Groningen Seaports just announced that the first dredging campaign in the Eemshaven for this year is scheduled to start today. According to an official announcement, this is the first time that these harbor maintenance works will be conducted with an LNG-powered dredger – Ecodelta. The dredging oper
Hanson has completed the first phase of a major upgrade at its Dagenham aggregates depot and wharf on the River Thames in London. The new screening and washing plant is capable of processing 500 tonnes of marine-dredged sand and gravel an hour. “It was designed and supplied by DUO and refined by our
ECTMarine, a Dutch supplier of dredging components, services and design, has just released the latest update on upgrading works for C.J. Duivenvoorde’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) Adriaan. The upgrade work includes the installation of a set of new and improved side sheaves on the cutter ladder fron
As one of the first projects of 2019, Dredge Yard successfully delivered 50 heavy duty dredge ball joints to the Middle East for immediate use in the gulf region. These dredge ball joints are suitable for a thick pipe with internal diameter of 750mm at continuous pressure of at least 30 bar, said th
ArcDMC Sediment Solutions, LLC of Melbourne, Florida, has been selected by the Utah Lake Restoration Project, Inc. to perform a bathymetric and geophysical survey of Lake Utah, located in the Utah Valley, North Central Utah. The purpose of this project will remediate excess phosphorus and nitrogen l
The latest version of the enginei electronic fuel management system (EFMS) from Royston diesel power, has been specified for Tarmac’s Marine business’ City of Westminster aggregate dredger. The vessel is one of a four-strong fleet of gravel and sand dredgers, which operate mainly in the North Sea an
Damen Dredging Equipment is busy working on the dredging installation for the marine aggregate dredger for CEMEX. The impressive £30 million dredger, type MAD3500, is designed to extract sand and gravel from the sea bed at depths of up to -55 meters, including in the challenging conditions of the No
SPI Products, the parent company behind some of the leading buoy and industrial flotation product lines, is getting ready to launch a new product line – a patent-pending lineup of modular floating walkways and docks the company calls Snap Dock. Blake Elder, executive vice president of SPI Products,
Composit LLC, a Kursk based developer and producer of wear-resistant rubber hoses, recently delivered a set of floating hoses for carrying out dredging works in the Astrakhan Region. Composit’s floating hoses have been used during several navigation seasons in order to achieve maximum results of the
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Jose Duarte, built in Portugal for a Portuguese dredging company by using Dutch dredging equipment, recently started its first job in Lisbon. Portugal has a long coastline and a number of busy navigable rivers – an excellent backdrop for the dredging compan
Over the last few years, ECTMarine has delivered several cutter heads to different contractors with different types cutter suction dredgers. Recently, one of the cutters supplied to a Dutch dredge contractor has been inspected after about 100.000 m3 of dredging sand, silt and clay, to see how it hel
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 14 – 20, 2019). Coast Guard Recovers Body of Volvox Asia Crew After two day of intensive search operation, the Indian Coast Guard earlier this week recovered the body of a crew member of the trailing suctio
Dredge Yard has just introduced the first 2019 addition to their dredger family – ECO 150s series. According to the company, these dredgers (Auger ECO 150, Plain Suction ECO 150 and Water Injection ECO 150) are compact, easily transportable and especially cost-efficient, have low fuel-consumption an
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday debuted its “Engineering with Nature” atlas to the public at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. “The projects presented and considered in this atlas use an Engineering With Nature lens as a means of revealing the use of nature-based approaches