{"id":477724,"date":"2026-02-19T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477724\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:26:09","slug":"breaking-news-boskalis-signs-iceland-dredging-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477724\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Boskalis signs Iceland dredging contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boskalis has signed a three-year maintenance contract for the Port of Hornafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in southeastern Iceland. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/boskalis-2-768x474.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Boskalis<\/p>\n<p>During each maintenance campaign, Boskalis will deploy a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) to dredge approximately 650,000 cubic meters of black volcanic sand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Shoalway will be the vessel delivering Boskalis\u2019 first Icelandic experience. This summer, the vessel will dredge the sandbar at the port entrance and create a deeper buffer in the access channel to collect sediment that accumulates during the winter months,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Identical campaigns will follow in 2027 and 2028. <\/p>\n<p>Together, these dredging works will ensure that the fishing Port of Hornafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u2013 one of the region\u2019s most important economic drivers \u2013 remains accessible, allowing trade to continue without interruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boskalis has signed a three-year maintenance contract for the Port of Hornafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in southeastern Iceland. photo courtesy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[214667,4,450,451,18868,3,214668,452,453,214669],"class_list":["post-477724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-boskalis","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iceland","tag-news","tag-shoalway","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tshd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}