The Port of São Francisco do Sul, one of the largest ports in Brazil and Latin America, has just released this beautiful video about their latest dredging project. Late 2020, Van Oord was contracted to perform maintenance dredging works in order to keep this maritime hotspot accessible. Under the pr
The Philippine Coast Guard is moving to contain some 3,000 liters of oil that was spilled off the Manila South Harbor after a Filipino cargo ship collided with a foreign-flagged dredger this morning. In a release, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) disclosed that the MV Palawan Pearl collided with th
The biggest excavation project in Denmark has now begun, Femern A/S reports. “We have started the excavation of the 18 kilometer tunneling between Rødbyhavn and Puttgarden in Germany, where the Femern tunnel will be located,” said Femern. “Our tunnel contractor FBC has inserted some of the world’s l
A major Potash producer recently awarded Ellicott a contract to supply a completely custom, electric, stainless steel bucketwheel dredge which encompasses advanced technology for the control, operating and electrical systems. The dredge hull, deckhouse, ladder and other structural items will be fabr
New York Governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, yesterday announced the start of construction of a $14 million resiliency project awarded to the Town of Newfane, Niagara County, through the Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Olcott Harbor is an important recreational harbor located on the southern
The Salomague Port in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, the Philippines, is now ready to welcome bigger cruise ships with reinforced concrete (RC) Platform Back-Up Area and RC Pier Extension. Government officials, led by DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade, will host the project inauguration ceremony today. The upgradi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District has just released a photo of the Dredge Essayons dredging the Columbia River at Longview, Washington. During the dredge season of 2020, the vessel successfully removed over 2,000,000 CY of sediment from the Columbia River. This year, the Essayons w
The Charleston Harbor is on track to have the deepest port on the east coast and harbor some of the world’s largest ships. Large container ships, even super-post-Panamax vessels like the 1300-foot-long CMA CGM Marco Polo which cruised into Charleston’s harbor this May during high tide, will soon hav
Callan Marine is currently serving as the prime contractor to the Texas Department of Transportation for a maintenance dredging project located at the Bolivar Ferry Terminal. The project consists of the removal of 369,000 cubic yards of material and returning the landings to the required depth of 22
Damen Shipyards Group has concluded a license agreement with US-based Conrad Industries under which the Conrad Shipyard LLC will construct two Damen Multi Cats 3013 for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation. The two vessels covered by this agreement will be the first Damen Multi Cats to be built in
The 20,000 TEU containership Ever Given is finally leaving the Suez Canal. A formal settlement was agreed earlier this week and the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said that the vessel would be allowed to sail today. The vessel, one of the world’s largest container ships, had become wedged diagonally acr
Cameron County officials have just announced that the beach renourishment project at Isla Blanca Park is fully finished now. The work was performed as a joint effort between the Texas General Land Office (GLO), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cameron County and the City of South Padre Island. This
Onsite activities for the planned dredging of boating navigational channels within the Manning River at Farquhar Inlet will begin next week, according to MidCoast Council. Dredging Solutions will undertake the work on behalf of Council and the team will start mobilisation of the dredge, pipeline and
A ceremony was held at Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld recently to mark the naming of the first of a new model in the Damen Shoalbuster range. The ultra-shallow, Shoalbuster 3514 SD was christened Brutus by Mrs Mandy Heere-van Eijk, on behalf of the tug and workboat company Herman Sr. To mark the occasi
