Our dredging team have been keeping busy dredging through the winter months and into the spring! Their latest dredging project has seen them working in Newhaven on the South Coast of the UK.
The team have been working for Newhaven Marina to complete a significant capital dredge of the marina, helping to unlock its future potential. This has been coordinated with work from other contractors involved in reconfiguring the pontoon and pile layout within the marina.
Backhoe self-propelled dredger ‘Doreen Dorward‘, equipped with a 52t Long reach excavator and an RTK GPS Dredge control system, has been loading 300m3 capacity split hopper barge ‘Needles‘. Together they have been highly efficient achieving approximately 1,500m3 dredged and disposed off on a good day!
Many of the areas within the marina were so shallow that the dredging vessels would ground at low tide, which meant careful planning was required to cover the area in a methodical fashion, whilst co-ordinating dredging works with pontoon and piling contractors, Walcon, who were working in close proximity. For the particulalry restricted areas of the marina our highly manoeuvrable, self-propelled excavator – hopper dredger CH Horn was deployed.
The total dredge is in the region of 30,000m3, which has been split into two phases, phase 1 in October 2025, and phase 2 in May 2026, which has worked well for the marina, giving them time to complete other works on site, and move all the vessels and pontoons out of the dredge areas.
CH Horn in action dredging the more restricted areas of Newhaven Marina.
If you have a requirement for marine operations in shallow or near shore projects, please feel free to get in touch to see where we can help. Alternatively, you can find out more about our dredging operations here: Dredging Services