In March, Royal IHC announced two hopper dredge contracts for Van Oord and National Marine Dredging Company. The contract for Van Oord includes the design and delivery of the complete… Read More
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Royal IHC has signed a contract with National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC, based in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.) to build another trailing suction hopper dredge. The new vessel will join the… Read More
Caterpillar Marine has introduced the Advanced Variable Drive (AVD™), a fully-integrated hydro-mechanical propulsion system that can be customized for any engine application large or small, including dredges, auxiliary vessels and… Read More
On November 13, the pipeline task force of the Council for Dredging & Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) met to review progress on developing pipeline safety work practices, increasing public awareness… Read More
In 2015, Canada Pump and Power developed two patents for an autonomous dredging system. Since 2017, the Mighty Dredge has been at work on four projects in settling, cooling and… Read More
Dredging is more than simply lifting sediment out of the water and moving it to somewhere else. This was once again obvious on November 19 and 20 in Amsterdam, the… Read More
There are 6,800 acres of new marshland bordering the Passes of the Mississippi River – land that was created starting in 2011 by a coalition intent on stopping the loss… Read More
In July, Boskalis began using the SediMeter™ by Lindorm Inc. of Miami on two separate projects. The sediment monitoring system has been deployed at Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, at an… Read More
“We’ve been working on this for quite some time, and it’s all coming together in one week,” Alan Craig said on August 15, following the announcement that his company, Survey… Read More
A consortium made up of Boskalis and DEME Group’s Dredging International N.V. may finish phase 1 of a dredging project at Martín García channel ahead of time by year-end. “Due… Read More
