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Piriou builds hydrogen fuel cell dredger for Occitanie
Piriou, involved in shipbuilding, repair, naval engineering and services since 1965, has just received an order from the South France Occitanie Region for a 70m dredging vessel. According to the shipbuilder, the dredger will maintain the harbours in the Gulf of Lion. Designed in collaboration with L
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Rohr-Idreco raises the bar with iBoat
Earlier this week, Rohr-Idreco presented the zero emission iBoat to their product line. “As with many dredgers in the Rohr-Idreco portfolio, the workboat is designed to be ‘containerized’, allowing it to be conveniently transported worldwide in 40-foot containers and reassembled quickly and easily o
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Suez Canal Authority VIDEO: Refloating the Ever Given
Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has released this amazing video about the salvage operations of the Panamanian flagged container ship Ever Given. For the refloating of the 224,000-ton container vessel, approximately 30,000 cubic meters of sand was dredged to help free the vessel and a total of eleven har
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Maintaining Brazilian ports with water injection dredgers
Van Oord is a global leader in water injection dredging – a technique that removes sediment using natural processes, maintaining the depth of navigation channels, ports and rivers in an efficient and environmentally friendly way. With exceptional manoeuvrability, a water injection dredger can work i
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Meeting on Townsville Port Channel Upgrade tomorrow
The Port of Townsville said that the Independent Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) will meet this week to discuss the Channel Upgrade Project. The public update will be held online on Wednesday, 9 June, from 1.30pm to 3pm. The ITAC members have diverse technical backgrounds and all are recognized
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Plan unveiled for Maldives Floating City
The atoll nation of Maldives is making an innovative floating city that mitigates the effects of climate change and stays on top of rising sea levels. The Maldives Floating City Project was launched in March, in presence of Former President and Speaker of Parliament Hon. Mr. Mohamed Nasheed, Ministe
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Van der Leun control system for CSD Delaware
Van der Leun North America has successfully integrated electrical installation and control system of the idler barge on the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Delaware. With a tablet, their customer now can control and monitor the idler barge remotely from the whole dredge. “In the realisation of your new
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Julong delivers electric CSD to Europe
Julong Environment Technology has successfully delivery one set full electric 14/12” cutter suction dredger (CSD300E) to a contractor from the European Union. According to Julong, the CSD already started the sand mining operations. The dredger is fully controlled by Simens PLC control system. The dr
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Dredging in the Avon Valley VIDEO
Apex Envirocare has just released this amazing video named ‘Dredging in the Avon Valley’. Comprising a collection of towns such as Northam, New Norcia, Toodyay and York, the Avon Valley is home to many unique communities. Communities that over the past decade have steadily grown with the emergence o
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Damen: Two electrical booster stations for Johann Bunte
Damen has successfully delivered two electrically powered booster stations to the German dredging contractor Johann Bunte Bauunternehmung GmbH & Co. KG. The zero emission high efficiency drive of the boosters marks an important step in the energy transition, going from diesel to green power. Accordi
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Project 11 Dredging Industry Day set for next week
Port Houston’s virtual Project 11 Dredging Industry Day will take place on Wednesday, May 26, at 2:00 p.m. CDT via Zoom Webinar. The event will deliver an industry-wide update for the upcoming Houston Ship Channel Improvement Project, also known as Project 11, and address opportunities to support fu
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Study: Grazing management of salt marshes contributes to coastal defense
People around the world live in coastal areas that are prone to flooding. Dikes provide traditional flood protection for coastal defense purposes. In addition, salt marshes bordering these traditional barriers may strongly contribute to coastal protection by reducing wave forces on dikes. Hence, com
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Royal IHC Annual Figures: Recovery in sight
Royal IHC has just released their Annual Figures 2020, saying that the first half of 2020 for the company was dominated by refinancing and recapitalisation, and a transition to new shareholders. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on order intakes throughout 2020 and the possibilities of workin
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DLNR: Emergency coral rescue underway
In an effort to salvage highly valuable corals severely damaged in Honolulu Harbor’s channel, the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) has taken emergency action to recover as many living pieces as possible. The damage took place two weeks ago and was caused by a dredging platform’s anchor and c