In August DSC Dredge delivered a 24-inch (600 mm) Marlin Class dredge to Ikorodu Lagos Nigeria. The dredge will be used for sand mining. The dredge features two dredge pumps… Read More
Author: International Dredging Review
In late August 2017 at the Uljanik Shipyard in Croatia Jan De Nul released the self-propelled cutter suction dredge Willem van Rubroeck into the water. The delivery of the vessel… Read More
On September 28 the Central Dredging Association held a meeting was at the Damen Dredging Equipment’s (DDE) yard in Nijkerk the Netherlands. The focus of the event was on small… Read More
In October the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District announced that Cat Island in Mississippi has been nearly restored to its 1990s shoreline. The shoreline restoration will reduce hurricane… Read More
By Marsha Cohen Safety in the dredging industry has drawn continually more attention in the last decade and companies worldwide have instituted systems to increase worker safety. Compliance with safety… Read More
In September PIANC issued an abridged field version to its 2015 publication “Classification of Soils and Rocks for the Maritime Dredging Process.” In November 2015 PIANC MarCom issued the comprehensive… Read More
By Anna Townshend In October the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) an executive agency of the U.K. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) published a… Read More
This project was a contender for the Dredging for Navigation environmental award at the Western Dredging Association 2017 Annual Meeting. By Judith Powers The Port of Long Beach coordinated its… Read More
Six months ago President Trump made a pledge to fund a $1 trillion infrastructure program to address our aging infrastructure needs. It remains a hot topic but has taken a… Read More
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has signed a contract with Royal IHC for the design and construction of two custom-built 29190 kW heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredgers (CSDs). The vessels… Read More
