Deliveries include new electric dredgers for operation in Mozambique and a crane barge for a US owner. Construction meanwhile continues on a Russian inland dredger, a Chinese piling ship, and a hopper barge for deployment at a Taiwanese port.
Kenmare Resources' two new high-capacity dredges have begun their journey by sea to the Moma Mine in Mozambique. The Roll Group’s heavy lift vessel Rolldock Storm, which is carrying the dredges, left Rotterdam on June 4, 2025.
Both dredgers were built by Royal IHC in their Kinderdijk yard.
Chinese shipbuilder Dajin Heavy Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bestway Marine and Energy Technology, has begun construction of a new dynamically-positioned pile driving vessel for China Railway Construction Corporation (CRC).
Construction of the vessel will be funded by the CRC Bridge Engineering Bureau Group. Design work was undertaken by Shanghai Jiahao Marine Engineering Research and Design.
US marine contractor JE McAmis has commissioned the Ellis Island, an ABS-class derrick barge designed by naval architecture firm Glosten and retrofitted at WCT Marine and Construction in Astoria, Oregon.
The 250-foot (76-metre) by 76-foot (23-metre) barge underwent significant structural and mechanical modifications, including the installation of two 100-foot (30-metre) high-strength spuds, spudwells, and a 390 Manitowoc drawworks system.
The Southern Centre for Shipbuilding and Ship Repair division of Russia's state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation has begun conducting sea trials of a new inland sand dredger slated for the country's Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation (Rosmorrechflot).
Lotos-2 belongs to the Project 93.159 series of self-propelled, bucket wheel dredgers, the first example of which was handed over to Rosmorrechflot in 2023.
Singapore's Kim Heng Shipbuilding and Engineering has launched a new self-propelled split hopper barge ordered by Taiwan International Ports Corporation.
Kao No 601 will have a total hopper capacity of 680 cubic metres upon completion.
Once in service, the barge will support the maintenance of the navigation channels in the Port of Kaohsiung.