The long-awaited St. Joseph Peninsula Coastal Structures Project in Gulf County, Florida, has been temporarily rescheduled and is now expected to start construction sometime in 2025. After two rounds of bidding, in August and again in October of 2024, one bid was received each time and both bids rec
Last week, Brig. Gen. Bill Hannan, NWD commander, visited the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (NWP) hopper dredgers Essayons and Yaquina as they undergo maintenance, repairs and upgrades. Also, Dan Howard, NWP navigation chief, Chris Gibbons, Essayons lead port engineer, Jane Favors
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock has won a $10.3 million USACE contract for maintenance dredging works in Charleston, South Carolina. According to the Corps, the work consists of maintenance dredging of approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of required material from the Charleston Harbor Entrance Channel.
BCP Council has completed major works to protect Hamworthy Park against future coastal erosion for the next 20 years. A 200 metre stretch of sea wall has been reinforced on the eastern promenade with low carbon concrete, and new steps have been built to the shoreline. Also, the work included repairs
After carefully considering public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its third periodic review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA said that they looked at all the project data for water, fish and sediment collected bet
The Barnstable County dredge team has started dredging and beach nourishment operations south of the Bass River Bridge. According to the Yarmouth Division of Natural Resources, dredging and beach nourishment of the Bass River / West Dennis Beach commenced yesterday, January 16, 2025. Routine mainten
ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. (ENKA) has completed its first towing operation in the new year – Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) Vesalius, from Port Kuryk to Port Bautino. ENKA is a global engineering and construction firm headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Also, the Turkish giant provides ful
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has released a draft version of the agency’s annual spending plan for Fiscal Year 2026. The plan is the largest single-year investment in Louisiana’s coast to date, with $1.8 billion allotted to the design, engineering, and constructi
Royal IHC has just announced the successful delivery of another Beaver 50 cutter suction dredger (CSD) to its African customer. According to the Dutch giant, the dredger is currently being commissioned. After commissioning, the Royal IHC crews will “enter the start up and guarantee phase where an IH
The Constanța Beaches (Phase III) project in Romania is progressing well, Van Oord said in its latest project update. The beach reinforcement works at the seaside resorts of Olimp, Jupiter-Neptun, and Balta-Mangalia (Lots 7, 8, and 9) are now finished. Commissioned by Administratia Bazinala de Apa D
Last year, Jan De Nul Group finalized a new deep-water port in Nador, Morocco. Strategically located and equipped with modern infrastructure, the port is set to drive economic growth in the region. Located on the western side of the ‘Cap des Trois Fourches’ peninsula, near the Nador city, the new po
Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) said that more than $10 million in grants will be given and distributed to five harbor maintenance and construction projects around the state. The grants, through the Harbor Assistance Program, will support projects in La Cr
ML (UK) Dredging Ltd recently kicked off a dredging campaign in Newhaven Marina. The dredging, which commenced in late November, is being carried out by the backhoe dredger WITTON II. Self-propelled split hopper barge SPLIT THREE is transporting the spoil material from the Marina to the disposal gro
After successfully completing dredging works in Poole Harbor, Jenkins Marine’s dredger ‘C H Horn’ has arrived in Ipswich to start work on the Woolverstone Marina dredging project. C H Horn is an extremely efficient and manoeuvrable self contained dredger, able to load her 125m3 capacity hopper well
