After many rewarding years of serving the dredging industry, Dredge Constructors LLC is announcing a new chapter for the company. To ensure the long-term continuity of service and technical innovation for their valued clients, Dredge Constructors has entered into an agreement to transfer its business activities to MOTAS Group, effective January 1, 2026.

Greg & Sandy Holder: “We want to express our deepest gratitude to our customers and partners for the trust and loyalty you have shown us over the years. It has been a privilege to work alongside you. As we prepare to conclude our sales and quotations from the California office on December 31, 2025, we are confident that MOTAS is the right partner to lead your projects into the future. Their expertise and global reach will provide you with the high-quality support you deserve.”

Seamless Transition to MOTAS Group
Starting in January 2026, MOTAS will take over all new U.S. sales, quotations, and primary customer support. These services will be managed by the MOTAS team, backed by their extensive in-house engineering department and their U.S. operations based in Texas.

New Contact Information:
MOTAS Dredging Solutions Inc. 1725 Hughes Landing Blvd. The Woodlands, TX 77380 Phone: 281-522-1620

Key Contacts:

Alberto Tomada: +39 333 642 5049 | alt@motas.group

Joeri Claessens: +31 611 533 132 | jcl@motas.group

We have successfully transported a MOTAS Booster Station to the port, where it will be loaded onto the vessel for final delivery to our customer.

This marks an important step in our logistics chain, ensuring a safe, efficient and on-time delivery. Many thanks to our team for their dedication and seamless collaboration!

Young engineers bring fresh ideas and new energy into the dredging industry. One of them is Bart, who started his journey with us after graduating in mechanical engineering. His story shows how technology and international projects come together in this sector.

During his mechanical engineering studies, he spent six months on an internship at Van Oord, where he first became truly acquainted with the dredging industry. The combination of technology, international projects, and working on large, complex systems immediately appealed to him. In the final year of his studies, while searching for a graduation project, he came across Motas Dredging Solutions. The company’s smaller scale, innovative focus, and variety of projects fit perfectly with his interests. After graduating, he decided to travel for a while. But once he returned, he joined Motas as a mechanical engineer.

Fresh perspective
Working in the dredging industry turned out to be far more versatile than he had expected. Where he once feared he would be stuck behind a computer designing all day, he quickly found himself facing practical challenges on sites in the United States and Malaysia. The international collaboration and the scale of the projects continue to impress and inspire him.

That is also why he believes it is so important for more young people to discover this sector. It’s a field where technology, sustainability, and adventure come together. There is a constant search for more efficient and smarter ways of working. The Netherlands has a strong reputation in this industry, and with the growing focus on energy-efficient designs, there is plenty of room for new ideas. Young people can bring the fresh perspective that is needed to keep moving forward.

Just dive in
His advice to those considering a career in the maritime or dredging sector? Just dive in and don’t be afraid to try new things. You learn an incredible amount in a short time. Especially if you are open to different roles and international experiences. And best of all: the results of your work are often directly visible.

Looking ahead, he is most excited about combining his technical expertise with project management, so that he can not only contribute to innovative designs but also guide projects through to execution. He also hopes to continue discovering new countries and cultures through his work. Developments such as sustainable propulsion systems, predictive maintenance, and modular design are of particular interest to him. In his view, these technologies hold the key to a more efficient and future-proof dredging industry.

Bart in Malaysia during the construction of a spray pontoon

MOTAS has been awarded a contract to design and deliver dredge equipment and components, including a dredge automation package, for a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD).

YÜTEK Shipbuilding will build the TSHD, which will be equipped with a dredge pump, bow coupling, gate valves, and other components. The vessel will have impressive stats of 79.85m length, 20m dredging depth, and 2×1300 kW power.

Teun Boerma, Sales Manager: “The TSHD, the first of its kind to be designed and built in Turkey, will be used for the maintenance of ports and waterways by the Ministry of Transport.”

Additionally, the dredger can be utilized for capital dredging, such as land reclamation projects.