The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District has wrapped up the Great Lakes Inspection Tour (GLINT) with visits to Greenwood Beach in Evanston, Illinois. The Greenwood scheme is part of the WRDA Section 1122 beneficial use of dredged material pilot project. Under the pilot program, the materia
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) of Louisiana has just announced that good progress is being made on West Grand Terre barrier island restoration project in Jefferson Parish. According to CPRA, two dredges are being used to restore over 530 acres of beach, dune, and back-barrier ma
A multi-million pound flood defence designed to cope with a one-in-200-year storm and rising sea levels caused by climate change could be built to protect the south east of Cardiff. Plans for the £25m coastal protection scheme, on the banks of the River Rhymney, have been released by Cardiff Council
Each year at its annual Summit, the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) presents Environmental Excellence Awards, recognizing projects that demonstrate environmental awareness. This year the winners were announced during the opening ceremony of the virtual Summit held from June 15 to 17. WEDA’s Envi
Vosta LMG successfully delivered a T6 cutter head and a T8 cutter head to its customer earlier this year. “Vosta LMG’s expertise – acquired over more than a century – and the workmanship of Vosta LMG Zhuhai’s production facility makes it possible to provide high quality products to many customers wo
USACE and the Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) have signed a strengthened partnership on safety and discussed ways, through shared understanding and commitment, to create and sustain an injury-free workplace and safety-first culture for the men and women of the dredging an
Corpus Christi Mayor, Paulette M. Guajardo, and the City Council yesterday awarded a construction contract to Cayo LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas for the Boat Basin Dredging and McGee Beach Breakwater Repairs. Funding for this Council District 1 project comes from the FY 2021 Seawall CIP in the amount of
Dredging has officially started in the South Channel of the Broadwater – part of Gold Coast Waterways Authority’s (GCWA) wider Seaway dredging project. “We’re improving navigational access to Gold Coast waterways by dredging the Gold Coast Seaway entrance and the adjacent North and South Channels,”
The registration for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2021 is now live! The event, to be held on 26 & 27 October in Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands, will attract thousands of offshore professionals and hundreds of exhibiting companies. Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) looks forwa
Royal IHC has just released these amazing photos of TAM’s Beaver 45, taken during the dredging works at DSW Israel’s carnelian pools. The IHC-build cutter suction dredger performs completion work for DSW’s carnalite harvesting work and transports them to a place where DSW harvesters can easily take
Using natural elements to protect a vulnerable coastline against heavy storms: Jan De Nul calls it nature-based solutions. In the Belgian coastal municipality of Knokke, their trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Pedro Álvares Cabral brought about 980,000 m³ of dredged sand to the beaches to raise
Van Oord has officially started with the construction of some 2.4 kilometres of quays and earth-retaining walls in the Princess Amalia Harbour, commissioned by Port of Rotterdam. “Together with our partners HOCHTIEF Netherlands and Ballast Nedam, we will work on the connection to the existing quay w
In mid-April, the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Willem van Oranje arrived to Remontowa Shiprepair Yard S.A. for class renewal. Vessel is owned by Boskalis, the company’s partner from the Netherlands. The TSHD Willem Van Oranje is one of the first dredging vessels in the world, which is powe
The naming ceremony of the Damen cutter suction dredger (CSD500) Yantra took place in Ruse, Bulgaria, a few days ago. The CSD is part of an important modernisation programme of the Danube dredging fleet, and will have the prominent task of keeping the Danube at the required depth. The naming ceremon
