An Ellicott 360-Swinging Ladder Dredge is currently operating at the Port of Garibaldi – the home for many key businesses in the city of Garibaldi, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard. The dredge named “The Laura” is operated by the State of Oregon and is providing maintenance dredging to ensure navigab
Up to 60,000 cubic metres of shingle is moved to maintain protection to homes and businesses around Seaford, the Environment Agency said. The twice-yearly maintenance work on the beaches in the area maintains protection for the town from coastal flooding. The beach provides a soft-engineered flood d
The delivery of an aquatic ecosystem restoration project at Harlan County Lake, Nebraska, was initiated upon the request of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The partnership project is authorized under Section 1135 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 and is expected to be an investment
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. recently urged the Biden Administration to quickly implement investments in living shoreline projects from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act. In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
One of the world’s largest hopper dredgers, Jan De Nul Group’s Galileo Galilei has arrived in Guyana to commence work on the Vreed-en-Hoop development project. According to NRG Holdings Incorporated, the consortium behind the project, arrival of TSHD Galileo Galilei marks the beginning of the reclam
At the beginning of the month, together with Royal IHC’s partner Frontline Engineering, the Kinderdijk based supplier of maritime technology organised a dredging simulator training in Bangkok for the Royal Irrigation Department. The training focused on many of the basics of CSD dredging: start-up dr
Four children drowned in a five-meter-deep dredging pit in southern Cambodia’s Kandal province, according to a provincial police report released on Wednesday. The accident occurred in the late afternoon of Tuesday in Ang Snuol district when they got down into the water to search for clams and snails
Wicklow County Council has been successful in securing Urban Regeneration Development Funding from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to carry out improvement works to Bray Harbour. These works will include: Review potential for harbour wall extension, dredging of the waterbody
Town of Yarmouth Massachusetts will later today begin dredging and beach nourishment operations at the Parkers River and Seagull Beach. According to the town officials, there will be an excavated pit on Seagull Beach which will serve as a dewatering basin for dredge spoils from a channel dredging op
Damen Shipyards and Van Stee Offshore have signed a contract for delivery of the first Multibuster 8020 – a new class of 80-metre, ultra-shallow draught, multi-purpose workboats. Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, and Arjan van Stee of Van Stee Offshore inked the deal during the Offsho
The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance team was busy recently fixing multiple client cargoes for MV Fairplayer in Europe, all destined for Africa. Among the loaded equipment was recently completed hopper dredger Sayonara. The ship, weighing approx. 940 tonnes was previously an inland vessel before it was newly conv
Jackson has completed work on a multi-million pound project to raise a 30km flood bank on the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir. Following 6 years of construction, the project maintains the standard of flood protection to more than 2,000 properties and 67,000ha of agricultural land. The raising of
Boskalis has just announced the successful completion of an important bird habitat restoration and enhancement project in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. According to Boskalis, the newly restored habitat named Hooge Platen is a breeding site for coastal birds in the Western Scheldt. But at
The Government of Liberia – through the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) with support from UNDP – formally launched the implementation of the Sinoe coastal resilience project during an inception workshop last week. The project funded by the Global Environment
