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Dutch Dredgers and Dekker Groep develop new dredging vessel
For sand and gravel companies, opening new extraction sites is becoming increasingly difficult due to regulations and environmental challenges. As a result, the industry is looking deeper—literally. At Dutch Dredgers — the company specialized in high-quality dredgers, dredging equipment, and pontoon
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Wärtsilä and NMDC ink lifecycle agreement for seven dredgers
Technology group Wärtsilä and NMDC Group, one of the largest dredging and marine contractors in the Middle East, have signed a five-year Lifecycle Agreement for seven NMDC dredgers. The agreement, with the potential to expand the scope to additional vessels in the future, includes a tailor-made main
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Neptune’s Gator 50 completes dredging trails
Neptune Marine has just completed dredging trials of the new Tier III stage V certified Gator 50 cutter suction dredger. With an innovative and premium design, the Gator 50 leads the new generation of dredgers that go further. Designed for high productivity, the dredger incorporates the best equipme
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Tiamat reduces carbon emissions and costs (VIDEO)
Haven Dredging has just released a new video about their ground-breaking hydrodynamic dredging technology, the Tiamat. The video was filmed at Harwich Haven Authority, where Tiamat has successfully transitioned from groundbreaking trials to a vital part of its annual dredging operations. Following a
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Jan De Nul VIDEO: Working principles of backhoe dredger
Jan De Nul has released a beautiful video named ‘Working principles of a Backhoe Dredger’. A backhoe dredger is a pontoon which is equipped with a hydraulic excavator that excavates the soil and discharges it into a split hopper barge. This crane pontoon is equipped with a hydraulic excavator. Three
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Jan De Nul VIDEO: Working principles of trailing suction hopper dredger
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger’. A trailing suction hopper dredger dredges loose material and soft soils such as sand, gravel, sludge or clay. One or two suction pipes are lowered on the seabed and the drag head is trai
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Jan De Nul VIDEO: Working principles of cutter suction dredger
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Cutter Suction Dredger’. A cutter suction dredger cuts hard soil into fragments with a rotating cutter head. The material is sucked up by dredge pumps and discharged to a deposit area through pipelines across sea and lan
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Liebherr excavators working on the Danube
Two Liebherr crawler excavators were used recently to remove around 80,000 tonnes of gravel from the Danube River. The deployment of the machines was necessary to ensure the “flow” of the Danube along this section, thus contributing to flood prevention in the nearby city center of Ulm. The Liebherr
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Watermaster amphibious dredger restoring vital river in China
X i’an, the historic capital in the northwest of China, has been a city with abundant water resources and its development has been closely related to the superior water environment. While the city’s scale expanded, the population boomed and industrialization advanced, the flowrate of rivers and lake
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Royal IHC: Finding the right Energy Management System for dredging vessels
Finding the right Energy Management System (EMS) to support on-board electrification is one of the key challenges in the transition to electric power on dredging vessels. Demanding dredging operations present unique challenges for integrating an EMS. Royal IHC is conducting a thorough exploration of
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One week to go: 400+ exhibitors from offshore energy industry to gather in Amsterdam
The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of Dredging Today and organizer of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC). More than 400 exhibitors and co-exhibitors booked their spots at OEEC 2024 Businesses and organizations from across the offshore energy sector and
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Position control systems in shallow water dredging operations
Positek – specialized in high performance sensors for dredging and subsea applications – has published a blog post on the optimization of position control in shallow water dredging operations. In marine and freshwater environments, shallow water dredging is a process used to remove sediment, debris,
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The next generation of cutter suction dredgers by Damen (VIDEO)
Damen Shipyards recently presented the first type of the next generation of Cutter Suction Dredgers – the CSD600. The new series builds on the success of the old, with significant lessons learned, and faces the future with improved safety, sustainability and efficiency. The CSD600 is capable of dred
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Mission Master – the next phase in autonomous dredging (VIDEO)
Royal IHC recently introduced a high-level control system Mission Master – making a major step towards increased autonomy and operational efficiency for trailing suction hopper dredgers. Mission Master provides a semi-autonomous workflow that integrates seamlessly with existing automation systems. C