Michigan EGLE has announced a 28-day public comment period for the proposed removal of the Restrictions on Dredging Activities Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) from the Manistique River Area of Concern (AOC). The Manistique River was declared an AOC in the mid-1980s, consistent with the Great Lakes W
Associated British Ports (ABP) has invested a further £4 million in its Port of Garston, Liverpool. To support both current and future business, the Port of Garston has increased its local workforce by 25%, invested in new equipment, and welfare facilities, and undertaken a significant dredge campai
Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise has secured $1.5 million in the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee bill for deepening the Port Fourchon Belle Pass Channel. According to Scalise, dredging the Port Fourchon Channel will reduce the transportation cost of servicing offsh
Connecticut Senators Murphy and Blumenthal announced earlier this week that $2.8 million in funding for the dredging of the Saugatuck River has been secured in the Fiscal Year 2022 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill. “Dredging the Saugatuck River is an essential project that will impro
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) has announced $1 million in funding towards a near-term dredging solution to support key Delta channels within the Fraser River communities, focusing on Ladner Harbour and Gunderson Slough. Dredging is the careful removal of sediment and debris from the bot
Steder Group, on behalf of Neptune Marine, has shipped a dipper pontoon from Rotterdam to the Caribbean. Besides the 350 MT pontoon, shipment included a complete CAT 390 excavator of 120 MT. “A flawless execution thanks to all parties involved, RHB as stevedores and SAL/Jumbo as carrier,” Steder sai
Remu, a Finnish manufacturer of Screening buckets, Combi screening plants and Big Float amphibious excavators, has just introduced the Big Float E35 – their largest amphibious excavator to date. Equipped with additional pontoons, anchoring legs, stern drive units, custom built counterweight with aux
Apex Envirocare has just released this very interesting video named ‘Dredging in the Avon Valley, Western Australia’. Comprising a collection of towns such as Northam, New Norcia, Toodyay and York, the Avon Valley is home to many unique communities. Communities that over the past decade have steadil
The Town of Weymouth, MA, has been awarded $102,980 in EEA’s Dam and Seawall Program funds for FY 2022 to fund Phase 2 of the Fort Point Road Coastal Infrastructure Resilience Project. According to the Town, this will continue work from phase 1 for which the town received $129,557 from a Municipal V
VMI, Inc., the Oklahoma based dredge manufacturer, has just launched the VMI Edge Dredge Calculator – the most up-to-date app geared for the dredging industry. The app contains a slurry calculator section for quickly converting data into useful information such as cubic yards or meters per hour, to
Environmental groups including Cape Fear River Watch, North Carolina Wildlife Federation and Defenders of Wildlife have filed a lawsuit over a new dredging policy at harbors on the Carolina coast. They claim that federal authorities are using “flawed and incomplete” data to back up their activities.
The USACE’s Portland District released this amazing photo of the hopper dredger Yaquina last week. The vessel and crew were on their way from St. Helens, Oregon, to the Vancouver Bar when the photo was taken. The Yaquina will spend a little while dredging there before heading to the Oregon coast (on
Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), International Container Terminal Services’ (ICTSI) subsidiary operating at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq, recently handled its three millionth TEU. The milestone was achieved during the handling of Evergreen’s Ever Uranus and coincided with BGT’s seventh year of operatio
Less manual handling means more workplace safety for a vessel’s crew, and on Van Oord’s dredger Vox Amalia this is being provided by the debris removal platform. The automated debris removal platform now safely removes debris that will fall onto the deck after recovering the draghead of a trailing s
