Tag: dredging

A Belize-registered dredger, KSE Hitachi, sank while moored off Tuas on the afternoon of 14 April, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

A new deep-water port under construction in Ndayane, located 50 kilometers south of the capital city, is set to become a game-changer for Senegal’s trade and logistics sector.

Van Oord finished dredging two new port basins in Ain Sokhna Port completing a project that forms part of a port expansion programme.

A vessel was detained by Malaysian Maritime authorities on 23 July, 11.5 nautical miles southwest of Pulau Ketam, for illegal sand dredging.

Boskalis and Royal IHC have signed a  contract for the construction of a methanol-ready, large trailing suction hopper dredger.  

On January 16 morning, a small dredger capsized in the Mississippi River near Meraux, Louisiana, briefly forcing the waterway's closure to marine traffic.

National Marine Dredging has won a $272-million contract to dredge a section of the Suez Canal where the Panamanian container ship Ever Given ran aground in 2021.

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB describes an incident during which the towline of a harbour dredger failed, with the barge drifting free as a result.

A critical channel deepening project that will help move cargo more efficiently to and from the U.S. advanced on September 12, after the Long Beach Harbor Commission concluded an extensive environmental review process and approved the project.

Following the second failing attempt to refloat the 12,000 teu Ever Forward, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that, currently, the best thing to do, is a lightering operation of the containership, noting however that this revised plan could take another 2 weeks to be executed.