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued a first Call for Papers to be presented at CEDA Dredging Days , a conference which traditionally takes place alongside the Europort exhibition.

Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems BV hasunveiled its latest Dredge Head Monitoring System . It is designed to monitor the dredging process on various types of dredgers and…

Late last November Peter Madsen Rederi A/S of Denmark was awarded the contract to install the external J-tubes to the 30 offshore wind turbines being erected in the Thames Estuary at Kentish…

A three-year study which is due to be completed in March 2006 is being used to determine whether the waters of the Outer Bristol Channel in the UK are an area that…

The recently implemented EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) applies to all water bodies, including rivers, lakes, coasts and estuaries, and hence anyone who earns their living within these catchments needs to know…

Dr Elijah Ohimain, a biologist working in Nigeria, has won this years IADC Award at the World Dredging Congress (WODCON), held in Hamburg in late September.

Nakheel , developers of Dubais luxury offshore project TheWorld , has provided an update of its progress - less than a year after construction first began on the 300 islands.

Sliedrecht based dredging systems specialist IHC Systems BV has won an order from Belgian contractor Vlaamse Baggermaatschappiij NV toprovide an operational face lift for its 25 year old cutter suction dredger Vesalius…

Hollands IHC Caland group is divesting from its shipbuilding activities by proceeding with the sale of its IHC Holland and Merwede shipyards. The yards have been responsible for producing the majority of…

The launch and naming ceremony took place last month at IHC Holland sKinderdijk yard of the 1,000m 3trailing suction hopper dredger Yasin for Ports & Shipping Organisation (PSO), the port authority of…

Following on from projects recently awarded to Jan De Nul in the Sakhalin area of Russia, the Middle East, and Mauritius, the company has announced that it has also won new projects…

Chichester Marina in the UK has confirmed that it has completed an innovative dredging project designed to improve access to the marina by deeper drafted boats.

Until it recently became Damen Dredging Equipment , the operation formerly known as De Groot Nijkerk had built well over 100 one-off stationary cutter suction dredgers over a period of 60 years.…