Damen is set to deliver a customised cutter suction dredger, type CSD500, next month. The dredger will be transported to the site, a mining plant in Eastern Africa, just weeks after receiving the order. “As Damen we have been present in this region for over three decades,” Mr Hugo Doorenbos, Area Sa
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently announced the start of construction on the New Orleans Landbridge Shoreline Stabilization and Marsh Creation project along the eastern shore of Lake Pontchartrain and areas surrounding Lake St. Catherine. The project will res
The Port Authority of Castellon, Spain, has awarded Siport21 the impact evaluation study of the “Delphinidae” project. With a budget of 325.000 euros and six-month execution period, this is one of the major entity real-time ship manoeuvring studies requested by a Spanish Port Authority. The study wi
The Port of Aberdeen welcomed the first commercial vessel to the new South Harbour on Saturday 2 July, as construction of the £400 million port expansion continues at pace. Subsea 7’s Seven Atlantic dive support vessel berthed at Dunnottar Quay to change over the crew, offload project equipment and
Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Albert Bryan Jr., met with the leadership of both the West Indian Company Limited (WICO) and Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) last week to discuss plans for moving forward with the harbor dredging projects in Charlotte Amalie and Gallows Bay. At the meeting,
Dragflow – an Italian manufacturer of dredging and submersible pumps – has just released this very interesting video named ‘Dredging the Port of Podstrana, Croatia’. The accumulation of muddy material in the area of a port is a problem of all cities that are built near water and can become dangerous
In partnership with the City of Charleston, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explored effective, feasible solutions to reduce risk and promote coastal resiliency to Charleston, S.C. This spring, Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, 55th Chief of Engineers, signed a Chief’s Report, marking a formal recommendatio
The Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vetoed a measure establishing a special economic zone and freeport adjacent to the proposed airport city in Bulacan province. In his veto message, Marcos rejected the House Bill (HB) 7575, which seeks the establishment of the Bulacan Airport City S
Van Oord has ordered the construction of two additional water injection dredgers (WIDs) from Kooiman Marine Group. This comes after the successful operation of sister vessels Maas and Mersey in 2021. The new WIDs will have the same specifications, supplemented by innovative optimisations. According
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Miami Beach renourishment work continues placing sand on the beach in the Allison Park (64th Street) section of the project. To date, the crew has placed 65,000 tons of material to restore the beach and strengthen the shoreline. “Residents and visitors will be happy
Conoship International B.V. has just released this amazing photo of the new water injection dredger Aquadelta. The photo was taken last week, during her trip from Scheepswerf Bijlsma to the owner Bagger- en Aannemingsmaatschappij Van der Kamp B.V. The vessel’s sea trials took place this week. The ne
Construction operations on the Lekki Port project in Nigeria are nearing its completion. “We are pleased to announce that the construction of Lekki Port is now at 94.3% completion,” Lekki Deep Sea Port said. “Clearly, we remain on track for the projected start of port operations thanks to the contin
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has announced that beach nourishment operations in Buxton are currently underway. On the afternoon of Thursday, June 30, 2022, the dredge Ellis Island began pumping sand along the beach from a landing point located near the south end of Tower Circle in Buxton and is hea
Federal, state, and local leaders joined JAXPORT and the Army Corps, Jacksonville District in May 2022 to celebrate the completion of the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Project through JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal. The project deepened 11 miles of the federal shipping channel—from the sea
