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 More
More Oysters on the Hamble…
We were thrilled to have been involved in the Solent Seascape Project in 2023. This multi-million pound, five-year partnership, funded by the Endangered Landscapes Project, aims to restore a wealth of diverse marine species and habitats back to the Solent, in this instance Oysters to the River Hamble. And following the success of the original phase of this project we are back helping with the next... 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
Keeping Busy – Winter Dredging
Autumn is here and, as the seasons change, we shift into top gear with our dredging fleet to get some serious amounts of mud moved! Our busy dredging program is expected to keep us working hard all winter until Easter 2025 at a variety of sites in locations including; Southampton, Cowes, Chichester Harbour, River Hamble and Poole Harbour. Read More
Royal Voyage – Transporting a Princess Superyacht Mould
We were thrilled to be commissioned to transport a large Super Yacht mould from Lee-on-Solent, Southampton to the Princess Yacht facility in Plymouth. This was a highly complex operation but one we have accomplished before. The many different parties involved worked together to achieve a smooth and successful operation... Read More