The U.S. EPA has announced the release of a Dredged Material Decision Tool to help federal, state, Tribal and local partners compare sustainable alternatives for sediment disposal while accounting for economic, environmental, and social impacts. The DMDT combines EPA expertise with insights from st
Maine Senator Susan Collins announced yesterday that $5,850,000 in funding she requested for the maintenance dredging of Searsport Harbor was included in the Fiscal Year 2022 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill. The bill was passed by the Appropriations Committee yesterday by a vote of
DEME has taken delivery of its giant new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus from Dutch shipyard Royal IHC. According to DEME, the Spartacus sets a new benchmark in the global dredging market – this is the world’s largest and most powerful self-propelled cutter suction dredger and the first able
Manson Construction and Keppel AmFELS held a keel laying ceremony for the hopper dredger Frederick Paup on August 2. The new dredger will be the largest self-propelled hopper dredger in the USA. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries from the shipyard and Manson, including the vessel’s namesake,
The 2021 dredging season has officially begun, the New Jersey Department of Transportation reports. This time lapse video shows a dredging boat being lowered into the Absecon Creek Channel in Absecon Bay where sediment shift from storm events have made the channel unnavigable. Dredging in this area
ERMA FIRST is bringing the world’s smallest and easiest to install ballast water treatment (BWT) system to the international market through its acquisition of US firm oneTANK LLC. oneTANK has developed a small scale innovative, low-cost, IMO Revised G8 Code and United States Coast Guard compliant sy
The USACE Memphis District and mechanics at Ensely Engineer Yard are busy repairing the Wilmington District’s flagship dredger – the Currituck. The Currituck, the largest USACE’s dustpan dredger, works in the shallow-draft ocean bar channels along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and can deposit all tha
The USACE Baltimore District awarded a $15.7 million contract for berm reconstruction in Ocean City to Weeks Marine on August 2. Weeks crews will be using sand from Weaver Shoal, located more than 7 miles offshore of Ocean City on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), under an agreement signed this spr
The USACE Jacksonville District has announced the award of a $40 million construction contract for the Miami-Dade County erosion control and hurricane beach renourishment project. The Jacksonville District awarded the contract on July 30 to Continental Heavy Civil for $40,486,000, for the Miami-Dade
The Member of Parliament for Naparima (Trinidad and Tobago), Rodney Charles, is calling on Minister of Works and Transport, Rohan Sinanan, to immediately order the dredging and desilting of the Guaracara River. In his latest release, Mr. Charles said that this work would bring relief to the 300 home
Following the works carried out by Van Oord, another 50 hectares of beaches will be made available to tourists in the Eforie area, Romania. Van Oord was contracted by Administratia Bazinala de Apa Dobrogea-Litoral (ABA-DL) in 2019 to design and build new groynes and beaches. Under the project, the p
Dredging works on the Sea Canal in the Gulf of Ob are in full swing now. At the moment, seven giant dredging vessels are busy working on the waterway. The main contractor is Mordraga LLC. The first five dredgers arrived to the site on July 19, IAA PortNews reports. The agreement on reconstruction of
Yaroslavsky Shipyard launched a non-self-propelled dredging vessel of Project RDB 66.42М yesterday. According to the press center of the Yaroslavl Region Government, this is the first vessels of this type built by Yaroslavsky Shipyard. “The shipyard has a great technological, logistic and labour pot
Rohde Nielsen A/S finished a maintenance dredging project in Gothenburg harbor recently. The project was particularly tricky because a very fine layer had to be removed over a large area in the port. “To do this work, we used Heimdal R and 2 self-propelled barges, Gere R & Freke R, for the areas wit
