On 8 March 2011 IRO and CEDA (Central Dredging Association) organized a successful joint members meeting. Around 225 participants listened to what the 4 large dredging companies Boskalis, Jan de Nul, Tideway and Van Oord had to say about their latest developments and their view on the contribution from the dredging industry to the oil and gas industry.

Erik de Haas, Proposals Manager Boskalis , talked about the Nordstream and Magellan projects, both environmentally sensitive areas where innovative dredging solutions were applied like making a landfall without a cofferdam.