The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended the public comment period for its proposed Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for maintenance dredging and dredged material placement for the Miami Harbor Navigation Project at Port Miami, in Miami Dade Count
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District in concert with the Philadelphia District and the Marine Design Center recently awarded a $11.4 million contract to Southwest Shipyard LP of Houston, Texas, for a new crane barge on the St. Marys River. “The new crane barge will perform critical loc
Kenmare Resources plc, the company that operates the Moma Titanium Minerals Mine in northern Mozambique, has just introduced a trading update for the quarter ending 30 September 2022. The company reported the primary zircon production of 17,300 tonnes, a 10% increase compared to Q3 2021 (15,700 tonn
Once a year, industry expert Charles Johnson conducts a Dreducation Class, a dredge operators training course designed to educate and enable industry newcomers on how to become more productive and enable them to work more efficiently. The 2022 course is set to take place on Tuesday, October 18th fro
Jan De Nul Group and Neptune Marine today held a launching ceremony for the new water injection dredger Cosette near Dordrecht in the Netherlands. This newbuild is a sister vessel to the Pancho, delivered earlier this year. The design of both vessels is based on an existing vessel design from the Ne
Port of Aberdeen has just released the latest visual update of its transformational port expansion project at Aberdeen South Harbour. “We are fast approaching the next major construction milestone at the end of October, when around 80% of the quayside will be complete and fully operational,” the Por
The Environment Agency and East Devon District Council have spent £12 million of Government funding, building new and improving existing defences at The Royal Avenue, Camperdown Creek and The Esplanade. The flood risk to residents and 400 businesses in the area has been reduced from a 4% chance of f
Rohde Nielsen has made good progress dredging the Fremantle Ports Deep Water Channel, placing the beach-quality sand onto the Port Beach. According to the City of Fremantle, between July and October 2022, 78,000m³ of sand has been placed onto the Port Beach which is slightly over 50% of the target.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $750,000 grant for an ongoing ADB-supported technical assistance program which is reducing the vulnerability of Fijian coastal communities to the impacts of climate change. “The project is being supported by the Ireland Trust Fund for Building Climate
The IADC-CEDA recently published a Fact Sheet titled “Beneficial Use of Dredged Material” which describes methods and answers questions about how to deal with large quantities of sediments in relation to dredging projects and ecological developments. Dredging is essential for the maintenance and dev
Royal IHC announced yesterday that the first of a series of four electrically powered dredgers for Vale has been commissioned. The dredgers will be operating in the Projeto Gelado where they are reprocessing iron ore tailings. Given the conditions in Brazil, and those of the Gelado dam, the CSD’s ar
Two weeks from now, the 2022 WEDA Pacific Chapter Meeting will be held in downtown San Francisco. The meeting is taking place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SOMA from Wednesday, October 26th to 28th, 2022. As in the previous years, the conference is aimed at encouraging dialog between t
Qingzhou Golden Julong Equipment Manufacturing has delivered one set portable cutter suction dredger to PowerChina (a wholly State-owned company) – to be used for a construction and dredging project in China. The brand new piece of equipment is a 12 inch cutter suction dredger, equipped one set 620H
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sayonara has completed its sea trials, Concordia Damen Shipbuilding said. During the sea trials, all systems are properly tested and the TSHD performed perfectly. ????? ???????? ????????? has delivered all dredging gear, including the D500 mm trailing pipe,
