Dredging & Flood Defence
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WATCH: Dredging kicks off to make luxury fern-shaped island
Dredging, land reclamation and 200 million m3 of sand placement has been kicked off to create luxurious beach-front villas in Dubai.
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PD Ports welcomes new Duchess dredger
The UK’s PD Ports has welcomed an expensive addition to its fleet – a £23 million (€27.3 million) dredger from the Netherlands.
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Crew stuck for 10 months on Jan De Nul dredger
Jan De Nul says detainment of the Zheng He by Mexico’s foreign trade authorities at the Port of Tampico is unlawful.
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Jan De Nul called in to open Asian bottlenecks
Dredging and port expansion works are being undertaken to improve trade routes and tackle sea levels that are falling because of climate change, Jan De Nul says.
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Sweden’s largest dredging project begins
One of Sweden’s largest ports is about to get a lot larger, with dredging beginning on an estimated 22 million m3 to create a deep-water port.
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Boskalis completes Smit Lamnarco buy-out
Dutch dredging, maritime infrastructure and services giant Boskalis has issued a brief statement saying it has bought all shares in towage operator Smit Lamnalco.
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Collaboration aims to cut dredging emissions
A new cross-party strategy is proposing new minimum emissions requirements for dredging vessels.
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Van Oord ‘regrets’ oil spill after dredger hits tanker
A clean-up is under way in Singapore after the Dutch firm Van Oord’s dredger crashed into an oil tanker at berth and ruptured an oil tank.
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A plug-in hybrid first for Jan De Nul
Jan De Nul has ordered its first plug-in hybrid dredging vessel
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TMS shares upcoming project plans
Fresh from winning the Maritime Civils Best Project Award at Seawork, TMS, shared its latest plans with Maritime Journal.
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Harbour works planned for remote Scottish islands
Costs have risen by more than 30% for works to two harbours on the remote Scottish Shetland Islands.
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Dredging begins for port energy facility
The UK’s largest port operator has started work on an energy facility with one of Boskalis’ dredgers.
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Denmark gives green light to create OSW hub
More than 3,700,000m³ of material will be dredged to create an offshore wind hub in Denmark by deepening the water and expanding the Port of Esbjerg.
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Maritime propels Jan De Nul to record turnover
Jan De Nul Group ended 2023 ‘far exceeding expectations’ thanks to a strong performance in its maritime divisions
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Tunnel worker killed at Fehmarnbelt
A construction worker has been killed in a tragic accident at the site of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, just as dredging on the 18km project was completed.
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Van Oord launches dredgers and survey vessel
Three vessels were officially christened at a ceremony in Rotterdam by Van Oord last week.
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Cemex completes dredging at London’s largest port
London’s largest port, the Port of Tilbury, has had 20,000m3 of spoil dredged from berths to allow today’s huge ships to dock.
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Historic Spanish beach restoration completed
The largest beach restoration project in Spain’s history has been completed by Dutch marine civils engineering firm Van Oord.
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Port expands container capacity by 4 million TEU
Van Oord’s vessels will carry out the next stage of engineering at the Port of Rotterdam, which is expanding its annual container throughput by a whopping four million TEU.
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Scotland rubberstamps dredging for OSW hub
The final phase of a Scottish port’s works to make it an offshore wind hub have been given priority status by the authorities.