Dutch marine contractor Boskalis recently completed an extensive land reclamation campaign on the island of Gulhifalhu in the Maldives. The works were carried out over a period of nine months using the trailing suction hopper dredgers Oranje, Queen of the Netherlands, Willem van Oranje, and Prins...
Van Oord recently completed one of the largest beach restoration projects in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of Van Oord subsidiary Dravo...
A fairway deepening project will be undertaken at the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden to enable the port to better serve export and import industries. The fairway deepening will be done in conjunction with quay reinforcement works that were started earlier this year. Gothenburg Port Authority (GPA)...
Florida shipbuilder the Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Netherlands-based marine engineering company Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of designing and constructing a highly automated, medium hopper dredger for use by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredger will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton and Port St Joe facilities. […]
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Dutch marine projects company Van Oord has deployed two of its vessels to dredge the harbour at the Prinses Amaliahaven container terminal located on Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. A consortium of Van Oord, HOCHTIEF, and Ballast Nedam has constructed 2.4 kilometres of new quay wall at the facility to...
The Port of Southampton has completed a significant navigation channel widening programme in the Western Docks, enabling the largest container vessels to pass the biggest cruise ships berthed in the port, Associated British Ports (ABP) said in a recent press release. This is the first significant...
The city government of Unalaska in Alaska and the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Alaska District have entered into an agreement stipulating channel improvement works. The agreement requires both parties to provide a 600-by-600-foot (182-by-182-metre) dredged channel with a depth of minus 58...
The Port of Gdansk in Poland has awarded local company Porr a contract for the reconstruction of two quays. The total length of the quays to be reconstructed is over 450 metres. Port officials expect completion of the project will help boost the competitiveness of the port, increasing its potential...
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The Romanian government has given its approval for the expansion of the southern sector of the Port of Constanta on Romania’s Black Sea coast. The completion of the project, which has an estimated value of approximately €1.12 billion (US$1.23 billion), will allow access for large-capacity ships at...
Whilst the first big consolidator of this offshore upcycle was Tidewater, rapidly followed by ADNOC and AD Ports of Abu Dhabi, Europe is also experiencing a quiet wave of consolidation. Driving this is the biggest of the “Big Four” lowlands dredging and offshore companies, Boskalis. But whereas the gains in Tidewater have been open to […]
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