Jeroen van den Berg, a commercial business analyst at Royal IHC, gives his opinion on the changing dredging landscape I was born in the dredging village of Sliedrecht, a town in the Netherlands, known for […]
Over the past 100 years, Bakker Sliedrecht has made a major contribution to the growth of the dredging industry. DPC talks to managing director Sjoerd Teertstra about hybrid systems, automation, new types of fuel, and […]
Van Oord’s sustainability director, Sven Kramer, gives a marine contractor’s perspective about leading the energy transition and considers what the company has done in-house to reduce its emissions System integration, energy storage, stakeholder engagement, and […]
The externalities of a dredging project should be included in proposals for increased stakeholder engagement, writes René Kolman, secretary-general of IADC The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has spent more than 50 years supporting […]
Ports are limited by what they can change to maximise evolving trends. Dr Indra Vonck, port expert at Deloitte Port Services, notes that while technology can even the playing field, not all investments need to […]
Tiedo Vellinga, professor emeritus Ports and Waterways at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, has championed a blueprint for an ecosystem-based approach to port development As a native Dutch man who grew up on a […]
Shipping needs ports and most ports need dredging, and so the circle of interdependence continues. The future of these industries is interlinked, and they share the same drivers and challenges. Whether these drivers be economic, […]
The world’s oldest cutter suction dredger (CSD), the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP’s) Mindi, sank about 161 km off Balboa as it was under tow to a new owner. Built by US-based Ellicott Machine Corps, a […]
Recent extreme weather events should speed up discussions about shipping’s preparedness for a low-carbon future, writes Paul Stuart Smith, CEO of Zero Carbon Finance Another week, another record weather event. More than 1,600 people were […]
Henry Kingston, port engineering manager at the Port of Cork, Ireland, describes how the port prepares its business for growing trade in oil, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals Location, location, location. It is a phrase most people […]
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