Dewberry, a Fairfax-headquartered engineering service company, has just announced that they will support dredge material reuse plan as part of a coastal Mississippi restoration project. Under the contract, Dewberry will provide master planning services to the Mississippi Department of Environmental
A consortium consisting of PT BITA Enarcon Engineering, Maritime & Transport Business Solutions (MTBS) and lead contractor Witteveen+Bos Indonesia was commissioned recently to study the feasibility of an inland shipping route between the industrial area in the Cikarang/Bekasi region and the Port of
Caterpillar has just rolled out the Cat® 304.5E2 XTC mini hydraulic excavator, their first model in the Xtra Tool Carrier (XTC) lineup. Built on the E2 platform, the new machine has a skid steer coupler interface for added versatility and work tool integration. This manual coupler allows for use of
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council will host a series of webinars to review the process used to develop its Initial Funded Priorities List (FPL) as part of the Council-Selected Restoration Component. The goal of the webinars is to identify what worked and what could be improved to further
Lake Erie is one of Ohio’s greatest assets and its harbors must be dredged regularly to keep ports open for shipping, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said in its latest announcement. Much of the material dredged from the lake currently is dumped into the open waters of the lake. However, mo
Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered DOP submersible dredge pump to the Cadzand dredging project in the Netherlands. The dredging scheme, being undertaken by the Dutch contractor Martens & Van Oord, has quite a challenge in store – unexploded ordnance (UXO). The village of Cadzand is located in th
FSUE “Rosmorport” has announced that the company’s Azovo-Chernomorsky Basin Branch recently purchased self-propelled hopper barge Aleksandr Shatalov. The vessel, built in 1988 at the Romanian Drobeta Turnu-Severin shipyard, is designed to take out soil from the dredging site to the disposal site. To
The Isle of Wight council and the Environment Agency have launched a three month public consultation on a draft Coastal Strategy for the West Wight shoreline. The strategy coastline includes the towns of Yarmouth, Cowes, East Cowes, Freshwater, Totland, Colwell, Newport Harbor and surrounding areas.
Annual harbor dredging and beach works are set to take place in Lyme Regis this week. The works will be carried out between 7 and 13 April when the tides are at one of their lowest points in the year. Works are restricted to these dates as tide levels dictate the amount of access hired […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, has just released a photo of the dredge Padre Island working in the Savannah outer harbor. The photo taken on March 30th 2016, shows the Padre Island of Great Lakes Doc & Dredge Company deepening the outer channel as part of the Savannah Harbor Ex
Wasa Dredging, a Finnish dredging equipment manufacturer and contractor, has just announced two important milestones. The company recently locked down the Rauma Fairway and Harbor dredging project. According to Wasa Dredging, this huge scheme is scheduled to last over 2 years. The project will invol
At the request of the town of Cohasset, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, is proposing urgently-needed maintenance dredging of the Cohasset Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) in Cohasset and Scituate, Mass. The town of Cohasset is the local sponsor. The immediate proposed
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asks the public to use extra caution in the waterways and on land features within the Mile Point construction area on the St. Johns River. The construction zone contains a variety of vessels, including large barges and a dredge with pipelines, in the Chicopit Bay are
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has concluded the acquisition of the dredging activities and assets of STRABAG Wasserbau GmbH. The agreed price of the transaction was EUR 70 million. With the transaction Boskalis acquires the equipment, personnel and relevant contracts of STRABAG Wasserba
