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Spotlight on bio-engineering sediment management
At Deltares in the Netherlands, a research team is developing a portfolio of technologies dedicated to the management of the finest and most challenging fraction of soft sediments. These technologies may unambiguously be called nature based because they make use of natural processes to enhance dewat
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Damen CSD500 Lucio busy on Río Salado
Damen has just released these amazing pictures taken by the Servimagnus crew on board of CSD500 Lucio. They are working in the Buenos Aires province on the Río Salado maintenance dredging project. With a production of 4.000 m3/h and a max dredging depth of -14m, the powerful dredger is a perfect cho
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Duplantis Design Group to design Coastal Center
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Nicholls State University have announced that Duplantis Design Group has been hired to design the Coastal Center. This announcement officially sets in motion the facility formation phase of the $14.5 million project. Announced in
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Innovations in Dredging set for February 26
WEDA’s next webinar – Innovations in Dredging – will take place on Friday, February 26, 2021, from 11 AM to noon EST. The Innovations in Dredging Webinar will feature two presentations by Aiden Horan, the Vice President Of Engineering & Innovation, J. Cashman, Inc., and Xiuhan Chen, the Vice Presid
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Foyle and Marine opts for Rammer
Foyle and Marine Dredging Ltd last week took delivery of a Rammer 5011E, Rock Hammer, for use on the dredgers Dinopotes and Aoibheann. This state of the art rock hammer offers the latest in the rock breaking technology with innovative features that prevent damage to the hammer and loss of production
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Jan De Nul: Protecting the biodiversity in Benin
Jan De Nul has just released this amazing photo from their project in Benin. Dredging is like art, said Jan De Nul. The art of shaping water and land. It’s more than dredging. In every project, protecting the biodiversity in the working area is paramount. “We therefore depart to the maximum extent p
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Jan De Nul dredgers 1st to receive new Bureau Veritas ultra-low emissions notation
Jan De Nul Group’s newest trailing suction hopper dredgers – SANDERUS, ORTELIUS, TRISTÃO DA CUHNA, AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, and DIOGO CÃO – are the first ships to receive the new notation of Bureau Veritas (BV) that recognizes the performance of ultra-low emission vessels (ULEVs). These JDN vessels ar
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Autonomous dredgers on the horizon
Royal IHC is actively contributing to the development of autonomy within the maritime industry. This is explained in the latest blog about the development of autonomous trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) by Jeroen van Stappen. In his blog he explains Royal IHC’s aims to create a system that in
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HR Wallingford to hold dredging management course
HR Wallingford announced recently that their four-day dredging management online course will take place this February. According to the company, this online course will provide an overview of the environmental aspects of dredging, the latest technology and equipment that apply to dredging and the ma
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Van Oord’s Vox Ariane hits the water
Van Oord’s brand new trailing suction hopper dredger – the Vox Ariane – was successfully launched at Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore today. The vessel is the first of three new hoppers and will boost the mid-class section of Van Oord’s fleet of trailing suction hopper dredgers. This
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Sea trials of CSD Mohab Mameesh VIDEO
Royal IHC has just released this amazing video of the CSD Mohab Mameesh undergoing her sea trials near the Dutch coast in the North Sea. During the sea trials, multiple installations have successfully been tested. “Now we are going into the final phase of the building process, finalizing the vessel
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Using dredged material to create bricks, concrete barriers
Dredging is the removal of sediments that build up in shipping channels – a critical process for providing safe passage for ships that travel the channels. Approximately 150 nautical miles of channels run through the Chesapeake Bay, Patapsco River and Baltimore Harbor. On average, 4.7 million cubic
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Spotlight on Environmental Information Synthesizer for Expert Systems
Large-scale coastal dredging projects have the potential to add significant stress to coral reef, communities in surrounding areas, especially if impacts are undetected or fail to be detected in time. Therefore, extensive monitoring is needed at a timely scale, relevant to allow adaptive management
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Van Oord launches Climate Risk Overview
Van Oord has launched the Climate Risk Overview, a global online tool that combines multiple data layers and enables users to identify the world’s most-at-risk coastal areas. The tool is in the public domain and anyone can use it. Van Oord unveiled the new tool during the international Climate Adapt