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Cutter suction dredgers

equipped with a rotating cutter head. These powerful cutter suction dredgers are used in dredging rock, clay, silt and sand. Boskalis deploys cutter suction dredgers in the construction and maintenance of ports, land reclamation and coastal defenses, and riverbank protection, and in dredging trenches for pipelines. A cutter suction dredger is positioned on spuds and anchor winches to ensure the vessel is firmly anchored during dredging. The cutter

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Harwich Maintenance Dredging

Harwich Maintenance Dredging Boskalis Westminster has undertaken regular maintenance dredging on behalf of Harwich Haven Authority for over 30 years... of the Port of Felixstowe. Our current contract for the maintenance dredging of Harwich Harbour and approach channel, along with the Felixstowe Container... led to BWL being granted the extension of the maintenance dredging contract for 2025. Maintenance dredging occurs in the approaches and berth pockets

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Peel Ports Maintenance Dredging

Peel Ports Maintenance Dredging For the Peel Ports Term Maintenance Contract, Boskalis Westminster provided maintenance dredging services for all of the Peel Ports facilities in the Northwest of England and Scotland. This entailed the surveying and dredging of the Manchester Ship Canal (MSC) from... Term contracts executed by Boskalis Westminster for the maintenance dredging of the Manchester Ship Canal, long term maintenance operations in Heysham

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Boskalis joint venture awarded dredging contract for Santos port, Brazil

Boskalis joint venture awarded dredging contract for Santos port, Brazil Papendrecht, 8 February 2017 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis... and maintenance dredging of the port of Santos, the largest port of South America. The contract carries a total value for the joint venture of approximately.... Subsequent dredging operations are expected to commence later this year with the deployment of various trailing suction hopper dredgers and a backhoe

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Dredging and construction, Pluto LNG project

Dredging and construction, Pluto LNG project The Pluto LNG project is located about 190 km northwest of the coastal town Karratha...; then part of the turning basin and two trenches, which traverse the existing NWSV LNG shipping channel, were dredged. Dredging the two trenches early in the program was required since shipping in the NWSV LNG channel was scheduled to increase in the near future, decreasing the time available for dredging

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Reclamation and dewatering works, Sepetiba Bay

-finished products that can be sold at higher margins. The government authorities of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro both supported the project. Dredging work on the project started in November 2006. The contract called for the dredging of 11 million m3 of material to construct a harbor basin 14.5... International B.V. (in joint venture with Dredging International nv)

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