Royal IHC has loaded the first truck at their shipyard in Kinderdijk and it is now on its way to their customer Lotos JSC. In total, 621.5 tons will be transported by road in the coming months, almost 150,000 km to drive. Shortly after arrival in Astrakhan, the installation and commissioning will st
The dredging work on the Tweed River entrance is almost complete. Around 150,000 cubic metres of sand has been dredged to maintain a clear and safe channel for boaties. Southern Gold Coast beaches have benefited from the project, with sand delivered offshore of Bilinga, Snapper Rocks, Duranbah, and
Rohde Nielsen A/S recently completed a beach nourishment project in Denmark. During the scheme, around 20.000 m3 of sand was placed for the coastal protection work in the Faxe Ladeplads coastal area. “The sand was pump ashore via sinker line and land pipes and levelled along the coastline. Our TSHD
BW Ideol and Ardersier Port Authority have signed a partnership agreement on securing access to the Scottish port for the production of its concrete floaters. Under the agreement, the parties will study the creation of a serial production line for floating wind substructures based on BW Ideol’s tech
Dredging work to restore safe navigation for boat users between the Manning River South Channel and Scotts Creek has now been completed. MidCoast Council’s contractor, Dredging Solutions finalised the dredging works this month, which saw a total of 33,010 cubic metres of marine sand removed from the
Michigan-based environmental services firm Taplin Group, LLC yesterday presented a video of the dredging operations at Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve. The project involves restoration of the nature preserve that was polluted from foundry sands and metal contamination, in addition to being heavily ove
Dare County, NC, continues to work on the beach nourishment projects that are planned to take place in Duck, Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills early next year. At the County Board of Commissioners meeting that was held at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, the board voted unanimous
$1 million in grants is now available to help repair, restore and sustain the state’s regional coastal areas under the State Government’s Securing the future of our regional coastline initiative. Director Climate Change, Coasts and Marine Neil McFarlane said that the Department for Environment and W
The most powerful cutter suction dredger (CSD) in the world ‘Spartacus’ has joined DEME’s fleet in Abu Qir, Egypt, to work on the largest dredging and land reclamation project in their history. The project includes: reclamation of 1,000 hectares of new land; deepening of the port’s approach channel
Boaties have benefited from a dredging campaign at Jacobs Well, with Hall Contracting having recently finished dredging more than 80,000m3 of material from the Calypso Bay Access Channel and Main Channel (North and South). Hall General Manager – Dredging, Mark McCurdy, said that the works had improv
Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has signed the Chief’s Report for the San Juan Metro Area Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Study, according to USACE. The signing of this report marks a crucial milestone and progresses the proposed project to Co
Port of London Authority (PLA) has just announced the first Thames call for the marine aggregate dredger CEMEX Go Innovation. “The vessel called at CEMEX Northfleet and benefited from the £3.5 million new dry discharge system installed under our PLA Investment Plan to secure Thames river traffic and
Construction of the Southsea Coastal Scheme – UK’s largest local authority-led coastal defence project – continues at good pace. According to the latest project update, reinforcement steel structure (Re-bar) has been fitted now to the western egress steps (steps intended for exit from the water only
It’s been over a year since San Miguel Corporation started the Tullahan-Tinajeros river system dredging and clean-up project. In this video, the company shares some of the key milestones this project has reached, thus far. “Keeping our rivers clean not only mitigates flooding, it also helps address
