Dredging
A port’s activities related to the deepening of the seabed in its waterways and basins. Includes the waters in port entrances and docks, to deepen the draft for handling ever-larger ships.
Egypt’s Damietta port completes dredging project
Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – Damietta Port Authority has completed a dredging project, enabling the harbour to...
Damietta Port is ready to accommodate larger vessels
Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – The Damietta Port authority (DPA) has completed dredging works to deepen the navigational channel and is now...
Genoa port needs urgent dredging to support cruise traffic rise
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Genoa port needs to increase its draft in order to support the constant increase in cruise passenger traffic,...
Local company Vega signs dredging contract Durrës port starts
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) May 12, 2019 – The local company Vega has signed the contract with the Durrës Port Authority to dredge the basin and...
Barletta port to invest €2.8 million in maintenance dredging
Barletta, Italy (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Barletta port plans to invest €2.8 million ($3.1 million) in maintenance dredging to bring the port area...
Seville port launches Guadalquivir estuary maintenance dredging tender
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (APS – Port Authority of Seville) has launched a tender for the...
Azimut Ltd (Ukraine) wins Mariupol port dredging contract auction
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 7, 2019 – Azimut Ltd (Ukraine) has won the contract to dredge the approach channel and water area of the...
AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (Palermo) okays dredging at Trapani port
Trapani, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea Port...
Van Oord plans to join Damietta port dredging project
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Dutch maritime contracting company Van Oord is planning to participate in work to deepen Damietta...
Portugal to invest €36.8 million in Viana do Castelo port
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Portugal plans to invest a total of €36.8 million ($41.7 million) to build a...
Bertolo to start overhaul project of Monfalcone port’s Valentinis canal
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Italian company Bartolo has started works on the overhaul of a 100-metre section of the Valentinis...
Kherson port completes anchorage dredging work
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 27, 2019 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has announced that Kherson port has completed dredging of...
Viana do Castelo port to award road and dredging tenders
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, will be in Viana do Castelo, in northern Portugal, this...
Livorno expands access channel to handle larger vessels
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Italy’s La Dragaggi wins tender for handling of marine sediments in Pescara port
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – Italian company La Dragaggi srl has won a tender for a project for the handling of marine...
Setúbal port to maintain dialogue on controversial dredging project
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – The president of the port administration of Setúbal today vowed to maintain dialogue with...
Event: 4th European Dredging Summit – March 6-7, 2019, Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 30, 2019 – The 4th Dredging Summit Europe taking place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 6-7, 2018. The organiser,...
USPA dredged 10 ports and canals in 2018
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 27, 2019 – In 2018, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) directed the for dredging of six ports and four...
Ravenna port needs dredging to recover cruise traffic
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2019 – Ravenna port sees cruise traffic decline as a result of the draft risk it poses. The number of cruise...
Italy’s environment ministry approves dredging of Monfalcone port
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) January 22, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of the Environment has approved the dredging of Monfalcone port’s basin...