Dredging & Flood Defence

Dutch dredging and marine civils contractor Van Oord has been awarded a land reclamation project in Kuwait valued at some €500m for client Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).

Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered a complete trailing pipe including submersed dredge pump to a Russian pontoon.

IHC Merwede has been awarded the contract for the design, construction and delivery of a 23,684kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) from Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis).

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is experiencing rapid population growth which is placing ever greater demands on the country’s limited water resources due to increasing needs for crop irrigation, drinking water…

The 35th Consultative Meeting of the Parties of the London Convention 1972 and London Protocol have adopted Guidelines for Assessment of Dredged Material.

The Netherlands’ IHC Merwede has recently secured orders to the value of €125m for a wide range of new cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) and related equipment.