On June 10 the Kieldrecht Lock at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium was officially opened by His Majesty the King of Belgium. Other digni-taries present were Ben Weyts the… Read More
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On June 16 Johan Dolman and Ron Dielhof stood on the Miami Hyatt Regency patio near the location of the symbolic “last scoop” of the Miami River clean-up project taken… Read More
A student with one of the displays in the poster session. On July 10 to 13 environmental scientists and engineers gathered in Montreal for the Fifth International Symposium on Sediment… Read More
Sand replenishment work taking place on Rockaway Beach New York. This beach had no dunes and was totally inundated with water after Hurricane Sandy. Photo credit: USACE. After analyzing the… Read More
The Scheldt River a 10500 cubic yard (8000 cubic meter) Antigoon Class hopper dredge under construction at Royal IHC will be fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The DEME Group… Read More
Dredging International a subsidiary of Belgium’s DEME Group and the South Korean company Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. have started construction work on Singapore’s new container port at Tuas. The kick-off… Read More
At the end of July Van Oord dredging and marine specialists head-quartered in Rotterdam the Netherlands reached an agreement on the acquisition of the offshore wind activities of Bilfinger Marine… Read More
Dravo S.A. the Spanish subsidiary of Van Oord headquartered in the Netherlands has recently been awarded a number of long-term beach maintenance contracts. Beach replenishments in Barcelona and La Pineda… Read More
Earlier in the year Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announced that it intended to execute a fleet rationalization study. The study was initiated in light of the deteriorating market conditions… Read More
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) announced in mid-July that Baggerbedrijf De Boer B.V. (Dutch Dredging B.V.) had joined the organization as a main member. Baggerbedrijf de Boer/ Dutch Dredging… Read More
