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TSHD Modi R wrapping up Fremantle dredging works
Fremantle Ports announced today that the hopper dredge Modi R is putting finishing touches on the Port Beach Sand Nourishment project. “Today, the final push was on, to deposit sand on to Fremantle’s Port Beach, as the the dredge Modi R rainbowed a sand and water slurry, to ensure a wide and pleasan
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Another Ellicott 670 Dragon Dredge almost ready for action
Ellicott has just announced that the company will soon deliver a versatile Series 670 Dragon cutterhead suction dredge to a client in Maine. The dredge – being funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, which was awarded to the York County Government – will be ready for delivery in May of 2023, the com
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Court approves deal on Royal IHC financial restructuring
Royal IHC – a major player in the Dutch maritime manufacturing industry – has reached agreement on financial restructuring. Like most companies in this sector, IHC has recently had to deal with the effects of the international COVID crisis and geopolitical developments. Both have had a major impact
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Rohde Nielsen wraps up Poland dredging gig
Rohde Nielsen recently completed major capital and maintenance dredging project in Gdansk North Port for the client Gdynia Port Authority. The project – related to the construction of a new deep-sea outer harbor – included deepening of the port entrance and turning circle, which was split into vario
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Electric dredgers at Gelado project in Brazil
Vale has started commissioning the Gelado Project in Carajás, in the state of Pará (Brazil), using 100% electric dredgers that will extract tailings deposited over the last 37 years. The commissioning phase, in which performance and capacity tests with loading are being carried out, should last unti
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Kooiman hands over new dredger Hegemann V
Kooiman Marine Group has successfully handed over the new 75.9-meter trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Hegemann V to her owner Hegemann Dredging in Germany. According to Kooiman, the Hegemann V left the yard in Zwijndrecht and was delivered last Wednesday. The newbuild is a multi-purpose traili
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Hopper dredge Viking R working in Bunbury
Another round of maintenance dredging works in Bunbury is underway, according to the Department of Transport, Western Australia. Dredging, which kicked off last week, is expected to continue until mid-March. Over the course of the project, the contractor will dredge the main shipping channel and Out
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Rohde Nielsen finishes dredging project in Cabinda, Angola
Rohde Nielsen has successfully completed another major dredging project, this time for the client SETH in Cabinda, Angola. With its constrained connections to other cities, Cabinda has limited economic development. Rohde Nielsen was awarded a contract that included capital dredging of the port and a
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Glosten presents new cutter suction dredge design
Glosten, a full-service naval architecture and marine engineering consultancy firm, recently presented a new cutter suction dredge design with the ability to operate at shallow drafts. This medium-sized dredge is part of a new generation of inland and coastal work vessels capable of running on alter
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A record-breaking season for Dredge Hurley
The Memphis District’s Dredge Hurley returned to its home port, Ensley Engineer Yard, in Memphis Harbor, on Jan. 13, 2023, after finishing a record-breaking 273-day season, which began Apr. 26, 2022. In eight and a half months, the 36-person crew dredged 14.5 million cubic yards of sediment, which i
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Bassett completes fabrication of 90,000-pound mining dredge for Ellicott
As a provider of customized metal fabricating, Bassett Mechanical was recently contracted by Ellicott Dredges to fabricate a 90,000-pound mining dredge. According to the company, Ellicott approached Bassett and was looking for a metal fabrication contractor that could build a large stainless steel m
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PHOTO: Dredge CURRITUCK floats again
Over the past few months, excellent progress has been made on the overhaul of the hopper dredge CURRITUCK, which is currently getting a $9.6 million makeover at Memphis District’s Ensley Engineer Yard. Earlier this week, the Ensley crew moved the CURRITUCK off the drydock so they could move on to th
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Royal IHC opts for Bachmann technology
Royal IHC recently decided to use Bachmann hardware and software on its standardized Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers. The Easydredge is IHC’s range of smaller-sized TSHDs, with hopper capacities from 500 up to 4000 cubic metres. For larger hopper capacities, Royal IHC directs its clients to its Bea
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Miss Katie wraps up Hatteras Inlet dredging project
The 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge ‘Miss Katie’ completed a 10-day dredging project in Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Miss Katie began dredging Hatteras Inlet on Friday, January 27, 2023, and, upon completion of the project on Sunday, February 5, 2023, she had successfully dr