Extensive dredging completed at new inland harbour near Spijk, Netherlands

Dutch marine projects company Boskalis has completed dredging works for the new inland harbour for fifty inland vessels along the Upper Rhine River near Spijk in the Netherlands.

The works entailed the removal of 2.3 million cubic metres of sand. The vessels used included an electric suction dredger and crane barges.

Boskalis said that much of the dredged sand was reused on other projects in the Netherlands such as the reinforcement of the Markermeer dikes and land reclamation in the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam.