{"id":530631,"date":"2026-03-18T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530631\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:51:12","slug":"breaking-news-boskalis-resumes-the-largest-ever-uxo-clearance-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530631\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Boskalis resumes the largest ever UXO clearance project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful first season off the coast of Zeebrugge, Belgium, Boskalis Hirdes EOD Services has resumed the major identification and clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) project. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/boskalis-5-768x503.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Boskalis<\/p>\n<p>With the backhoe dredger Manu-Pekka and one UXO Offshore Support Vessel, Boskalis is enabling the safe installation of submarine cables for the Modular Offshore Grid 2 (MOG2) project, connecting the world\u2019s first artificial energy island, Princess Elisabeth Island.<\/p>\n<p>The Manu Pekka is equipped with a multitool to search for UXOs in the deeper sections.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months, Boskalis will investigate hundreds of additional seabed targets. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Dutch dredging giant, this will take place both near the coast and offshore along the 55-kilometer cable route.<\/p>\n<p>This is the largest project ever focused on the identification and clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a successful first season off the coast of Zeebrugge, Belgium, Boskalis Hirdes EOD Services has resumed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15106,214667,4,450,451,3,452,453,238545,238546],"class_list":["post-530631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-belgium","tag-boskalis","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uxo","tag-zeebrugge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530631","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=530631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}