Even these long reach excavators are feeling the love today forming a love heart in the sky for all to see! Happy Valentines Day from Dredging Today team!
The last week of January, Royal IHC’s Training Institute hosted a group of young officers from Van Oord. As part of their preparations, a short course about general dredging and Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers was provided. “In five days, the participants got to know some of their new colleagues, t
After 4 weeks of intensive collaboration, Van den Herik’s dredger Charlock is ready to go again, Royal Niestern Sander said. “With the majority of our work centered around substantial steel repairs, we’re proud to say it’s been a job well done,” the Dutch shipyard said. Royal Niestern Sander is a 10
To maintain the safe depths for the navigational channels and water ways in the area, Dorset Council (UK) will be dredging at West Bay and Lyme Regis. Every year the accumulated sediment that has deposited over the last twelve months is removed from the navigational channels and used to build up the
A £5.6 million flood defense fund to help protect West Yorkshire’s communities and businesses from extreme weather has been signed off by regional leaders, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority said. The investment will be used to refurbish a flood channel in Leeds, redirect floodwater away from bus
After almost a year of work, Boskalis has successfully completed the coastal protection project in Togo and Benin. During this coastal defence scheme, trailing suction hopper dredger Willem van Oranje made almost 800 trips between the offshore sand borrow area and the shore to successfully construct
Work to protect 177 residential properties and five community buildings in Dinas Powys from flooding is set to begin shortly after the Vale of Glamorgan Council secured £1.5 million of Welsh Government funding. That money will be used to make the area more resilient to flooding after many were engul
The Town of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, yesterday commenced work on the Estero Island Beach Sand Truck Haul project. The project will place 112,000 tons of beach compatible sand from Stewart Mine in Immokalee onto Fort Myers Beach to replace sand eroded away by Hurricane Ian. The work area on the bea
The second phase of the Thilafushi land reclamation program has been successfully completed, Housing Development Corporation (HDC) said. The land and shore protection of areas A, B, E, and F of the second phase of the Thilafushi development is a joint venture between Housing Development Corporation
The Dutra Group’s Hopper Dredge Stuyvesant is dredging material from a designated borrow area offshore of Cape Canaveral. This material is transited to Melbourne Beach where it is offloaded through approximately 4,500’ of subline. The material is being used to build a stockpile approximately 26’ hig
Together with its partners HOCHTIEF CZ a. s. and Ballast Nedam, Van Oord’s crews are working on the expansion of Princess Amaliahaven on behalf of Haven Rotterdam. They are constructing 2.5 kilometres of new inland shipping and deep-sea quays, which will have a depth of max. 20 metres. Part of the p
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has begun the last phase of the Fernandina Beach (FL) nourishment project. According to the City, GLDD was contracted through the Corps of Engineers to place sand on the Fernandina beaches. The contractor is on the north end now and will finish up next we
The UAE-based National Marine Dredging Company Group (NMDC Group) yesterday announced its financial results for the full year 2023, reporting record growth in revenues and net profits compared to the previous year. In FY2023, NMDC recorded a revenue of AED 16.7 billion, a 56% surge from the previous
St. Tammany Parish President Michael Cooper recently spoke to the Maritime Museum of Louisiana on the coastal restoration and protection projects around the historic Tchefuncte Lighthouse and Madisonville area. Among the projects mentioned is the $1.6 million Tchefuncte Habitat Restoration & Shoreli
