Kingston District Council will receive $1.9 million funding support for a much-needed extension of its existing Wyomi Beach Rock Seawall. Erosion at Wyomi Beach has been of significant concern for Council and the community over a long period of time. Mayor Kay Rasheed said: “We acknowledge that coas
Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has just won another multi-million dredging/land reclamation contract at Paradip Port. According to DCI, the 60 CR INR Reclamation Dredging Contact for the year 2022-23 comes from the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL). As reported, the latest contract incl
Following on from the success of the previous online courses Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure, CEDA and IADC have decided to organise an onsite course on 13 & 14 December 2022 at the HR Wallingford Head Office in Oxfordshire (UK). Experienced lecturers will describe the latest thinking and ap
Major Argentinian contractor Merco Vial S.A. is about to expend its fleet with a brand new Damen CSD650 cutter suction dredger. The delivery of the CSD650 includes the supply of a matching booster station, enhancing the flexibility of the set-up immensely. The new dredger is a customised stock vesse
IHC Dredging and Cochin Shipyard have signed an agreement for a design and engineering, hardware and support package for the licensed construction of a Beagle 12 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The new TSHD will be built by Cochin Shipyard for the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI). With th
Earlier this year, Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis started work on the Texel beach nourishment project in the Netherlands. According to Rijkswaterstaat, maintenance of the Texel coastline kicked off in early September and will continue until the spring of 2023. For this project, Boskalis will dredge an
USACE Commanding General Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon and key staff met yesterday with representatives of the hopper dredge industry at USACE headquarters in Washington, D.C. Discussions included current and future navigation program requirements and funding, dredging safety, and continuing partnerships
Since the award of the construction contract and issuance of the Notice to Proceed over 2-1/2 years ago, Charter Contracting Company, LLC and the Army Corps continue to make good progress on the Muddy River dredging project. According to the latest update on the project, the contractor has been acti
The USACE Philadelphia District has signed a feasibility cost sharing agreement with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to initiate a new study for the Delaware Inland Bays. The agreement, signed by USACE Philadelphia District Commander Lt. Col. Ramon Brig
Charleston Harbor is now the deepest harbor on the East Coast at 52 feet. At 52 feet, the biggest ships calling the East Coast can access South Carolina Ports’ terminals any time, any tide. Ships filled with record imports and heavy exports can seamlessly sail through Charleston Harbor to SC Ports’
Port of Antwerp-Bruges and PSA Antwerp recently gave the official green light for the renewal of the quayside and terminal at Europa Terminal. The works, which will take about nine years and be carried out in three phases, will ensure that the latest generation of container ships can continue to cal
At the moment, a mayor port expansion project is underway at the Swedish Port of Gothenburg. The expansion will result in an additional 220.000m2 of terminal surface and 460m more quay length. The project has been divided in various stages: the DOP200 has proven its worth in the later stages of phas
Teesworks is set to start the next phase of dredging in the River Tees at the end of March next year, during which the material will be disposed of at sea, UK Daily News reports. The first phase of dredging, in which the material was deposited on land, began in September 2022 and ended on […]
The dredging work on 20 rivers in the Bangladesh southern region is starting today, local media reports. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) will run the operation at 47 points on a dozen of waterway routes in Barishal region. “Our target is to remove around three million cubic metre
