GPM Marine crews have been busy the past weeks dredging the Swansea Channel ahead of the summer boating season. Dredging at the Swansea Channel began Thursday, September 7, after the Australian Maritime Safety Authority gave their approval for work to commence. According to GPM Marine, all dredged m
The Belgian Minister of Energy, Tinne Van der Straeten, visited the large-scale model of the Princess Elisabeth Island yesterday at DHI’s wave pool lab in Hørsholm, Denmark. Measuring 8 metres in length and 3 metres in width, the model is one of the largest ever tested in DHI’s wave basins, and it i
The land reclamation operations of the first phase of Hulhumalé 3 in the Maldives are now complete, Urbanco said. The work on Hulhumalé 3 began in September 2022. The area is designated to allocate new housing plots under the Binveriya Scheme, announced by the Government. This capital land reclamati
The Port of Montreal has just released this very interesting video about their latest expansion project: construction of a new terminal in Contrecoeur. Work on the future terminal will be carried out in hybrid mode:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has just released a beautiful video named ‘Shoal Harbor Maintenance Dredging 2023’. In the video, Peter Kuglstatter, project engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, discusses the maintenance dredging of Shoal Harbor, and benefic
The last decade witnessed an increasing level of attention to sustainability and sustainable development across all sectors all over the world, including the dredging industry. Also, the dredging industry has vital roles in the global sustainability transition and the dredging community has to work
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has completed work for the 2023 season to dredge an emergency navigable channel in the Hay River Harbour, a critical link in the territory’s transportation network. The long-standing navigation channel in the Hay River Harbour has been affected by n
The Baku Shipyard LLC and the Damen Shipyards Gorinchem B.V. have signed a contract for the construction of a cutter suction dredger CSD650. This is a self-propelled or stationary vessel that uses a rotating cutter head to loosen the material in the hard ground. The CSD can work in water depths up t
Weeks Marine’s cutterhead dredge J.S. CHATRY has completed the augmentation of the underwater sill in the Mississippi River. According to Army Corps New Orleans District, the sill which is now -30 feet below water, has been operationally complete. The sill, first completed in July 2023, was construc
Starting in the summer of 2022 and working closely from the outset with classification society Bureau Veritas, Damen has developed and gained approval in principle for designs of methanol-powered compact vessels. By working closely firstly with Bureau Veritas and later with the Dutch and Belgian fla
This morning, Mxtv released the latest video update from the New Manila International Airport (NMIA). This will be the Philippines’ largest and most sophisticated airport and the dredging works are moving ahead according to schedule. The land creation scheme was designed according to the highest tec
The Astrakhan Oblast based Stroyliderplus shipyard hosted an official launching ceremony for a non-self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) Nikolai Rusanov yesterday. The vessel is being built for state-owned Rosmorport and will be deployed for dredging operations on the Volga-Caspian Sea Shippin
The Suffolk County Department of Public Works (DPW) is about to begin dredging project near the Shinnecock Inlet, Town of Southampton, NY. In an effort to fortify the beach and dune area on the West side of the Shinnecock Inlet, Suffolk County DPW will undertake this dredging project that will place
The Government of Canada is pledging $150 million towards the Port of Montreal’s expansion project northeast of the city. The project would see a new container terminal for the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) built in Contrecoeur – about 70 kilometres from Montreal – along the Saint-Lawrence River. Th
