The Salisbury River Park project has started construction to better protect homes and businesses in the city from flooding along with making improvements to the environment. This £27 million transformational scheme aims to reduce flood risk to over 350 homes and businesses in Salisbury. Also, the pr
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has announced completion of the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Island and Beach Nourishment project – the largest restoration by acreage completed by CPRA to date. According to CPRA, this capital development program restored 1,080 acres of
Napier Port today held the official opening ceremony of the port’s new 350-metre 6 Wharf – Te Whiti. “What a great day, officially declaring 6 Wharf – Te Whiti – open for business. We were joined by hundreds of people who helped us bring our new wharf to Hawke’s Bay – the port team, mana […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, is inviting comments on the Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and the Lower Snake River Channel Maintenance Immediate Need Dredging for Commercial Navigation Environmental Assessment (EA). The Corps is proposing to restore the lowe
The Plaza Marine Group is the largest bunker supplier in the United States to dredging companies on the East Coast. The Group has grown commensurately along with industry needs, product innovations and the environmentally sound means. As a company offering a broad diversity of distribution, sales, s
Better access to the Polish port complex Szczecin-Swinoujscie will soon become a fact with dredging operations underway in the Debica Canal. According to the port officials, the program to improve access to the port of Szczecin in the area of the Debica Canal has entered the most important phase –
HID Shipyard, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, handed over the new tin ore mining dredger Lucky Star 168 to an Indonesian client earlier this month. The vessel is 95m long and has a working weight of 1300t. At the ceremony in the Yangkou Port, Jiangsu Province, HID Company’
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has announced that they are making significant progress on the Avon beach nourishment project. Over the last weekend, GLDD’s hopper dredge Liberty Island placed over 90,000 cubic yards of sand along the shoreline south of the Avon Pier to nourish another 800 feet of the
The Salisbury River Park construction scheme – a project aimed to better protect homes and businesses in the city from flooding – is underway. This £27 million transformational scheme is set to reduce flood risk to over 350 homes and businesses in Salisbury. It will also create 2 hectares of enhance
Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) has just provided an update on the La Digue’s Port Extension Project. According to SPA, works to reroute the underwater electrical cable for construction of the new breakwater has been completed. The contractor is now working on the construction of the breakwater, wh
The St. Paul District, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recently celebrated Earth Day with a ribbon cutting for two of its habitat restoration projects: Harpers Slough and Conway Lake. Both projects are part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration, or UMRR program. The $5.3
Conwy County Borough Council has announced that the next phase of coastal defence work will begin this summer, following further funding from Welsh Government. The current work, which began in May 2021, has seen a 370m long rock barricade built on the beach to protect the Victorian seawall from seve
More than 20,000 tonnes of rock armour boulders for strengthened sea defences are being unloaded at the Port of Sunderland. They have been shipped from Norway on the Stema Barge II and are now being unloaded at Greenwells Quay. The boulders are for a continuing programme of works to help protect the
Just a few weeks ago, Boston Harbor Deep Draft Improvement Project was completed $68 million under budget and four months ahead of schedule. As a result of this project significant navigational improvements to Boston Harbor have been made, reported the Army Corps’ New England District. Deepening Bos
