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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.

Kazakhstan to dredge Kuryk and Aktau ports

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Kuryk will be dredged in 2024, while Aktau, the country’s...

National, local firms join for Valencia container terminal tender

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2024 – Leading national construction and dredging companies are forming consortia with local building firms...

Port of Aviles to draft dredging project

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – The Port of Aviles is drafting a project to expand the San Juan breakwater. This would prevent a large...

Port of Rimini starts canal mouth dredging

Rimini, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – The Port of Rimini has started dredging the canal mouth. An area of around 10,000 m² will be dredged to...

Romanian government approves Constanta Port dredging

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – The Romanian government has approved an ambitious $229 million dredging project at the Port of...

Port of Bari plans San Cataldo pier expansion

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – The Port of Bari is planning an expansion of San Cataldo pier, a proposal supported by the Municipality of...

Dredging activities continue at the Port of Ancona

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2024 – Dredging activities at the Port of Ancona are continuing. The removal of the material from the seabed...

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...

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...

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