Indian Infrastructure magazine will host the 13th Annual Conference on Dredging in India on September 6-7, 2022, at ITC Maratha, Mumbai. The conference is supported by Ministry of Shipping and Sagarmala. Lead sponsor is DEME Group and co-sponsors are Adani Ports, Royal IHC and Nonius Group. Facts ab
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has planned a public hearing for August 11, at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Town of Blue Hill office about proposed dredging of the Blue Hill Harbor. Blue Hill Selectman Butler Smythe said that there will also be an overview of where Blue Hill is in the [&helli
The new rock groyne at Point Richards is almost complete and new channel navigation markers are planned to be installed over the next two weeks, directing boaters safely past the groyne, Better Boating Victoria said. The Point Richards boating facility upgrade, which included 50 additional boat and
Construction is nearing completion for the McGowan Government’s landmark Ocean Reef Marina development. The construction of two new breakwaters at the entrance to Ocean Reef Marina are nearly complete as the next stage in works is about to commence. Both breakwaters have been built out to their full
Van Oord has just posted a very interesting photo from the Lincolnshire coastal protection work. The project involves beach nourishment across a distance of 20 kilometres and requires around 400,000 cubic metres of sand annually over the four years of the project. “Together with the UK’s Environment
The Nadi River dredging project, aimed to protect households, communities’ farms and infrastructure adjacent to the river, is now underway. A total of 9 kilometers of dredging work will be undertaken by the Ministry of Waterways under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with Hong Yuan Dev
Mr. Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Honorable Minister of State, Ministry of Shipping, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, took the driving seat at his visit yesterday to DSC Dredge’s Reserve, La facility, getting a first hand view of DSC Vision. On his visit he was accompanied by many disti
The USACE Baltimore District has awarded a $3.17 million contract to White Lake Dock and Dredge for maintenance dredging and southern jetty rehabilitation for the Fishing Creek Federal navigation channel. The project, in coordination with the Town of Chesapeake Beach, consists of dredging approximat
Neptune Marine has just released these beautiful photos of its recently delivered EuroHopper 400 dredger Sandborn. The EuroHopper range is designed and built to work the toughest environments, undertaking maintenance dredging projects in ports and coastal areas, as well as sand and aggregates extrac
Dredging works to improve safety and navigation in Rosslyn Bay Boat Harbour are now underway, Central Queensland Today reports. Member for Keppel, Brittany Lauga, said that a $1.5 million contract had been awarded to experienced dredging operator – Hall Contracting. “These important works aim to rem
Joint Base Langley-Eustis’ Third Port, the U.S. Army’s pier complex sitting where Skiffe’s Creek meets the James River, completed a multi-month dredging project recently. The dredging, a 24/7 operation taking place April 18 – June 15, was part of a regularly scheduled maintenance, which occurs every
Researchers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have developed dredging optimization models using artificial intelligence and operations research methods to help prioritize and schedule dredging operations across the enterprise. Dredging is the largest individual item in the USACE civil wo
USACE Portland District has just released this amazing photo of the dredger Essayons, taken on the Columbia River halfway between Longview and Astoria. On any given day during the dredge season, the Essayons’ crew is working specific areas that were surveyed, mapped and found to be in need of dredgi
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has just released this very interesting video about the Brigantine dredging project. Mayor of Brigantine City, NJ, Vince Sera said that the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) changed its course on the project, moving it ahead to this y
