Port of Townsville Limited has reached an important milestone on the Channel Upgrade project. According to the latest update on the project, more than one million cubic metres of dredge material has been removed from Townsville’s shipping channel. “The dredging component of the project is almost a t
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined federal, state and local officials last Friday in celebrating the start of construction for a new Humble Canal Floodgate, marking the first segment of the critical 98-mile Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Risk Reduction System to be built with federal dollars. U
The Environment Agency is about to begin work on the Canvey Island Southern Shoreline revetment replacement in the county of Essex, England. Work on the £75 million project that will keep homes and businesses in Canvey Island protected from flooding will begin early next year, according to the EA. C
The Barnstable County dredge Cod Fish II is pushing forward to complete the Parkers River dredging project – the first of the season for the County dredge. Originally scheduled to start earlier in November, the project was delayed awaiting the approval of the permit required as well as due to the wi
A&P Tees has successfully completed a hattrick of consecutive dockings of Tarmac’s dredgers worth over £1.5m. The dredgers City of London, City of Westminster and City of Chichester have all benefitted from A&P’s expertise over the past three months. The programme of works included a renewal survey
The officials from Portos RS – Autoridade Portuária dos Portos do RS conducted a technical visit onboard Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) HAM 318 yesterday. The TSHD arrived in the area last month to undertake maintenance dredging works on the access channel to the Port of Rio Grand
A group of international students followed a course on “Sediments, sustainable building blocks” last week, DEME Group said. In the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master of Applied Ecohydrology (MAEH) and the Advanced Master “Think Water” at the Antwerp University, DEME’s Environmental Manager
DP World and Somalia’s Government of Puntland, signed a construction agreement for expansion and upgrade work at the Port of Bosaso yesterday. The 12-month project, which is expected to start in early 2023, will include the development of a 150-metre quay, as well as repairs to the current 215-metre
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted with Marinex Construction recently to provide maintenance dredging of the Wilmington harbor inner ocean bar. Approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of the dredged material will be placed on South Beach on Bald Head Island. The dredge Savannah arrived last wee
Delaware Governor John Carney, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester said that steps are underway for beach nourishment projects in Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach, South Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philad
The recently completed harbor deepening project provided the water depth needed for the 11,714-TEU (containers) ZIM Thailand to call the SSA Marine Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island this week. In a few days, JAXPORT will also welcome one of the vessel’s sister ships, the 11,923-TEU ZI
In June 2021, a Kiewit team began emergency work to establish a temporary 800-foot-long rock barrier across the West False River near Oakley, California, to prevent the San Joaquin River’s saltwater from intruding into the freshwater Delta. Working 24 hours a day, crews installed 112,000 tons of roc
Soil Conservation Service staff are currently very busy working on the beautiful Clarkes Beach to replenish and revegetate sand dunes. Dunes on Main beach and Clarkes beach had been eroded by severe weather and east coast lows, and they are now working with client Byron Shire Council to restore thes
Two multi-million dollar development programs at the Takoradi Port – the Atlantic Container Terminal (ACT) and a dry bulk jetty – have been inaugurated. President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who inaugurated the projects yesterday, said that the ongoing expansion and transf
