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Year round coastal protection
Over the years, Boskalis has been involved in maintaining and reinforcing much of the Dutch coast with a significant number of trailing suction hopper dredgers. The North Sea beaches of the Netherlands are maintained with some 12 million cubic meters of sand every year. Other countries bordering the
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Jan De Nul’s Willem Van Rubroeck working its way in the Port of Suape
Jan De Nul Group is working on another historic project in Brazil – deepening of the Port of Suape. According to the Ministério de Portos e Aeroportos, the last stage of dredging works for the Complexo Industrial Portuário de Suape has begun and the work is being carried out by one of the world’s la
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Jenkins Marine unveils busy winter schedule
Jenkins Marine is gearing up for another busy winter season with their dredging vessels, including backhoe dredger ‘Doreen Dorward‘ and split hopper barges ’Nab’ and ‘Needles’, already booked for the coming months. This season, the company will be performing maintenance dredging works in Poole, Sout
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Dredge Illinois pumping sand in Ocean City, NJ
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company has towed the Dredge Illinois into place off Corson’s Inlet to start pumping sand for the south-end beach replenishment project. Overall, the contractor will pump 257,000 cubic yards of sand onto Ocean City beaches between 45th Street and 59th Street over the next
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Dutch Dredging working in French Guiana (VIDEO)
Baggerbedrijf De Boer – Dutch Dredging recently released a video of the Water and/or Air Injection Dredger (WID) ‘Delta Queen II’ working in French Guiana. The beautiful drone video was made by colleague Nander Kleen during the “Maintenance dredging and towing services in Cayenne and Kourou”. Dégrad
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Creating sand causeway in Bahrain by Boskalis
Boskalis and Bahrain have been closely linked since the early 1980s. The company has participated in almost every medium and large land reclamation project in the kingdom since that period. The result: Boskalis dredging vessels have been continuously active in Bahrain for some forty years. An import
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Van Oord’s Vox Amalia departs the Fehmarnbelt project area
State-of-the-art hopper dredger Vox Amalia has completed its share of work on one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel. This impressive giant, part of Van Oord’s new generation of trailing suction hopper dredgers with a focus on energy efficiency for the smallest poss
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Stockton Beach gets new sand
NSW Government has just delivered phase one of the Stockton Beach nourishment project with approximately 130,000 cubic meters of sand placed onto the beach. “Stockton Beach just got a fresh delivery of sand – enough to fill 52 Olympic-size swimming pools,” the government said in the update. “This is
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Dredger Ursa receiving final touches before trials and delivery
Finnish shipbuilding company Työvene recently held a launching ceremony for the trailer suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ursa. She has now been moved to the outfitting quay where the production will continue towards trials and delivery mid next year. The dredger, being built for the Poland’s Maritime A
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IHC showroom devoted to the incredible 60 years of Beaver dredgers
To celebrate 60 incredible years of Beaver cutter suction dredgers, Royal IHC has set up a temporary ‘showroom’ at the company’s production facility in Kinderdijk. Not only does it feature the iconic Beaver 30 CSD, it also showed many other products that are part of the integrated Beaver solution, s
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Hopper dredger Elbe working in Puerto Caldera (PHOTO)
Trailing suction hopper dredger Elbe, mainly active in the Caribbean and South America, recently completed an interesting project in Costa Rica – dredging of the Caldera Port. Working for the client, Sociedad Portuaria Granelera de Caldera (SPGC), Dutch Dredging completed maintenance dredging of the
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Kenmare places order for two IHC mining dredgers
IHC Mining has secured order from Kenmare Resources for the construction and delivery of two large customised mining dredgers. The dredgers – both to be built at Royal IHC’s yard in Kinderdijk (Netherlands) – will each have a total installed power of 6,800 kVA and a cutter power of 1,350 kW. As they
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Damen: Another batch of cutter suction dredgers delivered to SEMAR
In the harbour of Veracruz, Mexico, three Damen Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSD) were commissioned by the Mexican Secretary of the Navy (Secretaría de Marina, SEMAR). The dredgers – built in the Netherlands by Damen Dredging Equipment (DDE) – have been acquired as part of a fleet expansion program, and
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Autonomous dredging requires less energy than the conventional one
Dredging is a necessary but energy consuming activity. Since especially highly populated countries like the Netherlands are located along the coastline with much of their land mass below NAP, dredging is required to combat the expected rise of sea levels due to climate change. C-Job Naval Architects