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Marker Wadden conference in October
An international conference about Marker Wadden will take place in Amsterdam on October 12-14, 2022. Marker Wadden is an archipelago of nature islands in the centre of the Netherlands, created with excess sediment from the bottom of the lake. This project is a good example of the Building with Natur
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Trimble equipment proves success at Port of Kalama
Located 30 miles northwest of Portland, Oregon, the Port of Kalama sits on the Columbia River. The port’s industrial area includes five miles of riverfront property adjacent to the 43-foot federally maintained deep draft navigation channel of the Columbia River. Handling well over 13 million metric
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New pinch ball joint by Straatman PHOTO
Another important piece of dredging equipment is leaving the Straatman BV factory. This female part of a pinch ball joint, engineered and manufactured at their own factory in Zwijndrecht, has an inner diameter of Ø1000 mm and a maximum working pressure of 28 bar. Pinch ball joints are used on cutter
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Van Oord: Christening of LNG TSHD Vox Ariane
Van Oord unveiled the latest addition to its dredging fleet today. The Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s first trailing suction hopper dredger equipped with an LNG fuel system, was christened by its CFO and member of the Executive Committee Ms. Jolanda Poots-Bijl. The TSHD has a hopper capacity of approximatel
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Siport21: Massive simulations for dimensioning navigation channels
Siport21 has presented at the 16th Spanish Coastal and Port Engineering Conference an applied methodology based on massive simulations for the dimensioning of navigation channels, risk assessment, and maritime accidents analysis. This methodology has been used to analyze the access of a larger vesse
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New HID dredger launched in Ningbo
A new HID 3-in-1 dredging vessel was launched in the City of Ningbo today. According to the Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, this piece of machinery has the function of mud dredging, flocculation and solidification – the HID’s patent product. A strong power system and electri
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Blue Forest, Van Oord develop mangrove based engineering solutions
Blue Forest has entered into a partnership with Van Oord, a Dutch maritime services specialist, to develop mangrove based engineering solutions that enhance coastal resilience. Phase 1 involves designing coastal defense systems for two coastal communities in Mozambique. “The project will showcase ho
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Looking back at some of the winners of IADC Young Author Award
The special jubilee issue of IADC’s Terra et Aqua, which was celebrated at the WODCON XXIII conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, included an interesting article about the Young Author Award winners. The article presented the winner of IADC’s Young Author Award 2021, as well as some of the past winners
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Dredge Yard, Lagersmit sign Liquidyne deal
Dredge Yard and Lagersmit have signed a deal for the supply of the Liquidyne pump shaft seals for the dredge pumps. Also, they inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for further integration of Lagersmit’s sealing solutions into the cutter suction dredgers series of Dredge Yard. “Dredge Yard deliv
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Bakker upgrades Boskalis’ CSD Taurus II
Bakker Sliedrecht has upgraded Boskalis’ cutter suction dredger (CSD) Taurus II by increasing the vessel’s booster capacity. According to Bakker, by increasing capacity of the dredge pumps from 6000 to 7400 kilowatts, the Taurus II now can pump dredge material over greater distances from the station
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WEDA’s Sea Level Rise webinar this Thursday
The Western Dredging Association has announced the time and date of WEDA’s next webinar that will deal with the topic of sea level rise. Their next webinar: ‘Contextualizing Sea Level Rise presented by WEDA’s fellow Kendall Brome’ will take place on Thursday, May 26, 2022, at noon EST. Part one of t
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Four ways to save deltas from sea level rise
River deltas are drowning in the face of rapidly rising sea-levels. To keep up with sea-level rise, delta land needs to be raised with sand and mud from rivers. But sand and mud supply from rivers is decreasing globally, and doesn’t make it to deltas anymore which causes flooding and land loss. Utre
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Suman Sapkota wins the IADC Young Author Award
IADC bestowed the Young Author Award 2022 to Suman Sapkota, Research, Development and Innovation Engineer at Damen Dredging Equipment. The Young Author Award is given annually to “stimulate the promotion of new ideas and encourage younger men and women in the dredging industry”. The award is granted
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Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head presented
Italdraghe has just launched a new concept of Dredging Head: Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head. This new piece of dredging equipment will be sent to Vietnam this week. “Our customer from Vietnam was involved in a dredging work on a seabed with corals and rocks.Italdraghe team worked hard to meet their c