Radio Holland and Neptune Marine have signed an agreement for an extensive navigation and communication package for hull number NP-554 – a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). According to their official statement, besides the equipment, Radio Holland will also take care of the installation and c
Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC) have just announced that Jenkins Marine Ltd is conducting dredging operations at Cobbs Quay Marina and Davis’s Boatyard in Holes Bay. Cobbs Quay at Hamworthy in Poole Harbour is one of MDL Marinas Ltd ‘s biggest marinas, totalling just under 1,200 boats. As reported
USACE is inviting the comments on the Salem River Maintenance Dredging Plan. Under the project, USACE will utilize small split hull, shallow draft hopper dredges to remove spot shoals of predominantly sand grain sized sediment annually, or as equipment availability allows, from a segment of the Sale
Earlier this year, Boskalis Westminster Ltd completed a £7.5 million beach renourishment project in Bournemouth and Poole. Under the project, around 350,000m³ of sand was delivered at eight areas from Southbourne to Poole, making them more climate resilient. Some 1.3km of sinkerline (underwater) pip
Land & Water won a contract to complete dredging works on the River Wey and River Thames recently, on behalf of the Environment Agency. As part of two separate packages, the project team has undertaken the following works at three primary sites: Wey Navigation, Newark Bridge, near Ripley. Works cons
In order to increase the capacity of Klaipėda Seaport, the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications will allocate an additional EUR 10 million for dredging on the Port’s external and internal navigation channels. Once the project is implemented, the depth of the external channel of Klaipė
USACE has released the Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment for the Miami-Dade County, Florida, Coastal Storm Risk Management Study. The four-year, $3 million study considers the feasibility of implementing engineering alternatives to manage coastal storm risks along the
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized its cleanup/dredging plan to address waterbodies of the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Site in Gibbsboro, Lindenwold, and Voorhees, New Jersey. According to EPA, the final decision – in the form of a Record of Decision (ROD) – calls
New Damen cutter suction dredger CSD500 was successfully launched this week near the capital of Paraguay, Asunción. The dredger was shipped fully disassembled. It sailed from Antwerp to Montevideo, Uruguay, before transferred to a river barge and transported up the Paraguay River. The modular dredge
Suffolk County has awarded H&L Contracting out of Hauppauge, NY, the contract for the dredging of the channel into Silver Eel Cove. The contractor is expected to mobilize to the site on Wednesday, November 17, and work around the clock. A total of 1.700 cubic yards will be removed. With a production
Bechtel has been selected by the U.S. Navy as one of five teams that will compete for work on a multi-year program to construct new dry docks and shipyard infrastructure at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Puget Sound in Washington state. The dry docks and associated infrastructure will service current an
Boskalis has closed a busy third quarter. In line with expectations, quarterly revenue was higher than the quarterly average for the first half year, said the company. In the past quarter, projects continue to be affected to a greater or lesser extent by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I
MOTAS Dredging Solutions has engineered, produced and delivered a set of Fenders for DEME’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus. The Fenders are custom made for the CSD Spartacus and exist of several components that can be mounted on the vessel but can just as easily be dissembled. The Fenders sa
Work to protect Mersea Harbour from erosion is officially underway. The Harbour is protected by islands that have been washing away for many years due to the rise in sea levels and storm wave action, increasingly so in recent years. The project will see 98,000m3 of dredged sand and gravel from Harwi
