Dredging industry walk on the sustainable development

Promote global sustainable development, its fundamental power is that the new round of scientific and technological revolutions, the change of new technology is a new challenge for the transformation and innovation of dredging industries, and also provides long-term environmental conditions.

The challenge of the dredging industry

In recent years, the Netherlands IHC has maintained a lead in multiple fields of dredging technology, and the intelligence direction is forwarded by digital and information technology. Germany maintains a leading lead in high-power promotion technologies, and the design and manufacturing of dredging equipment have advantages. Digital, Belgium, four major international dredging companies, and general application of information technology, long-term occupation of the main share of the international high-end market.

Jan De Nul Group is the first dredging company to carry out 100% sustainable beach replenishments, announced JDN in the release.

Moreover, this world-first has taken place at the Belgian coast. From 1st February, Jan De Nul will deposit about 500,000 cubic meters of sand on the beach of Riverside by order of the Agency for Maritime Services and Coast (MDK) of the Flemish Government.

Better air quality thanks to advanced biofuel and emission reduction of up to 90%

The equipment that Jan De Nul will use for these dredging and earthmoving works, meets the strictest sustainability standards.

The ambitious targets that Jan De Nul Group is achieving are thanks to a sustainable course that the dredging company has been following for some time.

During mid-2019 Jan De Nul Group contractually committed to reducing its annual CO₂ emissions by 15% during the maintenance dredging works in the coastal marina of Newport, also commissioned by the MDK Agency.

Never before has a dredging company achieved a CO₂ emission reduction of this magnitude in a commercial application on a project.

Jan De Nul Group is using sustainable fuel for the dredging works in Riverside. During the works, the dredger Pedro Álvares Cabral will sail on 100% sustainable drop-in advanced biofuel.

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