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Dredging Days

CEDA Dredging Days are organised biennially. The next Dredging Days will take place from 11-13 May 2026 in Room with a Zoo, Antwerp, Belgium. Please visit the website for more information: https://ceda.eventsair.com/dd26.

CEDA Dredging Days are always well attended by scientists and practitioners representing the whole cross section of CEDA's membership: 

  • Port, coastal and environmental authorities
  • Owners of infrastructure projects
  • Regulators
  • Environmental organisations
  • Conservation bodies
  • Dredging contractors
  • Consultants
  • Designers and builders of dredging equipment
  • Designers and builders of ancillary equipment
  • Academic and research institutions

Please note that presentations made at CEDA Dredging Days can be downloaded here.

2024 Rotterdam Dredging in a Changing World (Leading science and business in the dredging industry)
2021 Online Sustainable Dredging and Innovation (The science. The practice. The business.)
2019 Rotterdam CEDA Dredging Days 2019
2017 Rotterdam Sustainable Dredging - Continued Benefits
2015 Rotterdam Innovative Dredging Solutions for Ports
2012 Abu Dhabi Virtue, Venture and Vision in the Coastal Zone
2011 Rotterdam Dredging and Beyond
2009 Rotterdam Dredging tools for the future
2008 Antwerp Dredging facing sustainability 
2007 Rotterdam The day after we stop dredging - Dredging for infrastructure and public welfare
2006 Tangiers Protection of the coastline "Dredging and sustainable development"
2005 Rotterdam Dredging: The extremes
2003 Amsterdam Specialist dredging techniques inspiring dredging solutions
2002 Casablanca Dredging without boundaries
2001 Amsterdam Dredging seen
1999 Amsterdam Dredging challenged
1997 Amsterdam New developments in dredging equipment and technology
1993 Amsterdam Experience of the application of research results to dredging practice
1991 Amsterdam Accessible harbours
1989 Amsterdam Aggregate dredging
1988 Hamburg Environmentally acceptable methods of dredging
1987 Amsterdam Dredging aspects of immersed tube tunnels and trenching
1985 Amsterdam Electric and hydraulic drives onboard dredging equipment
1983 Amsterdam Instrumentation and control of dredging processes
1980 Amsterdam Suppliers to the dredging industry