Van Oord has successfully completed dredging works in the Prinses Amaliahaven on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam with the harbour basin now deepened to 20 metres below sea level.
During the peak of the work, three Van Oord vessels were working at the same time at the terminal. With the completion of this work, the delivery of the project later this year nears.
The construction consortium, consisting of Van Oord, Hochtief and Ballast Nedam, is building two deep-sea quays, an inland shipping quay and some earth-retaining walls.
Van Oord's cutter suction dredger Biesbosch and trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) Vox Apolonia and Vox Alexia dredged the port to a depth of 20 metres below sea level. Biesbosch dredged to a depth of about 15 metres while the TSHDs were responsible for the last five metres.
The sand dredged from Prinses Amaliahaven was partly reused in the adjacent Prinses Alexiahaven, where Van Oord is working on a 45-hectare land reclamation project.