The Shearer Group, Inc. (TSGI) announced recently that Gateway Dredging has taken delivery of a 55’ 1,200 HP twin screw conventional towboat. TSGI provided the design and engineering services to JB Marine Service, Inc. where the towboat was constructed in St. Louis, MO. It was designed to ABS rules
The Borough of Harvey Cedars has just announced that a beach replenishment scheme will begin in the Borough within the next 7 days. This project will repair and restore the dunes as well as replenish over 100 feet of flat beach from Cumberland Avenue to 78th Street. The contractor, Great Lakes Dredg
Weeks Marine Inc. is about to restart the beach renourishment activities at the Town of Hilton Head Island. According to the town’s latest beach nourishment update, the contractor expects to restart beach renourishment activities in South Forest Beach no later than October 19, 2016. The town is aimi
DEME Group, a Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering company, opened its new office in Bremen, Germany yesterday. Since last year, DEME is consolidating all German activities in Bremen and the office serves as the regional headquarters for the company’s operations in Germany. For alm
Aquatec Group, a UK based builder of instruments, services and solutions for measurement, monitoring and communication underwater, has just announced that the winner of the Equipment Awards 2016 – Phase 1 is Nicholas Jordan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nicholas’s project on the Impacts
Works to construct a 97 meter rock revetment at Mount Martha’s Craigie Beach are currently underway. The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), in partnership with Mornington Peninsula Shire Council (MPSC), are undertaking the works as part of the Victorian Government’s Coastal
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sospan Dau is currently performing periodic dredging operations at the Shoreham Port. The maintenance dredging, to take place approx from 14th October to 31st December 2016, will be undertaken in the Approaches, Western and Eastern Arms of Shoreham Harbor.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Corps Connection has just released a video about the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, named ‘On the Road Again: LTG Semonite at SHEP’. In the video, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, reports from the Savannah
Deltares experts have developed a new Augmented Reality (AR) design tool called ‘The Sandbox’ for coastal interventions anywhere in the world. The Sandbox was already on display at the Sand Motor congress in September but the new version can be seen soon at the Flood Risk Conference in Lyon. The San
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District’s commander, Col. Michael Ellicott, recently visited the site of on-going stone placement operations along the Mississippi River at Hopefield, Ark., located at river mile 735R. This work is part of the Mississippi River Channel Improvement Project wh
Two local contractors in Delta State, Nigeria, recently took delivery of 10-inch Wolverine Class Dredges, designed and manufactured by DSC Dredge at its Greenbush, Michigan, facility. As the political capital of Delta State, Asaba is a rapidly expanding city along the banks of the Niger River Delta.
The 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management will take place in Lyon, France, from 17-20 October 2016. Researchers, policy makers and practitioners from across the world will share experience and progress made in flood risk research, policy and management practice. Royal HaskoningDHV is part
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 10-16, 2016). Royal IHC Hands Over Hopper Dredger JUN YANG 1 The handing over ceremony of Asia’s largest trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1 is being held this morning in Guangzhou City, Chi
After months of uncertainty, the free trade agreement with Canada is finally heading in the right direction. A German Court and the European Parliament both issued positive statements paving the way for a ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The EU-Canada agreement
