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Damen DOP200 completes job in Philadelphia
A Damen ??? ??????????? dredge pump, type DOP200, has been used to empty a continuous carousel of barges. Contractor Michels Construction, Inc. successfully completed this very important job in Philadelphia recently. In total, some 26,000 cubic yards of dredge material have been removed. At the upla
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Ambassador Pirenne tours TSHD Elbe in Costa Rica
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Central America, Christine Pirenne, yesterday toured the dredging vessel Elbe, owned by Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging. Built by Royal IHC, the tralling suction hopper dredger (TSHD) is currently is dredging Caldera Harbor in Costa Rica. The to
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EXCLUSIVE: Jan De Nul wins Port Victoria dredging contract in Seychelles
Jan De Nul has won a contract to conduct the dredging works for the Port Victoria expansion project in Seychelles. According to Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA), additional negotiations will be done for the costing and, if possible, reduce the scoping size. The port expansion and rehabilitation proj
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River Yare dredging and unexploded device – major incident declared
Emergencies services and agencies in Norfolk have declared a major incident following the discovery of a suspected World War Two device in Great Yarmouth yeaterday. Norfolk Police said that the discovery in the River Yare was thought to be an ordnance device. It was found by a contractor working on
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The largest USACE hopper dredger returns from steel and machinery repairs
The Dredge Wheeler returned from steel and machinery repairs at shipyards in Charleston, SC, and Mobile, AL, last week. Later this month, the crew will conduct readiness exercises aboard the Wheeler on the Mississippi River. The Wheeler is the largest hopper dredge in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
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Kooiman: Keel laid for Van Oord’s second water injection dredger
A successful keel laying ceremony for the second of two water injection dredgers (WIJs) for the Kooiman Marine Group – on behalf of Van Oord – took place last week at Vahali Zasavica. In July 2022, Van Oord ordered the construction of two additional state-of-the-art water injection vessels from Kooi
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More cannons and artifacts discovered during Savannah River dredging
Seventeen cannons and artifacts were loaded onto a flatbed semitruck Jan. 31, 2023, at the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineers Depot and transported to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M. The cannons and artifacts were discovered in the Savannah River during the
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Jan De Nul’s giant TSHD Cristóbal Colón almost ready to sail again
Jan De Nul’s giant trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Cristóbal Colón is almost ready to sail again. The vessel was docked out in January for maintenance works. The crew is currently completing repairs along the quay and preparing the vessel for departure later this month. The TSHD specification
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Davao Norte buys Watermaster multipurpose dredger
The Davao del Norte Government has purchased a Watermaster – a mobile amphibious multipurpose dredger intended primarily for the Libuganon River in Tagum City. The province is under a state of calamity after the PHP50.3-million (around $1 million) damage in agriculture and infrastructure was recorde
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New Damen CSD650 ready for South America
Damen crews are currently preparing a new cutter suction dredger ?????? for transport. At the moment, disassembly (process of separating a machine or structure into its different parts) of the new dredger is underway at the ????? ???????? yard. According to the Dutch shipbuilder, the CSD650 is almos
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Emergency response: Amphibex dredgers help burning vessel in Mexico
Two Amphibex dredgers performed emergency response operations in Mexico recently. According to the company, on January 10th, two Amphibex models AE450 stopped their dredging work to help a burning vessel in the Port of Muelle. “We would like to congratulate the crews for their quick reaction,” AMPHI
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PHOTO UPDATE: Repairing TSHD DC Ostend in Poland
Group De Cloedt said that the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Ostend is currently at Szczecińska Stocznia Remontowa ‘Gryfia’ shipyard in Poland. Group De Cloedt owns six sea-going trailing suction hopper dredgers and two river-going suction hopper dredgers. Vessel specifications: Type: Tra
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Dragflow delivers DRP dredge to Guatemala
Dragflow srl, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty submersible pumps with agitators and complete systems for dredging, recently delivered a remote-controlled dredger to a customer in Guatemala. The dredger – designed for dredging in particularly complex and hard-to-reach environmen
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Savannah River dredging: Unexploded military device found at entrance channel
An unexploded device was found during dredging at the entrance channel of the Savannah River on January 25. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the device was found during a routine dredging operation. The vessel captain called the U.S. Coast Guard Command Duty Officer to report the find.