Dredging
The Environmental Projection Agency has agreed to issue a licence to the Department of the Marine for the long-awaited Howth Harbour dredging project. That’s according to Howth Yacht Club Commodore Kevin Monks, who in his latest Commodore’s Update to club…
Donegal County Council is carrying out plough dredging at Buncrana Harbour in Lough Swilly between until next Friday 15 May, subject to operational and weather constraints. Dredging operations are along the berthing face of Buncrana Pier, for a distance of…
Damen Group Awarded Contract to Build Dredger for UK’s Largest Port Operator
29th April 2026 Dredging
A Dutch shipyard has signed a contract with UK Dredging (UKD), a subsidiary of Associated British Ports (ABP). Damen Shipyards Group has signed the contract with the UK’s largest port operator to build a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The agreement…
A large trailing suction hopper dredger has berthed at Dun Laoghaire’s Carlisle Pier this week. The vessel, Freeway, is understood to be alongside for a short lay-up rather than operational work in the harbour. Harbour sources indicated the ship will…
New research led by Queen’s University Belfast suggests that Lough Neagh, Britain and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake, is under threat from commercial sand dredging. Sand dredging is the underwater excavation and removal of sand from seabeds, rivers, or lakes using…
Ireland’s dredging activity over the past decade has been concentrated in a small number of major ports, according to an Afloat analysis of Environmental Protection Agency dumping-at-sea licence records, available via the EPA Dumping at Sea Permit Register. That concern…
Dungarvan Sailing Club Celebrates 80 Years, Hurler Roots and Calls for Harbour Dredging
28th March 2026 Tom MacSweeney
Dungarvan Sailing Club owes a lot to the hurling counterparts of the county team. One of them brought from Stateside the plans for the first dinghy built for club sailing and which was its foundation for the growth that has…
Howth Harbour in Co Dublin has been awarded €4 million for dredging under a €27 million national investment programme for fishery harbours and marine infrastructure. The funding forms part of the 2026 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, announced…
Howth Yacht Club has confirmed that the next edition of the Wave Regatta will not take place in 2026, as the club awaits essential dredging works in Howth Harbour. The event is now scheduled to return in 2028. Wave Regatta…
Time was when international arrogance and slow-changing prejudices allowed a statement like this: "The Irish and the Dutch should change places. Within a decade, Ireland would be the world's finest Market Garden, and The Netherlands would have disappeared." It was…
During his visit to Howth Fishery Harbour Centre on Monday (14 July), Timmy Dooley, Minister for State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine was welcomed to Howth Yacht Club. There he met with HYC Commodore Kevin Monks as…
The Department of Transport has been notified by Donegal County Council that they will carry out plough dredging at Buncrana Harbour in Lough Swilly between Tuesday 20 May and Monday 9 June. The dredging is estimated to take three weeks,…
Damen Shipyards Water Injection Dredger Joins Division of ABP - the UK’s Largest Ports Group
30th January 2025 Shipyards
Damen Shipyards completion of UKD Seadragon, a Shoalbuster 2711 Water Injection Dredger (WID), marks the newest vessel for UK Dredging (UKD), which has the largest British-owned dredging fleet. UKD is a division of Associated British Ports (ABP), which also operates…
First Irish Port to Use HVO for Maintenance Dredging takes Place at Waterford
19th November 2024 Dredging
A first for Irish ports has begun at the Port of Waterford, where a dredger currently involved in maintenance operations is being fuelled by hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), writes Jehan Ashmore. The Port of Waterford, along with Dutch dredging company…
Eels in a park pond? About 150 eels were found during de-silting work in the ponds in the 37-acre Ward Park in the centre of Bangor on Belfast Lough. That’s about 5,000 km from their spawning area, the Sargasso Sea…
Another Sighting of Dredger ‘Charnock’ as Warrenpoint Port Maintenance Works Continue
24th March 2024 Dredging
Afloat reader Lee Maginnis has shared a new image of the suction dredger Charnock returning to Warrenpoint in Co Down after emptying its load in the open sea on Sunday (24 March). As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the vessel has…
