Gov. John Bel Edwards yesterday joined the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) along with federal, state, and local officials for a groundbreaking ceremony on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection system. The project will provide 100-year hurricane and storm surge pr
Dredging Solutions Pty Ltd has just announced that dredging is underway at Farquhar Inlet to restore the safe boat navigation between Scotts Creek and Manning River South Channel. Dredging of navigational channels within the Manning River at Farquhar Inlet will ensure navigational access to the jett
DSC Dredge of Reserve (LA) has just delivered a brand-new 18-inch Shark Class Dredge to RIGID Constructors. The Louisiana-based RIGID is an industrial construction company that provides services to clients in both the public and private sectors. With decades of experience, the company is expanding t
The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El Sisi, has discussed ways of benefiting from Jan De Nul Group’s expertise in the fields of maritime in the Red and Mediterranean seas. This subject was on the table during President’s recent meeting with Jan Pieter De Nul, the company’s CEO. According to Egypt’
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has received a $1 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to expand the implementation of living shorelines in Rural Coastal Virginia to reduce coastal erosion and benefit water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. The grant
NY State Senator Alexis Weik is calling for the emergency dredging of Browns River in Sayville. At a news conference last Thursday, she talked about the need to clear the waterway of accumulated silt and runoff to make it deeper and flow freely for years. Also, Senator Weik started a petition asking
Another wall lift, under the Southsea Coastal Scheme, was completed last week to connect the rear steel pile line to the old city walls at the caponier, reports the Portsmouth City Council. After the concrete has set and the formwork (structure built to act as mould for the concrete to be poured int
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) CEO, Adam Azim, inspected the progress on the Sh. Bilehfahi Harbour development program yesterday. “We have commenced installation of precast concrete blocks required for the construction of the quay wall of Sh. Bilehfahi Harbour,” the company said i
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will hold a virtual information session on July 28, via Zoom, to discuss the upcoming White Creek maintenance dredging project in Sussex County. Since White Creek was last dredged in the early 2000s, shoaling has increasingly imp
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is citing a Mobile dredging equipment manufacturer after investigation into 22-year-old worker’s death. Earlier this year, the apprentice atop a crane bridge 30 feet in the air suffered fatal injuries when he became caught in a crane trolley’s drive shaft, a traged
Andreas Scheuer, the German Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and his Czech counterpart Karel Havlíček have inked an agreement on navigation of the Elbe River. “Elbe is an important European river for which the Czech Republic and Germany hold responsibility. In short, we will put Elb
Dredging work is currently underway in the Oshawa Harbour. Port Authorities in the Great Lakes are required to conduct maintenance dredging to ‘Seaway depth’ of 8.2 m (27 ft.) ensure vessel access to port. The Port of Oshawa experiences a high degree of siltation resulting in the need for regular dr
The Baker-Polito Administration has awarded more than $5 million in grants to nine dredging projects through the Massachusetts Dredging Program, established to promote the strength and sustainability of the Commonwealth’s coastal harbors through support of saltwater dredging. The Dredging Program aw
Reach Dredging Limited, a division of the Rashmi Group, recently won a contract for the conservation and management of Wular Lake in the Kashmir Valley. Spanning over an area of 130 sq. km, the lake plays a crucial role in the hydrographic system of the Kashmir Valley by acting as an absorption basi
