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  • Maintenance dredging underway at Sandringham Breakwater

    Maintenance dredging underway at Sandringham Breakwater

    Sandringham Yacht Club has just announced that maintenance dredging is being conducted at Sandringham Breakwater as part of Parks Victoria’s program to ensure safe boating access at key sites within the Port Phillip and Western Port. The works are taking place around the nort...
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  • TSHDs Modi R and Viking R busy in Western Australia dredging

    TSHDs Modi R and Viking R busy in Western Australia dredging

    Rohde Nielsen’s two trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) Modi R and Viking R are currently busy on a task in Western Australia. According to the Kastrup, Denmark, based dredging contractor, the TSHDs will first dredge shell sand in the offshore area Owen Anchorage and then...
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  • Damen CSD500 Dredger Yantra busy on Danube River

    Damen CSD500 Dredger Yantra busy on Danube River

    The Damen CSD500 Yantra is currently at work on the Danube River, doing continuous maintenance dredging operations. The dredger is deepening the river to the locally required inland transport water depth of -3m. The vessel’s home port is Ruse, Bulgaria, where the CSD is part...
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  • Fremantle Port Beach dredging works in full swing

    Fremantle Port Beach dredging works in full swing

    Rohde Nielsen has just released these amazing photos from the Fremantle Port Beach Sand Nourishment Program, Australia. The project will combat coastal erosion by depositing thousands of cubic metres of sand at Fremantle’s Port Beach. The work is being delivered as a partners...
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  • Dredge Potter kicks off its 90th dredging season

    Dredge Potter kicks off its 90th dredging season

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District’s Dredge Potter got underway last week from the St. Louis District’s Service base where it started it’s 90th dredging season. Carrying out the District’s mission of maintaining a nine-foot deep, 300-foot wide channel on 300 m...
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  • Wrapping up another dredging campaign at the Port of Weipa

    Wrapping up another dredging campaign at the Port of Weipa

    North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) has successfully completed another maintenance dredging campaign at the Port of Weipa. According to NQBP, the hopper dredge Brisbane has just left the Weipa after completing the 48-day program. The increase in the annual project d...
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  • Damen Delivers CSD500 Dredger To East Africa

    Damen Delivers CSD500 Dredger To East Africa

    The dredger will be transported to the site, a mining plant in Eastern Africa, just weeks after receiving the order. “As Damen we have been present in this region for over three decades,” Mr Hugo Doorenbos, Area Sales Manager, explains. “We know the specifics of our customers’...
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  • Damen delivers modular DOP Dredger to Mozambique

    Damen delivers modular DOP Dredger to Mozambique

    The dredger named Estoril was handed over to its owner in a special ceremony last week. Fitted out with a renowned Damen submersible DOP dredge pump, the modular dredger will be located at the Port of Beira, where it will be performing maintenance dredging duties to ensure acc...
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  • TSHD dredger Galileo Galilei kicks off massive beach expansion project in Brazil

    TSHD dredger Galileo Galilei kicks off massive beach expansion project in Brazil

    Jan De Nul Group has started work on another beach renourishment project in Brazil, this time in the City of Matinhos. After completing the beachfill scheme in Balneario Camboriu in 2021, last weekend the company began pumping sand onto eroded beaches of Matinhos. According to...
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  • Italdraghe delivers two dredgers to India

    Italdraghe delivers two dredgers to India

    The commissioning of the first of two Italdraghe 10” dredgers supplied to the Indian Government has just been completed. In the next few days, the assembly and commissioning of the remaining one will take place as well. Currently, Italdraghe technicians are on site, in order ...
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  • Weeks Marine’s new hopper dredger R.B. Weeks hits the water

    Weeks Marine’s new hopper dredger R.B. Weeks hits the water

    Eastern Shipbuilding Group yesterday held a christening and launching of the Weeks Marine latest hopper dredger – the R.B. Weeks. The dredger, measuring 356 feet long by 79.5 feet wide and with a draft of 27 feet 3 inches, is an identical vessel to the Magdalen that was deliv...
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  • Dredging works underway at Chelydra Beach

    Dredging works underway at Chelydra Beach

    The WA Department of Transport (DoT) announced recently that dredging works at Chelydra Beach (north of the Port Coogee marina) commenced in early June 2022 and will proceed until approximately mid July 2022. The works are being carried out by the 18m cutter suction dredge ‘Mu...
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  • TSHD dredger Krakesandt enters De Hoop fleet

    TSHD dredger Krakesandt enters De Hoop fleet

    De Hoop Terneuzen has taken delivery of the company’s newest trailing suction hopper dredger, the Krakesandt. According to the company, the Krakesandt got through the locks of Terneuzen in early June. The dredger stayed there for a few days before heading for its first assignm...
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  • TSHDs Rio and DC Ostend busy dredging in Port of Gdańsk

    TSHDs Rio and DC Ostend busy dredging in Port of Gdańsk

    DC Dredging B.V. has just released these beautiful photos of the trailing suction hopper dredgers Rio and DC Ostend working in the Port of Gdańsk. This dredging project is called ‘Improving access to the Port of Gdańsk – modernisation of fairway 2’. Within the framework of th...
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  • Jan De Nul’s WID Pancho ready for its maiden dredging project

    Jan De Nul’s WID Pancho ready for its maiden dredging project

    Jan De Nul’s new water injection dredger (WID) Pancho is currently in Latin America, getting ready for its first dredging task. “Thanks to an excellent cooperation between Jan De Nul Group and Neptune Marine, the water injection dredger Pancho has arrived in Argentina almost o...
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  • New Ellicott 1270 dredge hits the water

    New Ellicott 1270 dredge hits the water

    Ellicott Dredges LLC has just announced another successful dredge launch. The new 1270 dredge will operate near Salem, New Jersey, replacing a 16” Series 970 – operational since 1983. “The Ellicott 970 had provided the mine owner with many years of reliable service,” Ellicott...
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  • Milestone for the Fehmarnbelt project – Dredging halfway done

    Milestone for the Fehmarnbelt project – Dredging halfway done

    A great milestone has been reached in the construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark. The dredging of the trench needed to realize the 18-kilometer long immersed tunnel is halfway complete, according to Boskalis. As part of the joint venture FBC (Fehma...
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  • USACE completes Holland Harbor dredging

    USACE completes Holland Harbor dredging

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District completed Holland Harbor dredging in west Michigan last week. The dredge material is being used as beach nourishment to replenish beaches after erosion during recent high water levels on Lake Michigan. Approximately 31,000 cub...
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  • Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head presented

    Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head presented

    Italdraghe has just launched a new concept of Dredging Head: Italdraghe Rock Dredging Head. This new piece of dredging equipment will be sent to Vietnam this week. “Our customer from Vietnam was involved in a dredging work on a seabed with corals and rocks. Italdraghe team wor...
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  • Two DEME dredger giants at GEMAK facilities in Tuzla

    Two DEME dredger giants at GEMAK facilities in Tuzla

    DEME’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Nile River and cutter suction dredger D’artagnan are being serviced in GEMAK facilities in Tuzla, Turkey, at the same time. “We wish to improve our business partnership and see more DEME projects at GEMAK soon,” the Turkish shipya...
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  • Lake Redwood dredging project progressing well

    Lake Redwood dredging project progressing well

    J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. of La Crosse, Wis., is making great progress on the Lake Redwood dredging project in Minnesota. According to the Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area (RCRCA), three weeks into the project, J.F. Brennan has dredged over 76,000 cubic yards of sedimen...
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  • Van Oord welcomes its first LNG hopper dredger – the Vox Ariane

    Van Oord welcomes its first LNG hopper dredger – the Vox Ariane

    Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has just announced the successful delivery of the first dual-fuel Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) to Van Oord. Named Vox Ariane, the high-specification dredger has a hopper...
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  • Rohde Nielsen crews busy on Lynetteholm dredging project

    Rohde Nielsen crews busy on Lynetteholm dredging project

    Rohde Nielsen is part of the port development and capital dredging project named "Lynetteholm Enterprise 1" – Copenhagen’s man-made island. From December 2021 to December 2022, RN units Ajax R, Roar R, Hugin R, Munin R, Ull R, and Balder R, will dredg...
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  • Dutch delegation visits hopper dredger Albatros

    Dutch delegation visits hopper dredger Albatros

    Staff members of the Dutch Embassy in New Zealand recently took a tour of the hopper dredger Albatros to find out more about the vessel and its current dredging operations in the area. "We would like to extend a big thank you to Dutch Dredging, Ron an...
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