Dredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities

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 one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the large Dutch and Belgian contractors were inactive. Overcapacity was a topic of the day.

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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 one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the large Dutch and Belgian contractors were inactive. Overcapacity was a topic of the day.