ML Dredging has embarked on another maintenance dredging campaign at the Brighton Marina. The company is currently working in the Visitor bay with the split barge making regular trips in and out of the marina entrance. For the next few weeks, a spud leg backhoe dredger Witton – length of 22.5m and a
Komatsu has just unveiled a literally ground-breaking concept machine. Ready to begin proof-of concept testing, the newly developed excavator concept mates a Toyota hydrogen fuel cell system with the latest comprehensive control and performance technology from Komatsu. Hydrogen has high energy densi
Manson Construction Co. has won a $49 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers for dredging services in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. According to the Mobile District, the contract calls for a 30” pipeline dredge and attendant plant to be used for maintaining harbors, rivers, waterways
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has christened the latest addition to its Dredging Services fleet, the Plough dredger Mohoma. The name Mohoma is derived from one of the eleven South African official languages, Sesotho and means “to plough”, befitting for the function of the vessel. The purc
The VINCY Issues Now facebook page has just released this beautiful BEFORE and AFTER photo from the Kingstown Port Modernisation Project. Under the project, the dredger HAM 316 will move a total of 1.17 million cubic metres of sand from the seabed off the south east coast of St. Vincent, to Kingstow
Central Coast Council crews and machinery will be out on the sand berm at The Entrance channel in the coming weeks, commencing Council’s proactive program of works to move sand from the sand spit at The Entrance. The sand will be relocated to the northern foreshores of Karagi Point Reserve to renour
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company has completed beachfill operations in Avalon and will soon begin work in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. According to the Corps and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the 2023 Avalon beach nourishment project concluded shortly before 9:00pm on Friday
The City of Encinitas will start the annual dredging of San Elijo Lagoon this week, headed up by the City, California State Parks, and the Nature Collective. The dredging work will last until May 25, during regular construction hours. “No dredging activity will occur on the weekends. All dredging wi
The King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth announced today that routine maintenance dredging will be conducted at the Hornet Sailing Club located in Haslar Creek on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour from 22 to 25 May 2023. The dredging is to take place between Fieldhouse and Eagle pontoons from midwa
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul District hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in Bay City, WI, yesterday for a nearly $27 million habitat improvement project, with more than $20 million in contributions from USACE. The Mississippi River Upper Pool 4 habitat project is one of the first in the nati
Registration is open for the well-known Dredging & Reclamation Seminar in Delft. The next edition of IADC’s 5-day Dredging and Reclamation Seminar will be held from 3-7 July 2023 in Delft (NL). Since 1993, over 1,300 participants from all over the world agree: this seminar on dredging and reclamatio
The first phase of the Europa Terminal’s renewal project is officially underway, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges said today. To facilitate the ongoing construction while continuing to accommodate vessels, a new barge quay has been constructed, providing temporary mooring space for inland navigation. The
NEOM has signed an agreement with Riyad Bank for SAR 3 billion ($800 million) in debt financing to help fund the development of Sindalah, marking the first NEOM region to be successfully financed with bank debt. Extending over an area of approximately 840,000 square meters, Sindalah, is one of a gro
The recently delivered trailing suction hopper dredger Hegemann V has embarked on its first mission to dredge the Port of Wilhelmshaven. On behalf of the WSA Weser-Jade-Nordsee, Hegemann Dredging (part of the Hegemann-Reiners Gruppe) is currently carrying out dredging works to maintain the required
