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TSHD Scheldt River completes first five-year docking
DEME Group’s pioneering dual fuel trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River has just completed its first five-year docking. “Thanks to this wonderful DEME docking and vessel team at the BLRT Repair Yard (BLRT Grupp) in Klaipeda, it is now in top form again, ready to tackle the next assign
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ECOncrete and Etermar raise the bar in Portugal
ECOncrete and Etermar have announced a successful deployment of the first ‘blue’ Tetrapods at the Port of Leixões in Portugal. According to their official statement, Etermar S.A. used ECOncrete technology to take these classic concrete coastal protection units to the next level. As part of a pilot p
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Damen delivers complete equipment package for ENDAM
Damen Shipyards has delivered a complete equipment package for the multipurpose vessel ENDAM. Owned by the Korean Marine Environment Management Corporation (KOEM), the newbuild combines emergency oil spill recovery activities with maintenance dredging tasks. With a 4,100 m3 hopper hold, the vessel w
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Arctic Canadian, Royal IHC move URM development into next phase
Arctic Canadian Diamond Company and IHC Mining have reached the next important milestone in the development of the underwater remote mining (URM) system for the extraction of diamond-bearing kimberlite ore from deep open pits at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Arctic C
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Rijkswaterstaat delegation visits USACE Galveston
The USACE Galveston District and non-federal partners Texas General Land Office, together with Gulf Coast Protection District hosted some very special visitors last week. The USACE Southwestern Division Commander, Col. Kenneth Reed, and Galveston District Commander, Col. Rhett Blackmon, gave a short
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Dredge Miss Katie arriving in Dare County VIDEO
Dare County, in partnership with EJE Dredging Service, has announced that Miss Katie – the shallow-draft hopper dredge that has been under construction in Morgan City, Louisiana, since March 2021 – has officially arrived on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Miss Katie departed from Conrad Shipyard
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Removing sediment at ‘North of Porto’
Royal Smals dredging crews are currently busy in Portugal. In cooperation with professional partners and authorities, Smals Dredging is executing challenging maintenance dredging works at ‘North of Porto’. “The entrance of a shallow tidal harbour with heavy currents is being desilted and with the se
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Fairport Harbor dredging program moves ahead
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, is working on the Grand River in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Together with its contractor Ryba Marine Construction Company, they are dredging the harbor to provide ease of navigation and safe passage for large vessels carrying products vital to the econ
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Van Oord’s LNG TSHD Vox Ariane busy on Elbe
Improving the maritime infrastructure – that is exactly what Van Oord crews do at the river Elbe in Germany. Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and the global economy. To keep the German waterway at the right depth, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vax Ariane
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ERDC, USACE release dredged material guidance manual
Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Great Lakes Districts – Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago – recently released a technical report which provides guidance for evaluating the environmental su
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Portland Port invests £26M in berth development
Portland Port is embarking on its largest and most ambitious improvement project to date, investing £26 million in a major berth development. The port has applied for, and had approved, all the necessary permissions to carry out the project. The development will see the existing Deep Water Berth (DW
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Damen Shipyards Group announces new CSD range
Damen Shipyards Group has unveiled a comprehensive new design for its Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) range. First introduced in 2004, more than 250 of the current range have been sold to customers around the world and over that time the designs have been continuously improved. However, last year the d
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Ghassara dredging program underway
Infrastructure Malta has officially started a cleanup project next to Ghassara Wharf in Marsa with an investment of €7 million. This work is part of dredging work in several areas of the port to clean mooring facilities and even remove contaminated material from the bottom of the sea. As a result of
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Jan De Nul opts for Iridium GMDSS
Jan De Nul Group has become the latest fleet to select Iridium’s Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) solution. “Jan De Nul plans to roll out Iridium GMDSS in all retrofits and newly built vessels,” said Nils Crabeel, Communication & Network Officer, Jan De Nul Group. “Having LRIT and