Ms Yasmin Catley MP – Member for Swansea – met with representatives from the Maritime Infrastructure Delivery Office (MIDO) last week to discuss plans to dredge the Swansea Channel. MIDO advised an emergency dredging contract is being finalised with works to be complete prior to Christmas. The Chann
The joint project of DEME International and Van Oord to modernise the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway in Poland has been nominated as a candidate for the IADC Safety Award 2022. DEME and Van Oord completed the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway dredging project in March 2022. Starting in September 2018, the
The provincial government of Bulacan, the Philippines, conducted simultaneous dredging operations in rivers and creeks in the City of Malolos and the town of Hagonoy a couple of days ago. Despite the rain, Governor Daniel Fernando visited the locations of the dredging operation along with First Dist
The USACE Galveston District and non-federal partners Texas General Land Office, together with Gulf Coast Protection District hosted some very special visitors last week. The USACE Southwestern Division Commander, Col. Kenneth Reed, and Galveston District Commander, Col. Rhett Blackmon, gave a short
Col. Damon Delarosa, USACE Alaska district commander, presented at the Infrastructure Grant Symposium – hosted by Senator Lisa Murkowski – at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage yesterday. His presentation focused on partnering with USACE on engineering solutions for local challenges directed at city a
Dare County, in partnership with EJE Dredging Service, has announced that Miss Katie – the shallow-draft hopper dredge that has been under construction in Morgan City, Louisiana, since March 2021 – has officially arrived on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Miss Katie departed from Conrad Shipyard
Van Oord and DEME have won a contract from Allseas in support of the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project, located offshore Northern Australia. According to the two companies, the joint venture will be responsible for providing support for the shallow water pipeline installation scope in Northern Ter
Stamford Mayor Caroline Simmons announced last week that the city has been awarded $3.3. million in funding through the Small Harbor Improvement Projects Program (SHIPP) Grant. The 2015 Cummings Park and West Beach Master Plan included a concept design for a new marina to replace the one destroyed d
The City of Rockingham has successfully secured $196,000 from the State Government’s Coastal Adaptation and Protection Grants Program, to help deliver important sand renourishment works along beaches within Warnbro Sound. A number of beaches in the north-eastern area of Warnbro Sound are experienci
Earlier this September, Netherlands based Damen Shipyards Group successfully organised the first Dredging Seminar in Thailand. The Guest of Honor, His Excellency Mr Remco van Wijngaarden, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Thailand, opened the event by highlighting the existing cooperat
The Town of Cedar Lake (IN) is making final preparations before the official launch of their lake dredging project. At the moment, the town is building a dewatering facility and had to bore under the CSX Train line to place some of the pipe that the water and sediment will flow through for the dredg
Leadership from the Ports of Longview and Kalama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have agreed to fund an estimated $2.1 million study. The study will investigate what changes or improvements engineers can make to turning basins in the Columbia River to help larger, deeper-drafting vessels, safe
The USACE Memphis District awarded a contract to perform dike construction and maintenance at Donaldson Point, near New Madrid, Missouri (River Mile 903), August 24, 2022. The Corps is partnering with Commercial Towing Interests, represented by the Lower Mississippi River Committee (LOMRC), to execu
Royal Smals dredging crews are currently busy in Portugal. In cooperation with professional partners and authorities, Smals Dredging is executing challenging maintenance dredging works at ‘North of Porto’. “The entrance of a shallow tidal harbour with heavy currents is being desilted and with the se
