In just one week, WEDA’s 2022 Gulf Coast Chapter Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA. The meeting will take place at the Loews New Orleans Hotel from November 7-9, 2022. According to WEDA, the Gulf Coast Conference is to be well-attended by a wide range of navigation stakeholders, including dred
Baggerbedrijf De Boer BV – Dutch Dredging recently revealed a photo of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Mahury operating in the Wadden Sea. The Mahury is performing maintenance dredging of the Wadden Sea channels and ports under the Rijkswaterstaat Projects and Maintenance Program (PPO). T
Sediment is being removed from the channel between Upper and Lower Twin Lakes, Coeur d’Alene Press reports. The main goal of the project is to improve water quality for wildlife, boaters and the overall community. The Twin Lakes Improvement Association, a nonprofit formed in 1956 to improve and pres
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, has just released this very interesting video named ‘Dredge Hurley Slideshow’. USACE uses the dustpan dredge Hurley to remove sediment from within the navigation channels of the Mississippi River. Dustpan dredges are unique to the Mississippi River
The role of modelling, its benefits and limitations, and what it needs to be used successfully on a dredging project is often poorly understood and this in turn can lead to poorer design and environmental outcomes. The latest IADC-CEDA Fact Sheet: ‘Models and Modelling for dredging’ describes the mo
The Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) has presented grant checks to the City of Cocoa for recent projects at Lee Wenner park including the boat ramp dredging project. Thanks to the grants from FIND, the basin has been dredged and restored to allow for larger vessels to access the Cocoa Villa
Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey will get a first look at the city’s $9 million dredging project today when he and other dignitaries visit Plum Island. At 11:00 am, U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, D-Salem, will join the state’s junior senator; State Senator Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester; State Senat
Jan De Nul Group has successfully finished work on the Matinhos beach renourishment project in Brazil. According to Dieter Dupuis, Project Manager at Jan De Nul, last week – in the presence of the state government of Paraná – Jan De Nul Group concluded the beach enlargement in Matinhos. A stretch of
DEME Group highlighted importance of the Hedwige Prosper area on the Dutch-Belgian border today. On behalf of De Vlaamse Waterweg nv (the Flemish Waterways Authority), DEME and partners worked together on the five-year polder project, whereby 465 hectares of land have been given back to nature by cr
Implementing nature-based engineering solutions is a growing field, but it’s not yet a mainstream practice. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are hoping to change that. Working under a memorandum of understanding,
Boskalis’ colleagues at Boskalis Terramare, together with their client and project partners, have been awarded the Project of the Year 2022 award by the Finnish Project Management Association for the deepening of the Vuosaari Channel in the Port of Helsinki. They deepened the channel from 11 to 13 m
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis has announced that the Empire State Development Corporation will be awarded a $48 million federal grant to fund a dredging project in Staten Island’s Arthur Kill Terminal to make way for an offshore wind staging and assembly facility. The funds were secured through t
The Paducah City Commission (KY) members at is meeting on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, voted on a long-term dredging contract with Dredge America Inc. The Board approved a three-year construction contract with Dredge America, Inc. which includes hydraulic dredging of sediment downstream of the Transie
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced more than $703 million to fund 41 projects in 23 states and one territory that will improve port facilities through the Maritime Administration’s Port Infrastructure Development Program. The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure
