Royal IHC has just released this beautiful photo of their IHC Beaver 1200C, recently commissioned at a customer site in Congo. “We provided the assistance needed to get the cutter suction dredger (CSD) operational, including providing training for the new dredging crew,” the Dutch supplier of equipm
The Van Oord Innovation Challenge has come to a close, and out of more than one hundred submissions, Portuguese start-up Abyssal has claimed the prize. Abyssal specializes in the visualization and remote control of subsea operations using sensor data to deliver real-time 3D virtual overviews of the
Synergy Resource Management yesterday released a very interesting video about the progress on the Coomera Dredge Sediment Management Facility and its earthworks, construction, dredging and sediment processing operations. For many years, the Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA), City of Gold Coast C
For a dredging job in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, a Bell 250 dredging pump was used recently to create a gully in one place, and new land at another. Attached to a CAT 329 and a PVE600 hydraulic power pack, the pump worked off of a pontoon in an area with shallow water. The Bell […]
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just released a couple of very interesting photos from the ‘Widening and Deepening of the Suez Canal in the 1970s’ project. The first modern initiatives to improve the Suez Canal occurred in the 1950s. These improvements were followed by
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 19 – 25, 2018). Celebrating Van Oord’s 150th Anniversary Van Oord celebrated its 150th anniversary on Friday during an international symposium featuring top diplomat Christiana Figueres as guest speaker.
A partnership between PT Bahana Galang Jaya and Dutch Dredging Solutions (DDS) presented their modular dredging spread in the Premier Best Western Panbil hotel in Batam, Indonesia, on Saturday, 17 November, 2018. PT Bahana Galang Jaya found Dutch Dredging Solutions as a partner and expert to execute
For a contracting company in the Netherlands, Waterking recently produced pontoons to easily connect HDPE pipes and dredging hoses, located behind a dredger. The pipeline connection pontoons are designed with a lowering in the middle of the pontoons, to prevent the pipes from sliding. The equipment
MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply the engine for a new dredger in southern China. The MAN 9L48/60CR unit will power the newbuilding vessel currently under construction at Dongguan Xiandai Shipbuilding Co. for sister company, Dongguan Rundong Shipping Co., Ltd., which will produce sand
PaxOcean, a subsidiary of Kuok Singapore Limited, has won newbuilding contracts for the construction of a 2,300m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) and two 3,500m³ split hopper vessels for Royal IHC. The vessels, set to be constructed at PaxOcean Graha in Batam, Indonesia, are expected to be de
Royal IHC has been awarded the KNVTS Ship of the Year award for the 8,400m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) SCHELDT RIVER, designed and built for DEME. This year, the jury selected three nominees out of seven entries for the most prestigious maritime award. To be nominated, ships have to be d
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 5-11, 2018). Elbe Fairway Adjustment VIDEO With the building permit for the adaptation of the fairway obtained, the actual work to facilitate access to the Port of Hamburg can now begin. Dredging Under
DEME’s giant cutter suction dredger Spartacus has been successfully launched at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den Ijssel in the Netherlands. With a total installed capacity of 44,180 kW, Spartacus is simply the most powerful and environmental friendly cutter suction dredger (CSD) that has ev
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile District christened the Survey Vessel Damrell in a ceremony November 8, 2018 at the Cooper Riverside Park Amphitheater in Mobile, Ala. Col. Sebastien P. Joly, Mobile District Commander, presided over the ceremony to honor Col. Andrew N. Damrell. Among the spe