Dredging & Flood Defence

The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) will hold its 30th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation on 16-20 June this year at Delft in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) continued its campaign to involve students and young professionals more closely with the industry when it announced the winners of the CEDA Dredging Days 2007…

Dutch shipbuilders IHC Merwede celebrated the Christmas season by launching the 9,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ' Breydel' from its Kinderdijk yard on 22 December. Named after 14th century Flemish freedom…

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced its intention to award the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port extension project to a consortium consisting of Dutch dredging and marine construction majors Van…

When MJ' s founding editor Peter Moth and colleague Ian Cardwell took the first issue of Maritime Journal to the Europort exhibition in Amsterdam in 1987 the dredging industry was not enjoying…

The Waterweg division of Dutch shipping company Acta Marine has recently completed the remedial lowering of a 48" diameter live gas pipeline across some 5.5km across the IJsselmeer in Northern Holland. Den…

The Dutch based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new edition of  ' Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in cooperation with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC). 

Swindon UK based hydrographic survey systems supplier Del Norte Technology Ltd has completed its contribution to the handover of the single pipe trailing suction hopper dredger ‘ M S Alacantara Santos’ from…

Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’ s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being…