City Bank has arranged an ECA (Export Credit Agency) backed long term financing of EUR 28.63 million to facilitate Western Engineering Limited, a local leading dredging solution provider, importing 10 dredgers from Royal IHC, Netherlands. Under the arrangement, Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Busines
Work to restore the nearly 150-year-old North Pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is about to begin, the Lincoln Park Conservancy said. The $7.3 million raised for the project will support its first two phases, which are expected to finish in November. The first phase of restoration includes dredging of
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District and Jefferson County have signed a design agreement (DA) for the Jefferson County Ecosystem Restoration Project. The project was authorized by Congress in 2020 at an initial total project cost of $60 million, which includes design and construction
Gippsland Ports recently provided a regular update on the planned and actual progress of the dredging activities at the Lakes Entrance, Victoria. Summarizing the 2021 season, Gippsland Ports said that 570 loads of dredged material have been placed in the Dredged Material Grounds. They also added tha
The ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), a wholly owned subsidiary of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), has granted accreditation to the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) for ten certificate programs. Part of ANAB’s outreach efforts to accredit clients in the Gulf region,
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has just announced the successful delivery of the first dual-fuel Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) to Van Oord. Named Vox Ariane, the high-specification dredger has a hopper capacity of 10,500 cubic meters and can run on LNG. It is the sixth dredger bu
Rohde Nielsen is part of the port development and capital dredging project named “Lynetteholm Enterprise 1” – Copenhagen’s man-made island. From December 2021 to December 2022, RN units Ajax R, Roar R, Hugin R, Munin R, Ull R, and Balder R, will dredge approximately 51.300 m3 to deposit onshore and
Rotech Subsea has completed the excavation of two deepwater births at a key port on the River Clyde, Glasgow. They completed the excavation of the 600m2 area to client specification ahead of schedule. “Rotech’s powerful TRS2 tool was selected to excavate the pits due to its very high flow rate capab
Staff members of the Dutch Embassy in New Zealand recently took a tour of the hopper dredger Albatros to find out more about the vessel and its current dredging operations in the area. “We would like to extend a big thank you to Dutch Dredging, Ron and the crew for inviting us onto the Albatros [&he
The Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation project is now complete. Nearly 2 million cubic yards of sediment were dredged from the Gulf of Mexico and pumped 5 miles inland to build more than 300 acres of marsh and 2.3 miles of terraces to increase sediment deposition and reduce the impacts of wave erosion a
A new decision-support tool could become a game changer in the dredging of ship channels, the University of Houston said. Millions of dollars are at stake every time a major ship channel is cleaned up. Delays in dredging can cost even more by triggering increased risks, repeated maintenance and lost
The new boat ramp at Onslow is taking shape with contractors recently using excavation equipment to allow water to flood the newly completed boat ramp basin for the first time. According to the Department of Transport WA, dredging and construction of revetments is close to completion as part of the
The U.S. EPA has initiated its third five-year review of the cleanup of the Hudson River PCBs Superfund site, which extends from Hudson Falls, New York, to New York City. Dredging to remove polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from a 40-mile stretch of the upper Hudson River between Fort Edward and Troy
Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has just provided a detailed overview of technical field trips which are planned as part of the WODCON XXIII conference. As reported, two very different, interesting and informative technical field trips are offered to WODCON delegates and exhibitors on Friday 20
