The technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply a comprehensive package of engines and propulsion machinery for a new Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) vessel. When delivered, the 'Spartacus', which is being built on behalf of Belgium based Dredging International (DEME), will be the world's most powerful CSD and the first ever to be fuelled by liquefied natural gas … [Read more...]
Signal International and Great Lakes Dredge Square Off
Signal International, Inc. made the announcement Tuesday that work toward the design and construction of an Articulated Tug/Barge Hopper Dredge for Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) has been discontinued at the request of GLDD... and let's just say Signal is not happy about it. Signal and GLDD entered into the contract for both the design and construction of the AT/B Hopper … [Read more...]
Dutch Dikes To Get $65 Million Upgrade
Amsterdam - The Dutch Rijnland District Water Control Board, responsible for flood defenses in an area surrounding Amsterdam, tendered a contract today to reinforce 100 kilometers (62 miles) of aging dikes along the North Sea. Embankments will be widened and stabilizing edges added to the dike’s lower side, the Leiden, Netherlands-based agency said on its website. The … [Read more...]
Cutter Suction Dredgers Delivered to Azerbaijan
On 24 January 2012, Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards delivered three Cutter Suction Dredgers of its CSD 500 series to the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) in Azerbaijan. After delivery, President Ilham Aliyev and Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov examined the dredgers at the premises of the Yacht Club in Baku. Damen representatives briefed the … [Read more...]
Hopper dredge loses Z-drive in Calcasieu Channel
Just weeks after one of their dredgers struck a subsea production pipeline in Calcasieu Channel, Manson Construction Company sustained another setback yesterday as their hopper Dredge NEWPORT lost one of it's Ulstein Z-drive propulsion units in the very same channel leading to Lake Charles. The Coast Guard has reduced the channel draft to 27 feet until the propulsion unit is … [Read more...]
Dredger strikes subsea gas pipeline in Gulf of Mexico, El Paso production platform shut in
Image (c) Lisa Haug CAMERON, LA - The Dredge Bayport, operated by Manson Gulf, LLC, was dredging in the Calcissieu Ship Channel on 30 March when they struck a 12" condensate and natural gas pipeline. Damage to the pipeline resulted in a highly flammable "fountain" of gas and condensate erupting from the surface of the ocean. The following is the press release from Marine … [Read more...]
Dredge Overturns near La Push, Washington – Photos
SEATTLE - The barge Bar Fly sits partially submerged and surrounded by containment boom near La Push, Wash., in the Quillayute River Feb. 23, 2010. The barge sank after being hung up on its anchor and taking on water. Three people were rescued by Station Quillayute River. Images courtesy of USCG. Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, Wash., responded to a report of a dredge … [Read more...]