Coastal Partners – part of Havant Borough Council – have just announced that work is underway on the next South Hayling Beach recycling campaign. Beach recycling is the movement of material from areas of beach build up to areas of erosion. This helps to restore beach levels and increase the standard
Danos completed four coastal restoration projects in south Louisiana recently, on behalf of Shell Pipeline Company. “Louisiana’s coast is vital to our industry and our environment,” said Paul Danos, CEO of Danos. “Using technology to help restore the ecosystem is one way Danos is living our purpose
Martens en Van Oord, specialising in roadworks and civil and hydraulic engineering, is once again in the Port of Antwerp. The MvO dredging crews are now busy working on the deepening operations in the Vierde Havendok area of the Port. “The Port of Antwerp is a well-known site to us, in 2019 and 2020
The Port of Gdańsk, one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea, has been a huge construction site in recent years. An investment of key importance to the development of the Inner Port has just been completed, related to the deepening of the fairway and the modernisation of more than 5 km of quays
Once again, March proved to be an active month for incidents on the sea when it comes to Evergreen Marine-owned container ships. Nearly a year after the Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal, another Evergreen boxship, this time the Ever Forward got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay. According to the U
Officials of the Army Corps of Engineers recently visited Port Freeport to review the ongoing harbor channel improvement project. The Freeport Harbor Channel Improvement Project is a $295 million federal cost-shared project that was authorized by Congress in 2014. It consists of the deepening and pa
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) 2022 Midwest Chapter Meeting will kick off tomorrow (March 22) at Hyatt Regency in Green Bay, WI. According to Western Dredging Association, the meeting will be an exciting educational and social event, with a great lineup of presentations and amazing speakers
IMS Dredge has just released this amazing video named ‘Bay Island Drone Footage’. This birds eye view of Bay Island Drainage Districts IMS Model 5012 LP Versi-Dredge shows how the district uses spray dredging to quickly desilt their canal network and reducing discharge costs. The material is deposit
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) are organising a webinar to discuss the findings of the SAVi Assessment of the Hondsbossche and Pettemer (H&P) sea dunes. The webinar on the Hondsbossche and Pettemer (H&P) s
The USACE Kansas City District has received significant funds to make repairs to river training structures on the Missouri River damaged over the years culminating in the floods of 2019. “I’m pleased to share that there is positive movement on Missouri River repairs to training structures. The Distr
Remu Oy’s Big Float E22 with Hyundai 220 is currently busy working on a very important restoration project in Lithuania. The Nemunas River and the Curonian Lagoon from Kaunas to Klaipeda in Lithuania form an inland waterway of international importance E41 – part of the Trans-European Transport Netwo
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced yesterday the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $132.3 million. The awarded work includes: Coastal Storm Risk Management Rockaway Inlet Beach Fill Subcontract (Coastal Protection, New York, $37.2 million); South Atlantic Division
The USACE Baltimore District received more than $97 million from the Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Biden on March 15, 2022. This will provide necessary funding for construction and operations and maintenance missions across the mid-Atlantic region, in
The latest IADC-CEDA Fact Sheet “Creating a Sustainable Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure” is now available in the IADC Knowledge Centre. Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure is the collection of waterborne works at coastlines, estuaries, rivers, canals and in port areas. In general, such works p
