Van Oord has ordered two trailing suction hopper dredgers with a hopper volume of approximately 17,000 m3. Spanish shipbuilder Construcciones Navales del Norte S.L. (LaNaval) will build the ships at its yard in Bilbao. Both vessels will be delivered in 2017. The dredgers will have a hopper capacity
One of the world’s largest non self-propelled cutter dredger vessels, which is also one of the largest of all cutter dredgers in the world with 5200 kW of cutter power, will feature Wärtsilä engines, both to generate power and to drive the dredging pump. The ship has been designed by the Design & Re
Acta Marine’s DP1 Multicat ‘Coastal Chariot’ has successfully finished two cone penetration testing (C.P.T.) projects in the UK and Germany. Coastal Chariot assisted a well-known geophysical services company in Liverpool waters and she has assisted a Swedish survey company in German waters. C.P.T. p
MarineCo UK has contracted Damen Shipyards Group for a Multi Cat 2712. The vessel will be delivered in April 2015. Mr. Mike Conafray, Managing Director at MarineCo stated that “after a long evaluation, with alternative builders, Damen came through with the right vessel at the right cost, the new ves
Russian shipbuilder, Krasnoye Sormovo (Zavod Krasnoe Sormovo), held a keel-laying ceremony for two 1000 cbm trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) on December 23rd in Nizhny Novgorod. Deputy General Director for Fleet of FSUE “Rosmorport” Sergey Kurov, Head of Fleet Development and Construction De
Royal IHC (IHC), one of the global market leaders for efficient dredging and mining vessels and equipment, is about to bring to an end a very successful year. Thanks to the company’s in-house expertise for engineering and manufacturing integrated standard and custom-built vessels, IHC managed to sec
Jan De Nul Group’s new multipurpose vessel Isaac Newton, currently under construction in Pula, will be delivered mid-2015, the company announced on its official facebook page. A group of Belgian students recently paid a visit to the shipyard and witnessed the construction process. Hereby we are brin
Empresa Portuaria Nacional (EPN), the Nicaraguan port authority, is all set to take delivery of two newbuilds from Damen Shipyards Group. To meet the client’s requirements, Damen has executed a swift, efficient turnaround of the order. The vessels, a Damen Stan Tug 2608 and a Cutter Suction Dredger
Cavache Inc., one of the leading companies in dredging industry, is using an Ellicott 1170 dredge to perform the 40ft. maintenance dredging project for Manatee Harbor. Since the works began some two months ago, the 2010 Maya Caelyn is dredging the entrance channel, turning basin and berthing areas i
Three months after its last delivery, Fugro has received the third of a series of three Fugro Offshore Coastal Survey Vessels (FOCSV) being built by Damen on December 12th 2014. Like her sisters, Fugro Frontier is a compact, diesel-electric FOCSV designed for a variety of tasks. However, Fugro Front
Dredging works to remove about 3.000.000 m3 of material from Piombino Harbor are currently underway. These works, undertaken by DEME Group, are included in the project for the realization of facilities and environmental interventions aimed to the improvement and the industrial competitiveness of the
Damen Shipyards Group, together with its website partner Evident, has won the ‘Benelux Sitecore Experience Award 2014’ in the category of ‘Business Transformation’. This prize is awarded to the best Sitecore solution, meaning a solution which generates measurable, effective business results and a ve
The New Suez Canal dredging project is progressing very well. Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chief Mohab Mamish recently hailed efforts exerted by the workers of the project and the progress they made so far. This development project is designed to enlarge the transit capacity and to increase industrial
APT Global Marine Services recently successfully dry-docked both cutter suction dredger HAM 218 as well as water injection dredger Iguazú for the Van Oord Ship Management B.V. at DMC Dubai. With these 2 dry-dockings completed (HAM 218 being the first large cutter suction dredger to ever dry dock wit