Dredging & Flood Defence

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

An invite to tender for €6.2 million work has been issued to build a breakwater and artificially feed a section of beach on Spain’s popular Costa del Sol.

22nd February 2024

Beaches at risk on Spain’s Costa del Sol

22nd February 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Extensive engineering works to prepare the Port of Tallinn for increased trade capacity, new offshore wind farms and added military use will be boosted with 10 hectares of reclaimed land.

5th February 2024

Tallinn Port prepares ground for major work

5th February 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

In a key milestone for the River Thames Scheme (RTS), The Environment Agency and Surrey County Council have launched the next phase of their search for a construction partner to build the…

1st February 2024

River Thames Scheme opens tender for civils partner

1st February 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Van Oord has been contracted by FSRU Wilhelmshaven to build a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit jetty at Wilhelmshaven in Germany.

18th January 2024

Contract agreed for ‘priority’ FSRU jetty in Germany

18th January 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The UK is a key player in the European dredging market, with a 21% revenue share in 2020, according to market research company, Fact.MR.

12th January 2024

UK ‘key player’ in European dredging

12th January 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A large marine civil engineering project in the Netherlands is reaching completion, the leaders of the Terneuzen New Lock (Nieuwe Sluis) project have said.

11th January 2024

Dutch North Sea Port prepares to open major expansion

11th January 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

MAN Energy Solutions has won a deal with Dutch dredger specialist Royal Boskalis to supply three engines plus exhaust gas cleaning systems for a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD).

10th January 2024

MAN engines for Boskalis dredger

10th January 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The third phase of the latest land reclamation project for the Maldives has officially begun, urban developer Urbanco announced on December 30.

3rd January 2024

3rd phase to save sinking islands goes ahead

3rd January 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

€250 million engineering works at Scandinavia’s biggest port have been given the green light by the EU.

7th December 2023

EU gives go-ahead for major works at Gothenburg

7th December 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Cosmos Van Oord, a joint venture of Cosmos Shipping and Van Oord, has been awarded a dredging project to create a new deepwater berth at Bulgaria’s largest port.

6th December 2023

Expanding port capacity in Bulgaria

6th December 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to coastal flooding has been launched by a UK and US collaboration.

15th November 2023

Pioneering sea wall project aims to stave off flooding

15th November 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Van Oord has won three new contracts worth around €200 million in total to reinforce the Romanian coastline.

10th November 2023

Van Oord wins three coastline projects

10th November 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

As the so-called Storm Ciarán lashed southern England and northern France on November 1, Greenpeace said thousands of flood defences were woefully inadequate.

2nd November 2023

Flood defences inadequate to cope with Storm Ciarán

2nd November 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Dutch coastal towns and infrastructure have been protected ‘for the coming years’ after extensive sand replenishment works

1st November 2023

Dutch coast ‘stabilised’ with beach nourishment

1st November 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Boskalis has signed a contract with Dutch shipbuilding company Royal IHC to build a large state-of-the-art trailing suction hopper dredger.

30th October 2023

Boskalis inks Dutch TSHD deal

30th October 2023

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Port of Hamburg has released a video that shows the work it has to do to keep the port dredged enough to maintain operations.

24th October 2023

VIDEO: Dredging to keep Hamburg Port operational

24th October 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Concordia Damen recently delivered a special project for a Nigerian dredging company, the conversion of a Dutch barge into a dredger.

19th September 2023

A complex conversion from barge to dredger

19th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

A third LNG dredger and a second cable-layer been christened in Rotterdam for Van Oord.

8th September 2023

Van Oord christens two vessels

8th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Van Oord’s Vox Apolonia has been contracted for dredging and maintenance work by one of the UK’s largest port operators.

15th August 2023

New LNG dredger contracted for Peel Ports

15th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

PD Ports has dug deep to buy a dredger for the River Tees to replace its 50-year-old workhorse.

25th July 2023

PSD Ports snaps up €27 million ‘future-proof’ dredger

25th July 2023