The City of Cape Town is putting finishing touches on the R10 million Black River dredging project. The project, which started in September 2021, is being done as part of ongoing river maintenance programmes to improve inland water quality. According to the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate, t
California Senator Alex Padilla has secured over $20 million in federal funding for 11 projects across the Central Coast. These projects were included in the bipartisan FY 2022 appropriations package that passed the Senate last week. The bill is now headed to President Biden to be signed into law. “
Last week, local and state officials gathered in Hamilton Harbour, Ontario, to celebrate the successful completion of Stage 2 of the Randle Reef Remediation Project. This is a significant step to remove toxic substances and restore water quality and ecosystem health in the Hamilton Harbour Area of C
Van Oord has placed a new order with Demcon unmanned systems – this time for a larger unmanned, autonomous offshore platform. The vessel is suitable for challenging offshore conditions and weeklong survey operations at sea. “The use of these electric unmanned vessels enables Van Oord to make their o
The Town of North Attleboro, MA, has been awarded a grant for the town’s Ten Mile River dredging project. On February 11, Congressman Jake Auchincloss secured $1,5 million in funding – part of the House Appropriations Committee’s omnibus spending bill to supplement the costs of the dredging work. To
The use of nature and natural processes is an innovative way to increase water safety and create added value through nature development and recreation. IADC – International Association of Dredging Companies has released an exploratory study which was carried out to provide an initial inventory of th
On March 21, Van Oord will be hosting a livestream event on how to Empower Nature and Communities. “We are focusing on how Nature Based Solutions can protect climate vulnerable coastal communities in order to secure a sustainable future for them,” said Van Oord. The keynote speaker will be Lisa Hart
Barnstable County newest dredge, the Cod Fish II recently completed annual project for the Town of Dennis, dredging of the Sesuit Harbor (MA). Sesuit Harbor is one of the only low tide accessible harbors on the bay side of Cape Cod and is of critical importance to the surrounding community. Mobilizi
Oiltech Dredging Equipment from the Netherlands has successfully delivered another gold mining dredger with all the associated equipment, this time to a customer in Central Africa. According to Oiltech, this will soon be the fourth new machine purchased for gold mining in a short time. This dredger
More than 30,000 tonnes of silt will be removed from Weston’s Marine Lake this week with a summer reopening on the horizon, said the North Somerset Council. The Council was given the go-ahead to begin dredging the lake on Thursday, March 17. “Dredging work will start this week and will take about tw
HAL Holding has announced an intended all-cash voluntary public offer of €32.50 per ordinary share for all issued ordinary shares in the capital of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. HAL has been a shareholder of Boskalis since 1989 and currently holds 46.2 per cent of the issued Boskalis shares. The o
Michigan-based Walsh Service Solutions recently received a $5.98 million contract from the Army Corps to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Cleveland Harbor. Dredging of harbors like Cleveland’s ensures accessible depths for large vessels, the continued flow of commodities across
The Department for Infrastructure and Transport – a department of the South Australian Government – has just released this very interesting video on the Port Macdonnell Dredging Project. After much careful consultation, a large scale dredging project in South Australia’s hugely popular Port Macdonne
Dredging equipment was moved into the Port of Iberia a couple of days ago by Magnolia Dredge & Dock – starting the process of dredging the first seven miles from the port to the Intercoastal Canal. “The deepening of the Acadiana Gulf of Mexico Access Channel is well underway,” said Craig Romero, Por
