New Barge JML5019
We are excited to announce the addition of our new flat top pontoon barge “JML5019” to our pontoon fleet, boasting an impressive total deck capacity/deadweight of 1,700t. JML5019 is also wider than many other similar barges at 18.9m meaning it can accommodate a crawler crane up to 300t comfortably. Read More
Pulling Their Weight – Coastal Towage Review
As many of us grapple with the weather spare a thought for the crews of our coastal towage and tugboat vessels as they make their way around a very stormy coastline assisting with cargos and vessels from smaller deck barges up to the unique heavy transport barge Terra Marique. Read More
Keeping the Mud Moving – Winter Dredging
Our larger dredge set up, including backhoe dredger ‘Doreen Dorward’, and our 300m3 capacity self-propelled, split hopper barges 'Nab' and 'Needles’, have recently completed dredging at Haslar Marina in Gosport for Boatfolk Marinas. The dredge rig then relocated over to Newhaven, and are now carrying out a number of dredging operations at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Read More
Our Pontoon Fleet is Ready for Work!
We have a range of flat top pontoons available for charter. And they are looking their best and are ready for work after just finishing their intermediate dry docking and class surveys. Our 50m x 14m pontoons are BV classed with a full international loadline for use world wide, they have an impressive deck cargo capacity of 1300t... Read More
Anchor Handling in Antwerp
Our powerful Damen Multicat Wind Lass is currently in Antwerp assisting dredging giants Jan De Nul (JDN) as they dredge a trench across the River Scheldt for a groundbreaking new road tunnel construction project... Read MoreMoving “Land and Sea” – Coastal Towage for the Terra Marique
Our 24tBP twin screw shoalbuster tug ‘DMS Condor‘ has continued to provide towing services to the 80m, long semi-submergible, unique heavy transport barge Terra Marique around the UK and EU coast as it delivers essential cargos on behalf of Robert Wynns and Sons. Read More
Ship Lift Dredging Challenge
Associated British Ports (APB) have asked us to help them resolve an issue with a specialist “ship lift” facility in Southampton. A “Shiplift” system is essentially a large elevator which raises and lowers vessels in and out of the water for dry-docking operations. Many years of silt accumulation mean that the lift is no longer able to lower to its maximum design depth and impacting the functionality of the lift... Read More
Out With the Old…
In a change to our more normal winter schedule we started the new year with a jetty demolition project at Sandbanks for the National Trust. The Jetty had been used since 1996 (roughly 30 years) as a landing stage for passenger and small cargo vessels traveling to and from Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour... Read More
Tugboat DMS Condor’s Grand Tour
Our tugboat DMS Condor has been hard at work all over the UK and parts of Europe this year. DMS Condor is a powerful and highly manoeuvrable twin screw, Damen built tug boat that is ideally suited to provide support operations, and is now under the commercial management of Landfall Marine. Read More