International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) Secretary General, Rene Kolman, will introduce the Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure guidebook at the congress ‘Hydraulic Engineering Structures of Water Transport’, taking place in Moscow on February 7-8, 2018. Published by the Central Dr
At today’s Georgia Foreign Trade Conference, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director, Griff Lynch, announced that Savannah’s outer harbor dredging will be finished in March, bringing the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) to 50 percent completion. Deepening the inner harbor should be comple
The Government has decided to sell off its entire public stake in Dredging Corporation of India (DCI). The information was given today by the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers Shri Mansukh L Mandaviya. According to the minister, this decision aims
Our first Dredging Today Conference, moderated by Mr Alexander Verbeek – an Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), took place on October 9-10, 2017, in Amsterdam RAI. During the second day of DTC, we caught up with Mr Verbeek, a
The Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee will hold an Adaptive Management Workshop in Nebraska City on February 6-8. The Bird, Fish, and Human Considerations teams were developed as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adaptive management framework for implementing the Missouri River
A proposal to extend the Onslow Marine Support Base to allow off-shore vessels to access the newly constructed Beadon Creek Maritime Facility was recommended for environmental approval today by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). EPA deputy chairman Robert Harvey said th
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, recently received an application for the Department of the Army permit related to the proposed dredging of the South Waccamaw Canal. According to the Corps, the project is located west of South Waccamaw Drive, near the town of Murrells Inlet, Ho
J.F. Brennan Company, a Wisconsin based marine construction and environmental remediation company, recently completed the Winnapaug Pond dredging program. Located in Westerly, Rhode Island, this dredging project finished up in less than 6 days, despite the low temperatures. To complete this job, Bre
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, entered into an agreement with the City of Nome on February 2, 2018, to examine the feasibility of constructing navigation improvements at the Port of Nome. On December 14, 2017, a memorandum from the Army Corps’ Director of Civil Works was issued r
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. recently released a video about the installation of Dolwin Gamma platform in the German part of the North Sea. Dolwin Gamma, part of the 900MW DolWin3 offshore grid connection system, is a daughter platform to the DolWin alpha and will be connected to it via a fixed b
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) from Russia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and engage in design and development of contemporary vessels for inland and coastal waterways. Under the agreement, CSL and USC will collaborate on the d
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in its latest announcement that the Brevard County Shore Protection Project is now officially underway. The project will renourish approximately 13.4 miles of shoreline using 1.1 million cubic yards of sand from the Canaveral Shoals Borrow Area II. The contracto
Deltares, in association with Witteveen+Bos, will conduct a study focusing on the natural and man-made dynamics of the Aruba coastline and propose possible solutions. The objective of the study is to get a better understanding of the physical system on the island in order to improve resilience and d
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Jacksonville Harbor deepening project is officially underway as contractors began dredging Contract “A” – the first of multiple construction contracts that will deepen the existing federal navigation channel from 40 to 47 feet. The Dutra Group
