Dredging & Flood Defence

The prestigious Spirit of Innovation Award was presented at the Seawork Gala Dinner last month to Fowey UK based Triskel Marine Ltd (TML) for their dredge monitoring DataBuoy. Their product won against…

Torild Jørgensen of the Oslo Port Authority and her co-author, Kjetil Lønborg Jensen of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute won the Central Dredging Association (CEDA) CEC Best Paper Award 2008 for their paper…

Hamburg based hydraulic engineering and port construction company Möbius AG is poised to expand its activities by investing millions of Euros in the construction of two new trailing suction hopper dredgers.

A Damen type CSD500 cutter suction dredger was undergoing normal maintenance in a Port Harcourt shipyard when the harbour crane crashed, smashing the dredger' s operating cabin.

Dutch specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede had another record breaking year in 2007, with profits doubling to € 65m, a 50% increase in revenue to € 774m and an order book which…

Westminster Dredging' s trailing suction hopper dredger Waterway is carrying out the first phase of a £ 12m project to deepen and widen access to the Shetland' s Lerwick Port and reclaim…

Cheltenham UK based Wave Seven Marine returns to Seawork and will be showing off some American dredging innovation amongst other products on Stand 144 at the 2008 show. .

Romania is proving to be an excellent new market for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe SpA. The number of dredgers delivered to Romania since its entry into the EU has increased considerably, with…

DEME in Belgium has announced that  the Qatar based joint venture company MEDCO, a partnership between Qatari company UDC, the Qatari Government and DEME Group company Dredging International, is to be part…