The Louisiana CPRA yesterday announced the start of dredging activities on the Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation and Terracing Project in Cameron Parish. Using 1.9 million cubic yards of sediment pumped from the Gulf of Mexico, the area will see the addition of 308 acres of marsh. The restoration proje
Last year, Royal IHC and Weeks Marine Inc. entered into a contract for the engineering and equipment delivery for the 6,540m³ TSHD R.B. Weeks, currently under construction at the Allanton premises of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Florida. This is an identical vessel to the Magdalen that w
After announcing its candidacy for the construction of an energy island in the Danish North Sea earlier this week, DEME is now separating from its parent company CFE by summer 2022. CFE’s board of directors announced today in a press release its intention to split the group into two separate listed
Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has passed the 100 million TEU mark since it handled its first container in the 1960s. The 100th million TEU was loaded at Berth 8, the port’s newest facility and one of four berths at the UK’S largest container port capable of handling the world’s largest containe
UK’s Ardersier Port is set to be transformed into Europe’s first fully circular energy transition facility where old oil rigs will be recycled to make foundations for floating offshore wind farms. In the 1970s Ardersier – a vast and currently unused port 14 miles east of Inverness – was one of the l
UK’s wet civil engineering firm, Land & Water, has extended its offering to the North of England as it opens up a new regional hub in Newcastle upon Tyne as part of a continued period of growth. The new hub, which opened this month and will become Land & Water’s eighth location in the UK, […]
A ceremonial groundbreaking event was held earlier this week to kick off the dredging project of New River Bayou from its juncture at Bayou Grand Goudine to the weir east of the City of Gonzales. The project is expected to boost drainage and flood relief for a large part of the east bank of Ascensio
Lakeside Chautauqua, located in Lakeside, Ohio, yesterday released this very interesting video named ‘Lakeside Western Shoreline Preservation’. In the video, Matt Kovach, restoration ecologist at GEI Consultants, presents possible processes and design considerations to address erosion along Lakeside
Liebherr has just released this amazing video about their R 954 dredging excavator, working on a dredging project in the Black Sea. By the Black Sea, the engineering unit of Samsun, Turkish port town, uses the Liebherr pontoon excavator to dredge the seabed. Using a boat equipped with a hold that op
Three consortia of maritime companies and knowledge institutions have received a total of 52.9 million from the Maritime R&D subsidy scheme of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Royal IHC is part of two of these consortia: Menens consortium – aimed at developing adaptive solutions to accelerate
The Government of Bangladesh has already bought 38 dredgers and now they are starting a process to buy more than 42, United News of Bangladesh reports. This action is being conducted under the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority’s (BIWTA) plan to save the rivers by reducing and protecting th
Investigations are underway to trial a method of sand nourishment at Maroochydore Beach, Sunshine Coast Council said. The technique, called nearshore nourishment, has not been used on the Sunshine Coast before and involves importing sand from outside the region and placing it in the water, about 300
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District and its contractor, Michigan-based Great Lakes Docks and Materials, L.L.C., have completed substantial construction of a beneficial use of dredged sediment placement area in Ashtabula Harbor. According to the Corps, this phase of the project include
Earlier this year, International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) started a new webinar series presented by dredging experts of Boskalis, Jan De Nul and Van Oord. Each webinar focused on a high-profile dredging project like the ones in Manila Bay, The Philippines, Brisbane Airport Dredging a
