34th IADC International Dredging Seminar

Organised by the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), this seminar on dredging and reclamation has been especially developed for professionals in dredging-related industries and has been offered on a regular basis since 1993 at a variety of locations including Delft, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi and other cities.

A highlight of the seminar week is always a site visit, where participants can see firsthand the enormity of dredging operations. In this week there were two such visits. The first site visit was at the Maasvlakte 2 project, a state-of-the-art project to expand the Port of Rotterdam. The second site visit took place at a dredging equipment yard at Moerdijk, where the extensive logistics related to a dredging project were explained.

Classroom lectures are presented by experts from IADC member companies, whose practical knowledge and experience give added value to the classroom theory. Amongst the subjects covered were: the development of new ports and maintenance of existing ports; project phasing; descriptions of types of dredging equipment and costing of projects and types of dredging projects. An informal dinner mid-week provided seminar participants and dredging company employees the opportunity to continue their lively dialogue about dredging, reclamation and maritime construction and to get to know each other better.

The next IADC seminar will be organised in co-operation with the National University of Singapore in Singapore, from 08 - 12 November 2010. The seminar's venue will be the Grand Park City Hall Hotel. Decision makers and their advisors in governments, port and harbour authorities, offshore companies and other organisations charged with executing dredging projects are encouraged to attend. he fee for the week-long seminar is EUR2,950 (VAT inclusive). This includes all tuition, seminar proceedings, workshops and a special participants dinner, but excludes travel costs and accommodations.