The split hopper dredger“Omvac Diez” has been handed over to its owner Canlemar after successful sea trials. The dredger has been built in Spain to a Spanish design yet has been fitted out with Dutch Damen dredging gear. The vessel has started its productive life already, doing a harbour maintenance
The Waterfront consortium, formed by Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and the TBI companies Synchroon and Koopmans Bouwgroep, is to realize the ambitious Waterfront project of the Dutch municipality of Harderwijk. Boskalis will execute all the civil engineering and underground infrastructu
Van Oord‘s flexible fallpipe vessel (FFPV) Tertnes has been to the east coast of Mexico (Bay of Campeche) to execute subsea rock installation projects on pipelines and cables for various main contractors. The ultimate client is state oil and gas company PEMEX. FFPV vessel Tertnes was deployed to the
As of November 1st, the new Damen website, www.damen.nl, has officially gone live. The site has been structured according to Damen’s 10 Product-Market Combinations and navigation has been designed to be fast, simple and user-friendly. The new website aims to personalize content, enable infosharing a
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services, today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2011. Commentary Chief Exe
Dredge Yard, provider of latest dredging technology and equipment has announced the launch of complete line of dredge pipe pieces. The dredge pipe pieces are used on board of dredgers to connect the dredge pump with the discharge pipe. Dredge Yard specialists designed the dredge pipe pieces in diffe
The MESLU clutch is in focus at the MARINTEC 2011 in Shanghai, and it has been highly appreciated by customers thanks to its constructional advantages, especially when used in suction dredgers and other maritime applications. The MESLU, a pneumatically operated double cone friction clutch guarantees
Today, the DEME-group (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering) launched the self-propelled cutter suction dredger, AMBIORIX, one of the most powerful and advanced cutter suction dredgers in the world. The launching ceremony took place at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Th
Currently a hopper dredger is being built in Canada which will perform the maintenance dredging activities of the St Lawrence Seaway. Ocean’s companies, the shipbuilder and future dredging contractor, have opted for a proven design, fitted out with a Damen trailing pipe and other Damen dredging gear
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation has announced that it will release its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. C.D.T. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation is the largest provider of dredging services in the United Stat
IDRECO delivered the Knappheide dredger for the Teunesen Group. This dredger contains the latest trends. The ladder is equipped with an IDRECO 350 pump driven by a 500 kW frequency controlled electric engine. The ship can operate on a depth of 27 meter with a production of 600 tons per hour. The cab
Last week Idreco delivered the dredger ‘Idreco I’ at Kaspar Weiss for a ten-year dredging project. The suction dredger, type ISD 300, has a suction depth of 24 meters and a capacity of 300 tons of solids per hour. Specially designed for automated control, system can be fitted with Dredger Control, r
FSUE “Rosmorport” purchased a non-propelled HITACHI 102 dredger for the needs of the Sakhalin branch at it’s own expense. The dredger is in the seaport of Otaru area at the moment and it will be tugged to the seaport of Korsakov in the beginning of November 2011. The vessel was constructed in 1997,
Caterpillar has been awarded a renewed contract by the National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA) to supply “Construction Equipment together with Related Accessories, Supplies and Services” to NJPA’s more than 30,000 members. NJPA is a municipal agency that creates a business and service relationship all