Bunnal Tech has just released this unbelievable video showing a man constructing a dredge pipeline with his bare hands. Hydraulic dredgers work by sucking a mixture of dredged material and water from the channel bottom. The amount of water sucked up with the material is controlled to make the best m
Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) funds stemming from an oil spill incident will be funding a Louisiana Master Plan marsh creation and habitat project this year. The Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office (LOSCO) reported this today at the monthly meeting of the Coastal Protection and Rest
The Ukulhas Harbour development project at Alif Alif Atoll in the Maldives is nearing completion. Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) today revealed that the work on the design and build of the island harbor quay wall and jetty construction is well underway and currently at 92 percent
The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) removed 3.6 million cubic meters of material in 2021 through the dredging operations with its own fleet. According to Interfax-Ukraine, the volume of similar work was 1.1 million cubic meters of material in 2020. “The volume of dredging works during 2021, car
Following concerns raised by an ecological activist group, the Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig has recommended a pause on the dredging works on the German side of the immersed tube Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark. An emergency application was made last week by Aktionsbündnis g
Federal, state, and local officials gathered yesterday to mark the signing of a Project Partnership Agreement for the Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico project. The agreement allows for federal investment into the vital levee system protecting both Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. The Morganza to the
Baker Design Consultants (BDC) – a Freeport, Maine based Civil, Marine, and Structural Engineering consulting firm – has joined GEI Consultants (GEI). Under the direction of Barney Baker, PE, BDC has served public and private sector clients since 1996 on waterfront projects that include pier facilit
National Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited, has just announced that maintenance dredging is underway at the Port of Brighton. Over the next few weeks, Jan De Nul’s trailing suction hopper dredger Bartolomeu Dias will stay at Brighton, dredgi
The latest Suez Canal expansion project is expected to be completed after two years of work – in July 2023, said Osama Rabie, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian President, approved the widening and deepening of the southern part of the Suez Canal in May 20
ML Dredging recently completed another project in Poole Harbour, dredging of the prestigious Salterns Marina. According to Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC), dredging operations at Salterns Marina commenced in late November 2021 and continued until last week. The works were carried out by the dredge
Crews have been working to assess the damage at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor, CA, in the wake of Saturday’s tsunami that struck in the early morning hours after a massive underground volcano erupted in the South Pacific. As a result of the strong tsunami surge, the Santa Cruz Power District’s d
The City of Fremantle and Fremantle Ports are proposing to undertake up to 150,000 cubic metres of maintenance and capital dredging from a portion of Fremantle Ports deep water entrance channel and nourish Port Beach with the dredged material. The proposal footprint is 60.27 hectares, located 1.6 ki
Timmerman Industrial Repairs BV performed the technical installation of a Heila crane on board the 106m trailing hopper suction dredger (TSHD) Anchorage recently. This job included the modification of the already existing pedestal to fit the base of the crane. According to Timmerman, “in addition we
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District have partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to use reclaimed dredge material from the Altamaha River to create a new bird island this month. The island, located at the mouth of Altamaha Sound, is made completely from reclaimed d
