Alabama’s seaport modernization program began construction last week to deliver a deeper and wider Mobile Ship Channel and improve the lower harbor turning basin by the year 2025. USACE has executed two construction contracts in a multi-phase, $365.7 million construction program engineered and desig
Col. Julie Balten, Los Angeles District commander, toured the Newport Beach dredging project earlier this week. During the visit, Col. Balten talked with onsite USACE personnel and contractors and learn more about the progress of the Newport Bay Harbor maintenance dredging and east jetty repairs. Wh
North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) has successfully wrapped up maintenance dredging at the Port of Weipa for another year. According to NQBP CEO, Nicolas Fertin, the dredge vessel TSHD Brisbane has left the Port of Weipa after completing the 22-day program. “I would like to commend all o
Work to strengthen riverside walls along Lincoln’s Foss Bank is underway, as part of a £6 million investment in the city’s flood defences. New steel piles are being driven into the riverbank upstream of Brayford Pool, reinforcing the existing defences and maintaining the area’s standard of protectio
Just two months after acquiring the Watchet Harbour Marina, the Marine Group is making great progress in returning this beautiful marina to its former glory. The company’s most manoeuvrable water injection dredger, the ‘CMS Innovation’ has been dredging twice a day with each tide for the last two we
A supervisor and one other worker died last week after they entered a dredging vessel’s ballast tank and collapsed in the confined space, CNA reports. The incident took place in Singapore’s eastern waters last Wednesday and was reported in an alert by the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council ye
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved funds to assist St. Johns County with partially restoring and rebuilding the sand dunes along portions of St. Johns County’s coastline that were damaged by Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma. The project is intended to enhance the dune sy
Julong Environment Technology has successfully delivered a new Julong CSD550 cutter suction dredger to a Chinese Government owned company – to be used in a dredging project in Jiangsu Province. The 21 meter long dredger is equipped with a 1.700hp Weichai marine engine for driving the dredger pump an
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has just announced that mobilization is underway for the Sunny Isles Beach (FL) renourishment project. The contractor, Eastman Aggregate Enterprises, LLC, will place 280,000 cubic-yards of beach-quality sand on approximately 2.3 miles of eroded
Since early 2020, Boskalis has been working on the marine infrastructure to connect an onshore natural gas-fired power plant to an offshore Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in El Salvador. This included the construction of a two-kilometer-long gas pipeline including a trenchless shore
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will early next month begin St. Joseph Harbor emergency dredging, expediting the process to restore critical navigation. USACE identified a shoal restricting the channel depth during this year’s annual channel survey. In some areas the restriction was as little as 13
The ongoing dredging work in the Ganga on a stretch between Ramnagar Fort and Malviya rail-road bridge is nearing completion, The Times of India reports. The piles of sand removed from the Ganga has helped create a sand island that could be used to host various activities. “We had started this proje
Since early May, Mackley has been busy carrying out coastal maintenance works in the Dorset town of Christchurch. Mackley arrived on-site to set up compound areas on 4 May. During the course of project execution, the crews will work with the most suitable tide levels – meaning work could take place
The final community conversation webinar on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project will take place on Tuesday, May 25 at 6:00 p.m. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers recently released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and the LA TIG released its Draft Restoration Plan on the Mid-Bar
