Dredging & Flood Defence

Dutch contractor Van Oords largest self-propelled cutter suction dredger Athena has been named and launched at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk.

After a competitive tendering process, British Waterways (BW) has awarded a national dredging contract to marine civils contractor Land & Water Services Ltd.

Netherlands based specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede has used alternative fuels in the dredging process for the first time.

An international seminar on the Environmental Aspects of Dredging organized by PAO (Post Graduate Education) at the Delft University of Technology, in cooperation with the IADC and CEDA, will be held at…

Damen Dredging Equipment has handed over Amoris, a one-off stationary cutter suction dredger which has gone straight to work on the AMORAS silt dredging and treatment project in the Port of Antwerp.

The keel laying ceremony took place last week in the Netherlands for two new dredgers for the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental group DEME.

Piriou Shipyards in France has delivered a 2,300 cu/m capacity trailing suction hopper dredger, fitted out with Damen dredging equipment, to the French sand mining contractor CETRA.

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has been awarded the hydrodynamics, sediment mobility and turbid plume study elements of the Humber and Greater Wash Area Marine Aggregates Regional Environmental Assessment (REA) in…

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has announced the first call for papers for CEDA Dredging Days 2011.

Damen Dredging Equipment of Nijkerk in the Netherlands has replaced the submersed dredge pump drive of the sand mining dredger Maas.