Dredging & Flood Defence

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) and the Hamburg Water and Navigation Office (WSD), the two project developers involved, have applied to the planning authorities for a reconsideration of their revised plans for…

An extension has been awarded to an existing contract currently being executed by Belgium' s Jan De Nul Group, in a consortium with CCC/STFA, for the construction of a new port and…

Lerwick Port Authoritys £ 12m dredging project has reached a significant stage. The dredging phase is almost complete. Drill and blast operations were completed ahead of schedule by the barge Playmate and…

Van Oord has been awarded a contract to build a 5.5km quay wall on the Deira Islands in Dubai. Van Oord has already received an award for a 3.5km quay wall for…

Dutch dredging giants Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster have responded to unprecedented levels of land reclamation works in the Middle East by expanding the capacities of already large trailing suction hopper…

Damen Dredging Equipment of Nijkerk in the Netherlands has delivered a versatile cutter suction dredger to Sri Lanka, where it was urgently needed to clear small fishery harbours which remain silted by…

The keel laying of the Jan De Nuls mega trailing suction hopper dredger Leiv Eiriksson took place at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte inSestao, Spain, late last month.