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.
Update: Van Oord dredging vessels to start work in Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Two Van Oord split hopper barges (Pieter Caland and the Cornelis Lely) and backhoe dredger Simson...
Dredging contract awarded for Port of Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – A contract to dredge the access channel to Stazione Marittima di Venezia has been awarded to a...
Van Oord dredging vessels near Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – The semi-submersible vessel Seaway Albatross is approaching the Bosphorus Strait today on its way...
Port of Ancona in urgent need of dredging
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – The Port of Ancona in urgent need of dredging if it is to remain competitive with nearby ports such as...
Aktau, the next Caspian Sea port to start dredging
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 29, 2024 – The Caspian Sea port of Aktau has released some details about its planned dredging activities. An...
Port of Figueira da Foz issues infrastructure tender
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 18, 2024 – The Port of Figueira da Foz has issued a €24.3 million tender for the improvement of...
Dragados to build dock for civil guard in Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The company Dragados will soon begin building a dock for the “Guardia Civil del Mar” in...
Temryuk port operations depend on dredging
Temryuk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 14, 2024 – RosMorPort, the state-owned developer of Russian sea transport infrastructure, has begun an urgent...
Urgent dredging to start in Baku port, Caspian Sea shrinks
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – Dredging will start in the coming days in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea port of Baku, which will allow access...
Update: Makhachkala port partly reopens after dredging
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The oil terminal of Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala reopened after emergency dredging to...
Port of Monfalcone set to complete East-West dredging
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) January 9, 2024 – Following three months of work, the Zeta srl ​​company is close to completing the dredging of the...
Kazakhstan plans dredging of Ural-Caspian Canal
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Kazakhstan plans to start dredging of the Ural River-Caspian Sea Canal in 2024 and include the...
Russia’s Makhachkala port blocked by silt
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Since the beginning of December, heavy winds blocked the dry cargo harbour channel of Russia’s port of...
Port of Manfredonia signs infrastructure development contract
Manfredonia, Italy (Ports Europe) December 31, 2023 – On 21 December 21, 2023, an agreement was signed between Sogesid SpA, represented by the CEO Eng....
Dredging work has started in the port of Trapani
Trapani, Italy (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – Dredging work has started in the port of Trapani to improve safety conditions during access and mooring...
Shrinking Caspian Sea forces Kazakhstan to dredge its ports
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Faced with a shrinking Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan’s port of Kuryk starts urgent dredging works. They...
Russia’s Volga-Caspian Canal dredged to 4.5 m depth, but…
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) December 8, 2023 – After heavy dredging, involving 17 dredgers and a fleet of 40 support vessels, the draft on the...
Van Oord joint venture awarded dredging project at Port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) December 5, 2023 – Cosmos Van Oord has been awarded a dredging project at Port of Burgas on the Black Sea. Cosmos Van...
Fincosit awarded Port of Taranto dredging contract
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) November 22, 2023 – The Fincosit company has been awarded a contract to dredge 2.3 million m³ of material from the...
Dredging of Port of Viana do Castelo begins
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – The dredging of Port of Viana do Castelo has started in the navigation channel. The port...